Orbis and the environment
Orbis' field of business is to provide intelligent quality control, testing and measuring systems as well as advanced instrument and component solutions. Although the environmental impact of the operations is not significant, Orbis wants to do more than merely follow the environmental requirements of the customers and other interest groups. Orbis aims to honor the principles of sustainable development in all its operations.
We encourage and educate our employees in all organizational levels to consider the environmental charge in order to reach the goals of our Environmental Management System (EMS). The system is based on the ISO 14001 standard and has been implemented in Estonia and Finland. The system has not been certified.
Highlights of the Orbis Environmental Management System are:
- When choosing components, we consider supplier's ability to support our environmental goals and the availability of required substance descriptions.
- We have implemented all processes defined by the EU Directives regarding recycling of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and restriction of hazardous materials (RoHS).
- We aim to reduce the amount of waste in general and specifically, by increasing recycling, the amount of mixed waste in relation to energy and bio waste.
- We replace environmentally harmful disposable packing material with re-usable materials.
- Conference calls and video conferencing are used to reduce traveling to minimum, thus reducing also the environmental impact of traveling.
- We aim to minimize energy consumption of our office buildings.
