Corporate Responsibility and Environmental Management
Cyclone Microsystems has had a longstanding commitment to minimize our impact on the environment.  We consider environmental stewardship to be of great importance.  This ethic is demonstrated by our practices and policies for recycling, waste reduction, and resource management.  

Cyclone Microsystems subscribes to the tenets of the Electronic Industry Code of Conduct (Version 3.0, 2009). The EICC establishes standards for Labor, Health and Safety, Environment, Management, and Ethics. Our defined programs are appropriate to our mission and scope of operations.

Environmental Programs

• Energy Conservation
• Energy Usage: Several years ago we implemented a complete retrofit of our administrative, engineering, and production lighting to energy efficient ballasts. The retrofit paid for itself within two years with the savings in energy expenses. All computers and monitors utilize power saving settings. Heat Usage is monitored and excess heat from production operations is circulated to administrative and engineering areas in the winter heating season.
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Production product testing consumes our largest amount of energy. Consequently, electricity for testing is our largest variable input. Product  energy efficiency is a considered design trade-off in the development of new product specification
• Waste management
• Recycling Program: Our recycling program encompasses all paper, cardboard, bottles, cans, fluorescent lights, batteries and ink/toner cartridges. In 2007, we formed a partnership with a local company for the recycling/reclaiming of all electronic waste, metals and wood pallets. To date, over two tons of material has been prevented from entering landfills.
• Waste Reduction:
• Exclusive use of starch based 100% biodegradable loose fill for packaging.
• All of Cyclone's product manuals and product literature are primarily distributed in electronic PDF format
• Double Sided Report Printing
• We have replaced disposable beverage containers and plastic cutlery with employee issued non-disposable/non-spill coffee mugs and stainless steel lunch room cutlery
• Maintenance Supplies: The facility is maintained using earth friendly cleaning products and post consumer recycled paper towels.
• RoHS Compliance: In 2006, Cyclone Microsystems transitioned all new products to comply to the semiconductor industry's standard of RoHS (Reduction of Hazardous Substances). While we still produce a few legacy products that were not viable to fully convert due to the lack of 100% RoHS components, we are actively substituting RoHS components, went able, into the production stream of non-RoHS products. RoHS compliance is only met with 100% compliance.

Setting Goals and Measuring Performance

We have taken every opportunity to conduct business with the objective of ecological responsibility. We set and track numeric goals in:

• Energy Conservation
• Greenhouse Gas
• Waste Management

Management Audits of Performance

Environment Goals and Programs are a standing periodic agenda item for management review and discussion.

Cascading Environmental Management Requirement to Significant Subcontractors

Major providers of goods and services are required to develop and maintain identical goals programs and structures.