Sustainability at Helvar Components

At Helvar Components, creating future-proof, sustainable and energy-saving technology and products, is a core part of our company blueprint. We are firmly committed to the principles of sustainable development. As a manufacturer of electronic products with a global supply chain, we are aware that our operations impact the environment and are consistently taking action to minimise said impacts. 

For more details and metrics on sustainability performance, please see our annual sustainability report here.

Our Policy

Helvar Components complies with all the relevant regulations in the company’s operating areas and strives to exceed the minimum legislative requirements set out for performance across environmental, social and governance aspects. 

We still strive to continuously improve energy efficiency in our processes and products.

Our full policy document is available online here. 

Documents

Sustainability Report 2023

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ISO 9001

Certificate

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ISO 14001 Certificate

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REACH Statement

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Environmental Product Information 2023

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Quality & Environmental Policy

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RoHS Declaration

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Code of Conduct

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EcoDesign

Ecodesign directives serves as a framework for environmental requirements in processes, which also includes lighting sector products. Helvar Components LED drivers and LED modules fulfil both functional and informational Ecodesign requirements.

Ecological product design is a method for developing more environmentally friendly products. Ecodesign measures differ depending on which environmental aspects are considered the most important in the particular case.

 

Handprint

Carbon handprint measures the positive impact of a product on the environment. Maximising Helvar Component’s carbon handprint is a key company target, and the Helvar handprint remains significantly bigger than the Helvar Components footprint. In R&D and manufacturing processes, improved energy efficiency is a very important design criterion for all Helvar Components products. 

Energy savings are a core outcome of our solutions and contribute to lower emissions, less use of natural resources, a cleaner environment and ultimately to reaching climate goals.

LCA

Helvar Components has consistently followed ecodesign principles and is systematically reducing the use of hazardous substances in its products. Helvar Components has also studied the most important environmental aspects of luminaire components through life cycle assessments, in order to be able to address ecodesign measures at the correct design phases.

A life cycle assessment (LCA) is a method for evaluating the environmental aspects of a product or service during its life cycle, based on relevant input resources and output wastes and emissions in different lifecycle stages. The total life cycle includes all the phases of a product’s life from raw material acquisition to the end-of-life. Helvar Components has conducted LCAs on our products in 2022, following ISO 14040, ISO 14044, EN 15804 and IBU Product Category Rules for Environmental Product Declarations.