Flextronics continuously strives to improve its environmental performance and supports its customers through services, products and new technologies that have little impact on the environment.
Flextronics Quality Policy
Flextronics is focused on our customers' ultimate success and is committed to having the highest level of quality in the industry. It is our guiding principle to provide our external and internal customers with a level of quality and service that consistently meets or exceeds expectations through the following philosophies:
Continually maintaining and improving the effectiveness of our Quality Management System (QMS) - Periodic review of current quality policy and objectives to ensure its effectiveness and suitability.
Meeting or exceeding customer and organizational requirements - Constant striving for quality products that meet or exceed the customer's and/or organizational requirements.
Effectively communicating up and down the "Supply Chain" - Effective communication of quality policy and objectives to customers, suppliers and our employees.
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Hiring the best people in the industry - Training those people on our system and focusing those people on executing our processes flawlessly.
Creating and managing the best processes in the industry - These processes are documented and described in a comprehensive Quality Management System (QMS).
Aligning ourselves with the most competent base of suppliers available in the industry - The ability of our suppliers to provide us with quality goods and services is critical to our success. We will strive to achieve excellence in our supply chain with a common vision in the areas of quality, continuous improvement and excellence in customer service. |
Environmental Health and Safety Policy
Flextronics recognizes its responsibility as a corporate citizen.
Through our Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Management Systems:
- We will take the necessary measures to provide a safe and healthy workplace, protect the environment, conserve energy and natural resources, and prevent pollution and labor risks by applying appropriate management practices and technology.
- We will monitor and measure our performance and comply with all applicable EHS legal and other requirements we subscribe to maintain our status as a responsible corporate citizen in all locations in which we operate.
- We will periodically review our practices and procedures to address changing circumstances, and to continually improve our performance.
- We will openly make this policy available to all persons working for or on behalf of Flextronics, vendors, customers, and the public.
- We will promote and foster a culture where it is the responsibility of its management, persons working for or on behalf of Flextronics, and business associates to work in partnership for the benefit of the environment and the health and safety of all.
Environmental Directives
January 2003, the European Union (EU) adopted two environmental directives, RoHS and WEEE, to contribute to the protection of human health and environmentally sound recovery and disposal of electrical and electronic equipment.
RoHS stands for the Restriction of Hazardous Substances and bans the use of lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in electronical and electronic products. This directive was initiated July 1, 2006.
The WEEE directive, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, concentrates on the recyclability of electrical and electronic products, and states that, from 13 August 2005 onwards, manufacturers are required to finance the collection, treatment and recycling and recovery of all WEEE sold under their brand.
The RoHS and WEEE directives significantly impact the design and manufacture of electrical and electronic products. It is Flextronics’ policy to
- Adopt a progressive position to ensure that Flextronics clearly complies with any legal obligations the company has
- Ensure that we can appropriately support Flextronics' customers in their desire to do the same
- Realize whatever opportunities these directives may present in adding to our competitive competencies portfolio
- Execute these in the most cost-effective manner possible
Environmental Leadership
Flextronics' staff has many years of experience in green manufacturing and recycling. Flextronics' lead-free soldering initiative, for example, goes back to 1995. Since then the company has made significant contributions to the field of lead-free solder, in design, implementation and leadership. Since 1997, Flextronics has introduced multiple products (including printers, mobile phones etc.) for a number of leading branded technology companies using lead-free solder.
2002, Dr. Dongkai Shangguan, Director of Advanced Process Technology, Flextronics was awarded the Soldertec Lead-free Solder Award in appreciation of his long-term involvement in lead-free research and implementation. He also coordinates the EMS forum on Pb-free PCB assembly, which Flextronics initiated with other EMS companies.
Industry Consortia
Beside its membership role in the Soldertec organization, Flextronics is also involved with different industry associations such as IPC (Association Connecting Electronics Industries) and HDPUG, the High Density Packaging Users Group.
Furthermore, the company has been actively working on lead-free technology with universities including Tempere University of Technology in Finland, Swedish Institute for Metals Research, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology and Göteborg (Sweden) Chalmers University of Technology.