The Goodbye Chain Group (GCG) , a Colorado Springs, Colo. company that helps manufacturers with environmental compliance, now offers a material declaration wizard software tool – MDW/1752 – that features XML import and export functionality for all six classes of IPC 1752 reporting. Additional features in the software tool include: In less then five minutes, users that have BOM-related ppm (parts per million) dat... (more) [Read more…]

According to a report from the Aberdeen Group in Boston, Mass., many manufacturers are still at risk of non-compliance despite pouring considerable time, money and staff into complying with various product content regulations worldwide. The report examines the compliance challenges and initiatives of manufacturers across a number of industries as they respond to RoHS, FDA labeling requirements and REACH. Th... (more) [Read more…]

Finally, the electronics industry in North America is going to get a peek into the details of China’s RoHS legislation. The Chinese laws are due to hit on March 1 of next year, but so far the details of the legislation have been murky at best. This may change later in October when senior officials from the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry (MII) attend a conference in Silicon Valley. The American Electron... (more) [Read more…]

If your company manufactures or imports electrical goods, you can no longer afford to ignore the WEEE Directive. [Read more…]

The WEEE regulations are due to come into force on 1 January 2007 in the UK, some two years later than expected, and will have an impact on all IT users disposing of old equipment. [Read more…]

Axion Recycling’s multi-million pound mixed plastic waste recycling facility in Manchester will be operational by February 2007. [Read more…]

Sims Recycling Solutions will soon have an outlet for plastic derived from waste electronic equipment, following the acquisition of German recycling specialist M+R. [Read more…]

Ageus Solutions of Kanata, Ontario has launched a spectrum of services designed to help manufacturers and component suppliers comply with environmental regulations, from the European Union’s (EU) RoHS and WEEE to China’s RoHS. Services include the following: Completion of missing substance part-per-million (ppm) content data Completion of product RoHS conversion Completion of process and interconnect information RoHS... (more) [Read more…]

So you think your products don't fall within the scope of the European Union's Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive? Have you performed the necessary due diligence to ensure the proper documentation? [Read more…]

San Jose, Calif., October 25, 2006—Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced that all development kits supporting its latest generation of FPGAs and CPLDs are compliant with the European Union's (EU) Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive. [Read more…]

Altera Corp. has announced that all development kits supporting its latest generation of FPGAs and CPLDs are now compliant with the European Union’s RoHS directive. Altera now offers 10 RoHS-compliant development kits that support the Stratix II, Stratix II GX and Cyclone II FPGA families, and MAX II CPLDs. Altera now offers more than 1,200 products in lead-free packages. The company has shipped more than 25 million programmable logic devices in lead-free packages since 2002. &#... (more) [Read more…]

Businesses in the north seem oblivious to the impending WEEE directive which will require that all such equipment is disposed of responsibly, according to northern-based waste management company Jade Care. [Read more…]

China’s version of the RoHS directive developed by the European Union (EU) may jeopardize intellectual property warns Robin Gray, executive director of the National Electronic Distributors Association. Gray notes that unlike the EU’s directive, China’s laws call for compliance that is verified by testing done in accredited Chinese laboratories. According to an article on [Read more…]

Kilkenny County Council in association with WEEE Ireland will be holding free recycling collections of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) during the month of November. [Read more…]

The impact of the WEEE directive on the Yorkshire and Humber region is under investigation by Recycling Action Yorkshire (RAY). [Read more…]

Thousands of UK manufacturers need to act to ensure they comply with WEEE rules on recycling electrical waste, due to come into force next summer. [Read more…]

ENVIRON is pleased to announce the establishment of a Producer Compliance Scheme—the B2BWEEE-Scheme—to enable producers of business-to-business (B2B) products to fulfil their obligations under the proposed UK WEEE Regulations. [Read more…]

A London-based reprocessing facility is set to handle plastics from waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) from the back end of February. [Read more…]

The GoodBye Chain Group (GCG) of Colorado Springs, Colo. has developed some packages to help manufacturers comply with China’s RoHS laws. [Read more…]

Producers of business to business (B2B) WEEE will start paying for recycling three months earlier than producers of consumer WEEE. [Read more…]

Selby District Council is cleaning up its IT act by disposing of old electrical equipment. [Read more…]

The International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI), has organized a SnPb Availability Task Group to address the needs of OEMs that are taking the lead exemption from (or those who products are of out the scope of) the European Union’s RoHS directive. [Read more…]

The industry group, Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI), has issued an alert advising its members they will need to provide “environmental labels and supporting self-declared information in Chinese” in order to comply with requirements of China RoHS. The alert notes that China RoHS is unlike the European Union’s (EU) RoHS directive in numerous key details and asks members to “not assume your compliance wit... (more) [Read more…]

A quarter of IT directors are unaware of the impact that the WEEE Directive will have on their business, while some have not even heard of it at all, according to research published last week. [Read more…]

US-owned consultancy Environ is preparing to launch a business-to-business WEEE compliance scheme to help electronics producers based in the UK deal with new producer responsibility requirements. [Read more…]