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July 3, 2006 - SLI-Consulting and the Environment.

We take our responsibility for the environment seriously, regarding our own activities and those of our suppliers, and endeavor to support the environmental aims and initiatives of our customers. We recognize the global effort in this aspect of business and are playing our part. Environmental responsibility is integral to producing world class products.

SLI-Consulting Environmental Policy

SLI-Consulting’s product strategy addresses the needs of our customers and their market places. The importance of the relationships between SLI-Consulting's technology, our customers and their markets is reflected in our approach to the environment. SLI-Consulting will endeavor to identify and minimize the negative environmental impacts of its products and business activities. This will be achieved through the SLI-Consulting Environmental Management System, which aims to ensure that:

• SLI-Consulting products and activities comply with all relevant environmental legislation and regulations;
• We reduce the use of materials, or alternatively re-use, recycle and recover materials, to minimize the overall consumption of natural resources and the requirement for landfill and disposal;
• We develop eco-efficient products and production processes and prevent pollution;
• We support our customers in the pursuit of their environmental objectives;
• We communicate appropriately on environmental matters internally and externally;
• We present an image which accurately reflects our environmental performance and objectives;
• We continually improve our environmental performance.

SLI-Consulting Products and the Environment

Our Environmental Policy emphasizes the importance of product design in our environmental considerations. SLI-Consulting is committed to compliance with all applicable environmental laws and regulations, including the restriction of hazardous substances in all of our electrical and electronic products.

SLI-Consulting recognizes the hazards associated with these substances and will prohibit the use of all substances identified within the RoHS Directive. It is SLI-Consulting’s objective to ensure all of its products sold within the European Union comply with the RoHS Directive.

SLI-Consulting is also committed to designing for the environment to ensure all products are capable of being recycled within the requirements of the WEEE Directive.

To meet these objectives SLI-Consulting is actively investigating alternative materials to use within its product range; SLI-Consulting is performing extensive research on substitute materials to ensure that the alternatives are technically feasible and to ensure that product performance or quality is not compromised. Progress on these activities is communicated to our customers.

SLI-Consulting Compliance with European RoHS Directive

In response to the European directive 2002/95/EC on the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS), SLI-Consulting has confirmed its full compliance with this legislation for all of its products placed on the market within the European Union.

Compliance requires certain categories of electronic equipment to contain less than defined thresholds of 6 specified substances for products placed on the market in the European Union.

Product sold outside of the European Union continues to comply with all local environmental legislation.

For further information on RoHS compliance of SLI-Consulting products please contact José C. Goldmann at jose@sli-consulting.com or +61(0) 2 8875 7994.

SLI-Consulting Suppliers and the Environment

The selection and expert management of our suppliers is central to our business. How our suppliers fulfil their responsibilities to the local and global environment, including their part in the creation of our products, is a major factor in our relationship with them. We have developed a SLI-Consulting Supplier Environmental Requirements document which has the following objectives:

• Define the materials and substances to be disclosed by suppliers and sub-suppliers when those materials and substances are present in SLI-Consulting current products and subparts;
• Establish those materials and substances which should not be intentionally added or used above the threshold level specified on all new product parts and sub parts;
• Guide SLI-Consulting suppliers on material composition reporting requirements;
• Determine through assessment if a supplier is actively complying with the current environmental laws and guidelines as required by SLI-Consulting.

Commitment to Quality

SLI-Consulting places particular importance on the quality of delivered products and services. To ensure an holistic approach to quality, the company applies the principles of process engineering to its internal organization.

About SLI-Consulting Pty Limited:
Founded in 1996, SLI-Consulting is a wholly Australian-owned data storage specialist. The company provides vendor independent consultancy services to the Data Centre, Post Production, Earth Resources and Medical Imaging industries. SLI-Consulting addresses all Open System platform, service and management issues. It maintains OEM relationships in Europe, Asia and North America.  SLI-Consulting’s growing client base is focused on the Asia Pacific, with offices in Sydney, Brisbane and Seoul, Korea.

For further information, please visit: www.sli-consulting.com

Yvonne Goldmann, PR Manager
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