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Hi, this is Design News contributing editor, Rob Spiegel. Welcome to my Lead-Free Zone blog. This is your opportunity (and mine) to discuss RoHS and other environmental issues. Green regulations have produced waves of industry confusion, and I do not expect things to clear up quickly. So use this blog to inform us of your opinions, to instruct us all on what you're doing about this initiative, or just to blow off some steam.

EU countries plan to tighten RoHS enforcement

Rob Spiegel
Posted by Rob Spiegel on November 4, 2008

According to Intertek Group, a London-based testing company, the governments of European Union (EU) countries are building plans to work together to better enforce RoHS regulations in Europe. At an international forum held in Washington D.C. in September, authorities responsible for RoHS in EU countries flagged an intention to begin working together informally toward a more structured RoHS enforcement strategy.

Intertek details the expected changes in RoHS enforcement in a statement released last month. For one, government bodies across Europe now plan to improve the effectiveness of their RoHS monitoring and resources dedicated to it by adopting a cross-boarder model that follows the successful efforts by Nordic countries. In 2007, the Nordic countries united their RoHS programs and increased the depth of monitoring and reporting on non-compliance by sharing data across country borders.

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IPC and JEDEC present lead free conference

Rob Spiegel
Posted by Rob Spiegel on October 30, 2008

The Association Connecting Electronics Industries (IPC) and the semiconductor industry’s standards organization, JEDEC, are sponsoring a conference entitled, Lead Free – Strategies for Implementation on December 8—10 at the Fairmont hotel in Dallas, Texas. The event features a full-day technical conference with a roster of speakers on a range of lead-free topics. Two full days of half-day workshops on the subject will be offered as well. Registrations by November 5 will receive a 10 percent discount.

Topics include the lead-free soldering process, understanding failure and root-cause analysis, and data management for eco compliance.

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Total Parts Plus introduces REACH reporting

Rob Spiegel
Posted by Rob Spiegel on October 29, 2008

Component site, Total Parts Plus of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., now flags and tracks Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) that have been identified by the European Union’s Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) legislation. Initially, Total Parts Plus will identify the proposed 15 SVHC candidates and will track any additional substances as they are approved by REACH. Total Parts Plus notes that Halogen-free products will be easily identified and tracked for reporting purposes. Users will be able to submit any board-level electronic component through the company’s web application and generate the named material, weights and measures required by REACH reporting.

“REACH will apply to any business of any size. Manufacturers will be required to report, at minimum, the named substance within their product to anyone that asks within 45 days, including environmental groups,” says Peter Robinson, VP at Total Parts Plus. “TTP material content services will enable companies to easily fulfill that request.”

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