Maintaining Environmental Compliance
Are you a manufacturer who frequently introduces new and updated version of your products in the market? Have you ever checked whether your products maintain environmental compliance or do they contribute to the increasing electronic waste? Ensuring the proper disposal of your old and obsolete products is one of the primary measures to obtain environmental […]
RoHS and WEEE – to minimize e-waste
The Directive on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment, popularly known as the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS), and the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE), were two of the initiatives adopted by the European Union, in order to solve the issues of increasing electronic […]
Environmental compliance services – beyond the EU
For the average office, environmental compliance management probably rotates around waste recycling and energy usage. However, for the electrical or mechanical engineering company things are far more complex, especially if you ship goods abroad. RoHS, WEEE and REACH EU regulations don’t just affect companies based within Europe – they affect any company trading with the […]
GADSL and the ELV directive – how do they affect your company?
The ELV (end of life vehicle) directive is similar to the RoHS and WEEE compliance schemes, in that it was an EU directive designed to restrict the amount of hazardous materials reaching the environment. This was achieved in two ways: by restricting the substances used in the manufacture of new vehicles and their components, and […]
Does your ASIC design reflect a conflict of material interests?
Every printed circuit board and VLSI design seems to rotate around checking if solders are RoHS compliant, and if corrosion coatings obey the REACH directive. Now, there’s a new question – does it involve using conflict minerals? Conflict minerals have nothing to do with WEEE and RoHS directives, but with the humanitarian crisis in Africa, […]