ROHs product

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tak tau lah bender ni dah ader kat sini atau tidak tapi just nak info jer betapa pentingnya kita beli product elektronik / komputer  yang ader logo ni  " ROHs " kat EU dah ader rules tentang ni tapi kat malaysia belum lg kot......yang pasti semua elektronik factory kat sini mesti assy barang barang ROHs untuk ke EU sepenuhnya dan USA yang baru nak bermula.

http://www.rohs.gov.uk/

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Information on WEEE and RoHS

Many companies within the EU are working hard to comply with two directives from the European Union - WEEE and RoHS. These directives are concerned with waste handling and reduction of hazardous substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment. As a producer of this kind of products, the directives impact directly on LINAK. In this area of our website we would like to give more information on the directives and of LINAK's compliance with them.

WEEE The WEEE directive (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) is aimed at all original equipment manufacturers. As a component and system supplier LINAK is not falling under this description. LINAK products are, however, in many cases the only EEE products in the application. We have therefore decided to mark all LINAK actuator systems with the mandatory crossed out wheelie bin seen to the right. The deadline for adding the bin was 13 August 2005, which was met by LINAK.

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RoHS The RoHS directive (Reduction of Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment) impacts on LINAK in a much more direct way. The following substances are banned from Electrical and Electronic Equipment, effective 1 July 2006: Lead, Hexavalent Chromium (Chrome VI), Mercury, Cadmium, Polybrominated Biphenyles (PBB), Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDE). The vast majority of LINAK's products were compliant with the directive to start with, but we of course had to take action on those that were not. After many months of focused work, all LINAK products are now RoHS compliant, meeting abovementioned deadline.

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The Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS)

The Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) legislation, will apply throughout the EU from July 2006, and will ban products containing any more than trace amounts of lead, mercury, cadmium and three other hazardous substances. It is just one of three pieces of EU legislation with which electronics manufacturers must comply. There is also the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive, which came into effect in August 2004 and requires manufacturers to take back and recycle electrical products. Finally, the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) directive requires producers to register the chemicals they use in their manufacturing processes. Although these rules apply only in the EU, their effects are being felt around the world as many manufacturers cannot afford to run two production lines (it is simpler to produce one product for the worldwide market). Component suppliers, such as ACAL Radiatron, must ensure that they comply with the new rules if their parts end up in products sold in Europe. Similar rules are also being adopted around the world. China's Ministry of Information Industry is basing its rules on RoHS. In America, the Environmental Protection Agency will let industry regulate itself. As a result, many US states are introducing their own regulations - California's rules, for example, are based on the EU directives. Complying with the rules is no small task. The RoHS rules' main target is lead, a toxic substance that is used in solder to fix components to circuit boards, is also an ingredient in plastic casings and is also found in the glass of cathode-ray-tube monitors. The RoHS rules specify that components must contain less than 0.1% lead. This means that the solder used to fix components to circuit boards, which consists of a mixture of 63% tin and 37% lead, must be replaced with a mixture of tin, silver and copper which can cost in excess of 150% more. In addition, the lead-free solder melts at a higher temperature, which means manufacturing processes have to be changed too. As a result, the new rules will have significant financial implications for manufacturers but the manufacturing and recycling costs pale in comparison with the costs of ensuring compliance as manufacturers have to contact their supply chain to catalogue each component.

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http://www.intertek-cb.com/newsitetest/services/ROHS/rohscompliancetesting.shtml?gclid=CJvn7JiuxooCFROwbgodhG19hA