Sustainable development

We commit ourselves to promote sustainable development every day. We act ethically and respectfully towards everyone. We also make sure that our suppliers act responsibly.

Sustainable development for Elgood

As part of the Addtech Group, we follow Addtech’s 2030 goals and three focus areas.

Sustainable
business

By offering technical solutions that promote the transition and development of our customers, we strive to create sustainable business.

Sustainable organisation

With equal and climate-friendly business, we want to create an attractive and sustainable organization.

Sustainable supply chain

With structured supplier monitoring, we promote good working conditions and responsible production for a sustainable supply chain.

Science based targets

Addtech has been working for many years integrating climate reduction actions that support our 2030 goals.

We have also committed to our group’s science-based goals and set the goal of being climate neutral for our own operations (areas of application 1 and 2) by 2030 and have prepared a roadmap for achieving climate neutrality in accordance with areas of application 1, 2 and 3 by 2050 at the latest.

Code of Conduct

As part of Addtech Group’s principles, Elgood’s operations are based on respect for employees, partners, the community and the environment. The core of all our operations is ethical and responsible operations at both strategic and operational levels.

We create added value for our stakeholders through respect, responsibility and high quality. We encourage our partners to make positive changes by following our ethical rules (Code of Conduct).

Elgood strives to maintain a transparent business climate and high business ethics. We value the safety and respect of everyone affected by our business. Because of this, we offer a Whistleblower service that can be used by anyone to report irregularities that goes against our values and Code of Conduct. To ensure anonymity for the whistleblower function, we use and external partner, Whistle B.

Follow the link below to get to the external whistleblower site. There you can find further information and choose more languages.

SCIP

From January 2021, articles placed on the EU market containing substances of very high concern will be submitted to SCIP database. Notification will be made for SVHC substances on the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) candidate list that are present in articles at concentrations above 0.1 % by weight.

Elgood is aware of this obligation and will comply with EU legislation. To ensure compliance with these requirements, we oblige our suppliers to comply with the requirements of the REACH Regulation.

Elgood is a distributor of electronics components and manufacturers’ representative. We do not manufacture components and have no direct knowledge of the composition of electronic components or the materials and substances used in the manufacturing processes. We actively collect material information from manufacturers about the products we supply.

Selection of suppliers

Elgood pays attention to quality, safety and environmental issues when selecting suppliers and we only represent manufacturers who are committed to them.

All SCIP-notifications are made to the best of our knowledge and are based on information received from our suppliers. We are constantly adding new products to the SCIP database, click on the link below to see the products that Elgood has reported to the SCIP database:

Conflict Minerals Statement

Elgood Oy is aware of the Dodd-Frank Consumer Protection Act, Section 1502 regarding Conflict Minerals.

“Conflict Minerals” refers to minerals or other derivatives (specifically, Tin, Tantalum, Tungsten, and Gold, alsoknown as 3TG) mined in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and in the adjoining countries where the revenues of the 3TG minerals may be directly or indirectly financing armed groups engaged in civil war resulting in serioussocial and environmental abuses. In July 2010, the United States passed the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform & Consumer Protection Act, section 1502(b) requiring all US public companies and their suppliers to disclose the chain of custody usage of conflict minerals.

While Elgood is not a U.S. listed company and is not subject to SEC reporting, Elgood Oy fully supports this legislation and its position is to avoid the use of conflict minerals.

Elgood Oy does not procure 3TG minerals directly from mines or smelters. The company is dependent on its suppliers as here Elgood Oy is considered ‘the customer’ and not the ‘manufacturer’ of the purchased products.

Elgood Oy has no reason to believe that the minerals used for production or functionality of the products that are in commercial offer of Elgood Oy may have originated from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and neighboring countries or were mined under inhuman conditions.

As an authorized distributor, we canprovide the Responsible Minerals Initiative Conflict Mineral Reporting Templates (RMI CMRTs) when made available by the manufacturers.

Elgood Oy is unable to make any claims of material content regarding the product another company manufactures or to certify to the RMI CMRT.

We hope that this declaration contains the information you require.

RoHS3

RoHS2-directive is EU’s Directive 2011/65/EU with amendment 2015/863/EU. RoHS2 stands for “Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical Equipment”. RoHS2-directive prohibits the use of hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment sold in EU from 1st. January 2013.

The Directive was updated in 2015 – Directive (EU) 2015/863 amended EU RoHS with 4 new Phthalates: DEHP, BBP, DBP and DIBP, which came in to force July 22th 2019.

Elgood is a distributor of electronics components and manufacturers’ representative, we do not manufacture components. We cannot provide RoHS3 certificate on behalf of our suppliers. Most of our manufacturers have taken the policy that RoHS3 certificate is only provided on request for part numbers. For ROHS3 certification, we can provide our customers a list of components supplied to them. To avoid unnecessary work for our manufacturers’ factories, we ask customers to tell us which products are still actively used.

Elgood pays attention to environmental issues when selecting suppliers, and we represent only manufacturers who are committed to complying with them.

For further information, please contact our Quality Specialist compliance@elgood.fi