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How do share ongoing savings? What alternative to China manufacturing do you offer to enter Asian markets? Can you reassure me key program personnel won't be pulled elsewhere? Is all activity performed in-house or do you sub-contract some portions out? EMS Documents. White Papers. EMS Directory Listings. Best Practices. But this category still includes a wide range of electrical products, equipment, cables and electrical components. An EU directive is a legislative act that sets a goal that all EU countries must achieve.
But each country must devise their own laws on how to reach the goal. While countries might differ in their implementation and enforcement of RoHS, the restricted substances and their limits are largely consistent across the EU. The RoHS Directive restricts the use of six hazardous substances in electrical products, including:.
Restricted substances may not compose more than 0. This is the equivalent of ppm parts per million. The one exception is for cadmium, which is limited to 0.
A homogenous material means a single substance that cannot be separated by mechanical actions such as unscrewing, cutting, crushing, grinding or abrasive processes. You might need to test multiple materials in your product if they could each contain restricted substances. The original RoHS Directive restricts the use of the six hazardous substances above. In doing so, the manufacturer declares that the product meets all the legal requirements for sale throughout the European Economic Area EEA.
These four substances are all phthalates used to soften plastics and can be found in cables, wiring, vinyl, synthetic rubber, adhesives, paints and other materials. Medical device importers have an additional two-year grace period to become compliant with the RoHS 3 requirements to ensure consumer safety during the transition. Manufacturing goods in Asia can involve many different suppliers, ranging from raw materials suppliers to parts manufacturers. Noncompliant products cannot be distributed in the EU market.
Each EU member state has its own enforcement penalties. But certain federal-level offenses can lead to eight years in prison and a fine of 55,, EUR. Sub-contracting is common and often necessary to acquire necessary raw materials and components.
But manufacturers rarely have robust incoming quality control or auditing procedures to verify suppliers and their supplied goods. Independent verification of product samples and finished goods is therefore a must for importers to reduce their risk and avoid liability issues. Lead in compounds which can vaporise or flake as fine powder or in forms which are soluble or somewhat soluble are much more likely to be hazardous. The dangers of lead paint flakes to children and maintenance workers is extremely well documented.
There appears to be a statistically significant correlation between the use of tetraethyl lead in petrol and some serious health conditions. Getting the compounds out of the environment seems wise. I'm not so sure of the merits of eliminating metallic lead and eg lead solder - but the battle has been fought long ago and cannot now be refought. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.
Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. European RoHS directive - is it a nonsense? Asked 7 years, 4 months ago. Active 7 years, 4 months ago.
Viewed times. Kamil Kamil 5, 8 8 gold badges 35 35 silver badges 56 56 bronze badges. I think you might be right, I never clashed with such problems because I'm still a kiddo, but about the type of discussion you want to have I'd say: post it in a forum. If things were better planned the whole thing would take longer and allow alternatives to be slowly integrated into production.
BTW - car batteries do get recycled. As a component or bulk manufacturer, it's easy peasy. However, this isn't really an issue anymore. RoHS has been with us for many years now and it is rare to find non-compliant suppliers at all. Some of the components used were custom made high gain ultra low noise op amps and some other micro coils and they started to work on compliance about 3 years ago, I have no idea how things turned out but it was consuming a lot of time back then and this while all the custom components were not designed in house.
SE is not the place to have a conversation about it. There's no real question here, and even if there were, it would relate to politics, economics and environmental issues, not electronics design. Show 1 more comment.
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