IPC Eagle understands the importance of making sure our products are eco friendly from start to finish. We make sure all aspects of the product life cycle involve an integrated approach to safeguard the environment. We look at who we source our materials from, how we transport those materials to our plants, the electricity that is used to transform and assemble our products, how we package and ship our products, and how our materials can be recycled and recovered at the end of their life cycle, and most importantly how our machines operate.
PRODUCT COMPOSITIONWhen manufacturing our products, IPC utilizes eco-compatible materials and is only choosing suppliers whose attention to environmental protection is in line with our standards. A significant part of the raw materials used to produce the IPC products are recycled, for example plastic materials, discarded in the printing phase. Moreover IPC adheres to the local and national regulations which forbid the usage of dangerous substances such as: lead, mercury, vanishing chrome and two retardants of flame poly-brominates.
RAW MATERIALS AND COMPONENT TRANSPORTTransport of materials weighs heavily upon the environment. IPC carries out an attentive logistic policy and an efficient and eco compatible transport in all its plants. For example we get raw materials from local suppliers. 50% of the purchased goods is supplied inside a range of 120 miles. IPC is also very attentive in organizing the deliveries in the most rational possible way to reduce the environmental pressure generated during the transport.
TRANSFORMATION AND ASSEMBLYEnergy saving is surely one of the fundamental ways to demonstrate the commitment to a sustainable industrial process. IPC keeps constant control of the consumption of electric energy for the transformation and the assembling of raw materials with the aim to identify all possible actions to decrease the usage of non renewable energy resources. In recent years most of the plants producing machinery for Industrial cleaning has been able to reduce the electric energy consupmtion by 6% (kWh per machinery).
PACKAGINGPackaging materials produce a high percentage of environmental waste, which is a social and above all ecological problem. For this reason IPC utilizes up to 75% of recycled materials to pack its products and is constantly looking for ways to reduce the usage of packaging realized from virgin raw materials. The objective is to recycle and recover most possible material, by reducing the production of general waste.
PRODUCT USAGEIn an integrated approach to environment safeguard, it is important to project and produce machines and tools characterized by minimum energy, water and detergents consumption. To reduce energy consumption and safeguard the environment around us, IPC is using electric and endothermic engines that are more efficient and also studying innovative products, capable of giving us a real contribution to an eco-sustainable development.
END OF PRODUCT LIFE CYCLESAll IPC group plants have committed themselves in order to guarantee that collection and disposal activities assure the recovery and the recycling of most components, in order to reduce final waste in the disposal site. The design of IPC pays attention from the very beginning of the project to use the minimum number of components and typologies of raw materials to maximize the final recovery. IPC follows the local and national regulations that attributes to producers the responsibility of disposing electrical and electronic appliances.
THE IPC SYSTEM FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONCleaning for IPC doesn’t just signify a clean environment, but also a clean, respected and protected habitat. IPC is conscious of its role and its responsibility towards the community, the workers and the environment in which it operates. For this reason, even before that the international community took into consideration the necessity of an eco-sustainable development, the IPC companies projected quality products and efficient working processes always in the maximum respect of nature. IPC has defined its own ethicalenvironmental policy, which is attentive to minimize the impact of the life cycle of each of its products, from project to production, from transport to usage, until waste and recycling. An integrate approach, which represents for IPC the only way to follow for a concrete environmental protection. Fundamental prerequisites for all IPC activities are; conformity to all the rules regarding the environment compatibility with the hosting environment, personnel protection and safety of the working enironment, continuous improvement of the environmental performance to achieve specific goals.