Military use of our products

In our Principles for Sustainable Excellence, distributed to all our employees and available on our website, we have made it very clear that “we will not sell products that we know are to be included in weapons”.

At the end of 2006 we have conducted an internal survey and we have checked that we have no direct sales of this kind. We have direct sales to the civilian aerospace sector, and we sell our products also through distributors, with no control over subsequent sales. These products are standard, employed in hundreds of different applications and sectors, such as voltage regulators, diodes and transistors that can be purchased from any distributor and employed in thousands of products. It is unlikely any of our standard products are used by military clients for use in weapons, as these usually require very specific, customized applications.