Questions about whether your fasteners are RoHS compliant?

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RoHS Explained

In 2006 and 2007, the European Union, China , Japan , Australia , Canada , Korea , Taiwan , and the state of California all adopted some version of RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances.)  If your company produces electric and electronic equipment or their parts that eventually makes its way to one of these countries, your company will have to comply with RoHS.  Even two years after the first RoHS implementation, some companies are not fully in compliance.

RoHS Compliance (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) is the nickname given to the European Union's directive 2002/95/EC on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment. RoHS is closely related to the European Union's directive 2002/96/EC on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). RoHS references Annex 1A of WEEE to specify its scope of coverage (Categories 1-7 and 10). While closely related, RoHS and WEEE deal with different parts of the product life cycle. RoHS seeks to reduce the amount of hazardous materials entering electronic products while WEEE deals with reducing the amount of electronics entering landfills.

Some outside the European Union may ask what RoHS has to do with them; after all, it's a European thing, right? Wrong, RoHS principles and reach are global. The directive indicates that anything covered by RoHS entering the European Union must be in compliance.  That includes all subcomponents and parts, no matter where they were manufactured or assembled. If it's destined for the European Union or any of the locations adopting similar regulations, it must comply with RoHS.

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