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RoHS Equipment for Hire

By Melanie Reynolds -- Electronics Weekly, 8/2/2006 - Story

Electronics Yorkshire has started hiring out specialized test equipment, including a spectrometer, to help ensure products meet the requirements of the RoHS directive.

"For many smaller companies, the cost of installing the same equipment would be prohibitive and yet they must be able to prove to customers that they manufacture and install to the highest international standards if they are to compete and grow," said Peter Burnley, manager of the Electronic Yorkshire Technology Center.

The equipment includes a Fischerscope XDAL X-Ray spectrometer; an X-Tek Hawk X-Ray inspection system; a Votsch environmental chamber; ERSA BGA placement systems; and a Concoat MUST ii+ Solderability test machine.

The RoHS Directive (WEEE) stands for "the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment"

What every maintenance engineer should know about RoHS

Author: Jeff Shafer, senior vice president of product, Newark InOne

Issue: 7/2006

It's true that maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) parts are exempt from the European Union's Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive, which took effect July 1. But it's also true that everyone who buys or uses components is, or will soon be, impacted by RoHS. Story

Is the Investor Community Aware of RoHS Exposure?

Wednesday, July 26, 2006 - Story
Eric Karofsky

After years of preparation time, we’re now about a month past the effective date of the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS), a regulation which mandates electronics products sold in the EU need to be essentially void of six hazardous substances: lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, and PBB and PBDE flame retardants. Primary and anecdotal research shows that this is still a major problem, one that leaves electronics investors without enough information.