Soldertec Global, a company that does testing for the electronics industry, has launched a RoHS reliability assessment service that is designed to combine the strength of an expert UK consultant and an independent laboratory. The service has modular components that allow OEMs to select an assessment package that targets individual needs. The on-site co... (more) [Read more…]

The European Union (EU) would wants to know how RoHS and WEEE have affected the electronics industry. The EU has hired research teams from Environment Consultancy and Assistance (ECOLAS) and Risk and Policy Analysts (RPA) to conduct studies on both RoHS and WEEE. The research includes a reach-out questionnaire to the electronics industry. Between now and May 25, 2007, the EU is looking for input from the electronics industry. To take advantage of this opportunity to contribute input, ... (more) [Read more…]

An article in EMSNow finds that independent distributors are finding a new niche by offering to convert existing inventories to RoHS compliance. Many OEMs and distributors are stuck with leftover components they are unable to use as they switch to RoHS-compliant parts. The article quotes Michael Baker, quality manager at E-Certa Inc., a company that offers services to convert... (more) [Read more…]

The U.S. aerospace industry group, Government Electronics Industries Association (GEIA), will release guidelines on the performance and qualification testing for lead-free solder during the first quarter of 2008, according to a report from Elfnet, the European lead-free site. The report, entitled, “Guidance Regarding the Performance and Qualifica... (more) [Read more…]

The International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (iNEMI) will hold its tin whisker workshop at the Electronic Components & Technology Conference (ECTC) on May 29 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at John Ascuaga’s Nugget in Reno, Nev. The workshop is co-sponsored by ECTC and the IEEE Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology Society. Tin plating has be... (more) [Read more…]

The UK-based Chemical Industries Association (CIA) provides the subscription-based REACHReady website that offers information on developments in the European Union’s Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) directive. The CIA has contributed to the development of this legislation. The REACHReady website is a commercial offering from the CIA that offers two levels of subscriptio... (more) [Read more…]

If you’re planning to attend the NXTcomm telecommunications event in Chicago June 19 – 21, you can bring your electronics product by the Underwriters Laboratories Inc. booth and get it screened for RoHS compliance. As part of Underwriters Laboratories Restricted Substances Compliance Solutions program, the company is giving free screenings a... (more) [Read more…]

An article last week on the UK’s Computer Active website said that Britain authorities have warned its small army of PC building firms that they need to make sure the parts they use in assembly are RoHS compliant. [Read more…]

The Association Connecting Electronic Industries (IPC) and JEDEC are seeking speakers to participate in two global conferences dedicated specifically to addressing the issues of reliability and reliability testing for lead-free electronic... (more) [Read more…]

The Surface Mount Technology Association will present an international conference on developing technology October 7 – 11 at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. The program will include more than 100 technical papers, 26 tutorials, an Evolving Technologies Summit and three f... (more) [Read more…]

On Friday, July 13, at 11 a.m. PDT, Design Chain Associates (DCA), a San Francisco firm that helps companies with environmental compliance, will hold a free webinar on the European Union’s (EU) Registration, Evaluation, and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH). The webinar is tar... (more) [Read more…]

The European Union’s (EU) Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive is now the effective law in the UK. While WEEE entered the statute book at the beginning of the year, full producer responsibility was delayed until July 1 of this year. Under the legislation, those selling electronic goods have to offer their customers free in-store take-back service, or, they ... (more) [Read more…]

  UK’s Health and Safety Commission launches REACH site   The UK’s Health a... (more) [Read more…]

Atrion International, a Montreal-based regulatory support firm, has released Intelligent Authoring for REACH, an updated automated tool that updates safety data sheets for compliance with the European Union’s REACH directive controlling hazardous chemical substances. The tool is designe... (more) [Read more…]

Design Chain Associates and Eco-Frontier will present the webinar, Korea RoHS/ELV – What You Need to Know, on August 14 at 9 a.m. PDT (12 p.m. EDT [Read more…]

RoHS International, a New Zealand firm that helps companies manage environmental compliance, has released guidance on Norway’s Prohibition on Certain Hazardous Substances in Consumer Products, which has come to be known as PoHS. The regulation goes into... (more) [Read more…]

While there is still some concern about the reliability of lead-free components, OEMs of consumer products have found ways to adapt to RoHS laws while still producing sturdy products. [Read more…]

The Solder Products Value Council (IPVC) – formed recently by the Association Connecting Electronics Industries (IPC) – has launched a research program entitled, Take Action Limits (TAL), aimed to provide consistent recommendations for action levels on contaminate of wave soldering alloys. [Read more…]

You can now calculate the environmental benefits of your EPEAT-registered desktop or laptop computer. The Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies at the University of Tennessee has developed the Ele... (more) [Read more…]

In the shift to lead-free solders, a standard for lead-free solder composition has not yet arrived. Some electronic components are being produced with pure tin, while others include additional metals such as nickel, silver, gold and others. “There are many different metallurgies for solder,” says a Lockheed Martin engineer who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “Problem is, nobody has an all-around tired-and-proven metallurgy f... (more) [Read more…]

Papros, Inc. of San Jose, Calif. has updated its MRPRO REACH software module so it can read compositions of parts having multiple layers/sub-part groups in mixtures whose material declaration data is prepared for the IPC 1752-2 standard. The s... (more) [Read more…]

Pam Gordon, president and founder of Technology Forecasters Inc. in Alameda, Calif. Gordon will challenge that waste during a Zero Waste Forum in San Jose on December 5 – 6. [Read more…]

SinoApps.com has been recognized by the China Ministry of Information Industry (China MII) - the regulatory body of China RoHS - as an appropriate compliance solution. [Read more…]

The Association Connecting Electronics Industries (IPC) and JEDEC will hold the International Lead-Free Conference on December 3 – 5 in Austin, Texas [Read more…]

Japan-based Shimadzu Scientific Instruments has published the poster, “Instrumental and Sampling Requirements for RoHS Compliance.” The poster looks at the threshold levels of the individual restricted materials in RoHS, including lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium and the two brominated flame retardants, polybrominated byphenyls (PPB) and polybrominated diphe... (more) [Read more…]