Syston Cable Technology has a strong commitment to meet all applicable National, European and International regulations. We have developed processes to continuously monitor legislative changes and we work with customers and suppliers to ensure compliance with legislation, standards, and requirements. These include, amongst many others, RoHS and REACH. Syston Cable Technology provides third-party RoHS Certification, providing sound traceability and strict enforcement.

What is RoHS?

RoHS has its roots in the European Union back in 2003. The goal of RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) is to reduce the environmental effect and health impact of electronics. The legislation’s primary purpose is to make electronics manufacturing safer at every stage of an electronic device’s life cycle.

The Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) holds electrical and electronic equipment companies directly responsible for the chemical compliance of their products. This means all products must conform to strict standards, provide extensive compliance documentation, and ensure that electrical and electronic products do not contain lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs), and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) above the legal threshold. Manufacturers, owners, retailers, and importers alike need to ensure that their products comply in order to be distributed and sold in the market.

Health and environmental regulations such as REACH and RoHS require immediate action by retailers, manufacturers, and distributors, who need to ensure that their products comply in order to be sold. 

Besides Cables is RoHS Compliant, Syston Cable Technology’s RhinoPac™ packaging is one of the most environmentally-friendly packaging options currently available to linear products – providing a less waster and more recyclability package design methods to achieve presentation, usability, or environmental goals.

When compared with other packaging methods, RhinoPac™ packaging allows the greatest opportunity to use recyclable, reusable, compostable, and reclaimed materials. Compost it, recycle it, or sell it. When you use RhinoPac™ packaging, you have disposal choices beyond just the dumpster.

All Syston Cable Technology products feature RoHS Compliant, which is free from hazardous heavy metals and toxic chemicals that could make you sick, so you can rest easy knowing it doesn’t contain hazardous substances that could harm you, your employees, or your customers (more information about this is in our Green Leaf Label).