United States Spring & Stamping Co., Inc. (US Spring) is committed to sourcing materials from companies that share our values around human rights, ethics and environmental responsibility.
US Spring supports the goals and objectives of Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which aims to prevent the use of conflict minerals that directly or indirectly finance or benefit armed groups in defined conflict areas. Conflict minerals include: columbite-tantalite (coltan) (i.e. tantalum), cassiterite (i.e. tin), gold, wolframite (i.e. tungsten) or their derivatives and could expand to include any other mineral or derivatives determined by the U.S. Secretary of State to be financing conflicts. The act requires companies to perform due diligence with respect to the sourcing of conflict minerals and to file annual reports relating to use of conflict minerals.
US Spring is committed to using conflict-free minerals in its products and complying with the conflict minerals legislation through performance of due diligence and reporting obligations required under the Act.
Sincerely,
Richard Lorenz President
Under the definition of the REACH regulations EC1907/2006, US Spring is a producer of “articles”. REACH requires article suppliers to inform recipients if an article contains a Substance of Very High Concern (SVHC) in excess of 0.1% by weight. The EU announced on June 27th, 2018 an updated list of the candidate 191 SVHC chemicals. The list can be found at:
http://echa.europa.eu/chem_data/authorisation_process/candidate_list_table_en.asp
In addition to changes made in Annex XVII fall within this list of SVHC: Per COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 276/2010 of 31 March 2010
Based on the material content certifications provided by US Spring’s suppliers, none of these substances are present in the materials we use in our products, including packing and shipping materials. Therefore, US Spring’s products do not contain any of these SVHC in excess of 0.1% by weight.
US Spring will continue to comply with REACH requirements and notify customers of any change in article content.
Sincerely,
Richard Lorenz President
A Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive:
A European Union directive: Directive on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment.
The Directive on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment commonly referred to as the “Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive”, or “RoHS” (pronounced as “Row-Haas’) was adopted in February 2003 by the European Union.
The RoHS directive took effect on 1 July 2006, and is required to be enforced and become law in each member state and any international supplier that is exporting product from their home country into the European Union.
This directive restricts the use of six hazardous materials in the manufacture of various types of electronic and electrical equipment. It is closely linked with the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE) 2002/96/EC which sets collection, recycling and recovery targets for electrical goods and is part of a legislative initiative to solve the problem of huge amounts of toxic e-waste.
RoHS is often referred to as the lead-free directive, but it restricts the use of the following six substances: Lead Mercury Cadmium Hexavalent chromium (Cr6+) Polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) Polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE)
We hereby certify that products manufactured by US Spring & Stamping Co., Inc., to the best of our knowledge, conform to RoHS 3 Directive (EU) 2015/863 amending Annex II of the RoHS 2Directive 2011/65/EU, RoHS-Recast, Article 4(1) and do not contain any of the following 10 hazardous substances above the specified limits.
Note: This information is based on supplier certifications.
Sincerely,
Richard Lorenz President
