SpliceCom and the Environment

With the increase in environmental awareness over the last few years, more and more businesses are looking at ways in which they can improve the impact that they have on the environment. Aside from looking at our own working practices, this means that our customers are choosing products that will help them to reduce their own carbon footprint, whilst making ethical purchasing decisions based on their suppliers’ commitment to environmental management. This paper serves to outline the key ways in which SpliceCom are reducing their impact on the environment, and how maximiser and the PCS range of business telephones can enable our customers to do the same.

SpliceCom’s vision for a sustainable society

SpliceCom is committed to playing a leading role in helping establish a sustainable society. We recognise that the Earth is an irreplaceable asset and believe it is our duty of humankind to hand it over to future generations as we found it, if not in a better condition. Accordingly, SpliceCom promotes solid environmental management practices across all our products and business processes, with a particular focus on:

The prevention of global warming

SpliceCom’s efforts to prevent global warming are centred on the reduction of energy-orientated CO2 emissions, the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (other than CO 2) and the reduction of CO2 emissions associated with product logistics.

Control of chemical substances

SpliceCom’s desire is to have our customers use our products with confidence and to prevent the release of harmful substances into the environment. The European Union’s Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive bans the use of certain chemical substances in products. SpliceCom was an early supporter of this directive, placing the company at the forefront of efforts to hasten the emergence of a sustainable society. All our products are RoHS compliant.

Efficient utilisation of resources

SpliceCom strives to reduce the rate of waste generated, increasing the recycling of used products and achieving Zero Emissions. SpliceCom is focused on working with manufacturing partners who maintain Zero Emissions at their factories, laboratories and other subsidiaries. Zero Emissions is achieved when the quantity of waste for a landfill after treatment is equivalent to 1% or less of the total amount of waste discharged.

Internal impact:

• SpliceCom operates a remote working policy, allowing staff to work from home and so reduce unnecessary travel.

• SpliceCom operates a flexible working policy, reducing the amount of traffic in office locations.

• SpliceCom’s UK Account Management team members operate on a regional basis, further reducing unnecessary travel.

• SpliceCom encourages staff to recycle all appropriate materials, including plastics, paper, cards, drinking cups, batteries, etc.

• SpliceCom undertakes electronic communication wherever possible to ensure paper usage is reduced.

• SpliceCom manufacturers the majority of its products in the UK, its primary sales market, drastically reducing

• Strict processes for product stock control ensure that those products not manufactured in the UK are shipped by sea wherever possible, rather than flown into the UK.

• Use of voice conferencing and online meetings reduces the travel of SpliceCom staff.

• All manufacturing equipment used by SpliceCom’s contract manufacturers is energy-saving and highly-efficient, ensuring that a minimum amount of energy is used in the production process.

• Use of Just in Time (JIT) delivery of components reduces the packing materials of component stock.

• SpliceCom’s contract manufacturers uses a non-cleansing type of Printed Circuit Board (PCB) flux, ensuring that no toxic cleansers are used.

• SpliceCom’s contract manufacturers also ensures use of only machines and tools that require no toxic substances (RoSH compliant).

• SpliceCom have a fully documented procedure to conform to Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) requirements.

• Quick adoption of all RoSH requirements, removing any potentially hazardous materials in advance of legislative deadlines.

• All our environmental policies are reviewed on an annual basis, however, we pursue opportunities to further improve our environmental performance whenever they arise.

End-customer benefits:

maximiser’s Extension Anywhere capabilities allows companies to reduce the carbon footprint of employees traveling to and from the organisation.

Remote working allows information to be accessed from home, reducing the need to keep offices/campuses open late in the evening, thereby reducing energy usage.

maximiser has been designed to allow all 4 Series telephony platform modules to continue to be used within a 5 Series system when upgrading the solution, so reducing waste equipment.

SpliceCom’s PCS 570, PCS 560, PCS 410 & PCS 400 IP Phones provide display options whereby the length of time the display is lit on full-power can be specified. After this time, the back-light is, depending on the chosen setting, automatically dimmed or turned-off to ensure minimal power usage. In addition, the PCS 570 and PCS 560 IP Phones have a configurable Blank-At-Night/Dim-On-Idle option.

maximiser is designed for maximum reliability to ensure maximum life of the product.

SpliceCom’s PCS 60 & PCS 50 IP Soft Phones allow users to turn their laptop/PC into a fully functioning IP phone, eliminating the need for a physical desk phone and therefore reducing the amount of electronic equipment required. All maximiser solutions support 3 party and meet-me-conferencing as standard, reducing the need for travel.

All maximiser applications and software upgrades are provided as downloadable files, negating the need to manufacture, produce and burn CDs and DVDs and their associated packaging.

Who Are SpliceCom?

SpliceCom are the only British company to design, develop and manufacturer Unified Communications systems that deliver tangible business benefits for all types of company, irrespective of size. SpliceCom's maximiser product family combines the delivery of voice, video, IP TV and web enabled IT applications at the desktop within a single, scalable system.

SpliceCom cares about our planet. maximiser based Unified Communications solutions help companies to reduce their carbon footprint by enabling daily communications, conferencing and collaboration without the need for travel. All SpliceCom products comply with the directive for the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS) and the regulations for the disposal and recycling of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE).