Go Green, Borer's Clean Design Policy

Clean Design Makes Greener, More Energy Efficient Products

“Clean Design” can help companies deal with ever stricter environmental controls and the prospect of meeting producer responsibility legislation and product take back obligations driven by European Directives (WEEE, RoHs and RoHs). This legislation requires companies to look closely at the environmental impacts of their products and to take action.

“Clean Design” is about asking smart questions early. Can we make it lighter? What will happen at the end of its life? Can it run on less power? Can we build it with fewer parts? Can we use less packaging? Can we design in ease of maintenance, design without hazardous material and can we upgrade rather than replace?

Good solutions to any of these questions make for greener products and makes them easier and less costly to build. Ultimately, businesses benefit from clean design, responding quickly to real pressure from consumers, suppliers, rising taxes on waste and increased costs of raw materials.

Achieving reductions in the cost of ownership in a product’s lifecycle is a major driving force in the design and the development of the Borer product line.

Our design imperatives are in line with the EU EuP directive 2005/32/EC.

• By designing our products to be smaller and more compact, the quantity of raw materials by mass, and consequently the energy required to manufacture them is reduced.
• Smaller, more compact products use less packaging therefore the cost of shipping and packaging is reduced.
• By reducing the complexity of systems the infrastructure (data and power cables, mains outlets, batteries and enclosures) and amount of time required to deploy/install the product is reduced.
• By designing energy efficient products, the amount of energy consumed is reduced.
• By providing monitoring and control tools which enable remedial tasks to be undertaken remotely, the number of post installation service calls (fuel miles) are reduced.
• By using less raw materials to manufacture the product, more of the product can be recycled and the volume of waste to dispose of at the end of its life cycle is reduced.

To achieve the above objectives we have reduced the power demand of our products and achieved high levels of product integration, thereby reducing the number of devices and the size of the devices deployed.

By designing equipment with lower power demands, Borer is able to take advantage of technologies such as Power over Ethernet (PoE), to deliver power to a network of devices down CAT5e cable.