A quick comment on RoHS

I am still trying to catch up on my IPC TechNet list, IPC LeadFree list, and ROHSUSAPushback Yahoo! group reading from last October.
This will be a short post, but I did want to comment on the the discussion between Dr. Ron Lasky and John Burke regarding RoHS. Dr. Lasky wrote an article that subsequently appeared [...]

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IPC LF & TN news from late September to early October

And here are some more interesting tidbits from the IPC’s Technet & Leadfree lists, from September 29 to October 3, 2006.

There was a question about tests for hexavalent chromium. This is still a very thorny issue because RoHS bans hexavalent chromium (Cr6), but trivalent chromium (Cr3) is still okay; however, [...]

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IPC LF & TN news from late September

Once again, I’m trying to catch up on my reading on the IPC Lead-Free & TechNet discussion lists. Right now, I’m about three months (!!) and 2000 e-mails (!!!!!). Here is some news dating from September 24 to September 29.

A couple of posters noted Ireland was the most likely country to initiate the first [...]

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RoHS I – Questions I cannot answer.

For those of you not familiar with RoHS, it is a European Union directive. RoHS stands for Restriction of Hazardous Substances (or Restrictions on Hazardous Substances, depending on who is writing). It bans the use, with certain exemptions, of the following substances:

lead (Pb)
mercury (Hg)
cadmium (Cd)
hexavalent chromium (Cr VI)
poly-brominated bi-phenyls (PBBs)
poly-brominated diphenyl ethers, specifically [...]

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Found a good blog about RoHS!

I did some searching on Google for “blog” and “RoHS”, and quite honestly, didn’t find a whole lot. There were a lot of hits, many of which did got to blogs, but it seemed like most of the blog entries just mentioned that RoHS existed or said that it was great (if it was [...]

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