Lead Free Design - RoHS

RoHS compliance is underway

EU RoHS (Reduction of Hazardous Substances) required all manufactures selling electronic products into the EU to remove hazardous materials including: lead, cadmium, mercury hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) and polybrominated biphenyl ethers (PDBE) from their products.

This directive is aimed at reducing the amount of hazardous waste and increasing recycling efforts for electronic products.

The Business Impact

This could be business as usual or a business nightmare.

Even if Europe isn't a key market for you, China RoHS begins in March 2007.  Failure to comply could mean your products are stuck at the loading dock in Europe or China.  Any of these markets represent a significant amount of revenue loss.

The countdown in underway, are you ready?

Read about the Cost of Compliance...