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 | Standards & Compliance Briefing: WEEE Revision, REACH Review, Honda LEED ... - Environmental Leader |
|   | Thursday, 29 Sep 2011 Environmental Leader The European Parliament's environment, public health and food safety committee is expected next week to endorse a proposal that would strengthen EU rules on e-waste, European Voice reported. The vote next Tuesday would set a standard for the EU to ... |
 | INTERTEK GROUP : EU WEEE Directive Recast: Key Topics Under Review Webinar - 4-traders (press release) |
|   | Tuesday, 27 Sep 2011 4-traders (press release) The original European Union WEEE Directive (Directive on Waste Electric and Electronic Equipment) came into force on February 13, 2003. It has had a major impact on doing business in Europe for companies inside and outside the EU. ... |
 | WEEE've got the recycling tools - Andover Advertiser |
|   | Thursday, 22 Sep 2011 Andover Advertiser The company, based in Winchester Road, Basingstoke, which also looks to reuse Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) will be holding the initiative from Monday, September 26 to Friday, September 30. ... |
 | Ensuring Consistent Product Quality Using Time Critical Analysis and XRF - Azom.com |
|   | Thursday, 22 Sep 2011 Azom.com By AZoM In most industrial manufacturing processes, the key challenges faced by production are maximising production output and minimising expenditure, while at the same time enhancing quality and satisfying complicated, strict and varying regulatory ... |
 | WEEE: what are firms' legal responsibilities on waste - ElectronicsWeekly.com |
|   | Wednesday, 21 Sep 2011 ElectronicsWeekly.com All EU businesses are subject to an extensive waste recycling and disposal programme. The waste packaging aspects have been in place since 1994 and the electronic waste aspects (known by the acronym WEEE) since 2007. The aim of the programme as a whole ... |
 | Sierra Circuits Offers New ENEPIG Surface Finish For HDI PCBs - Surface Finishing.com |
|   | Friday, 16 Sep 2011 Surface Finishing.com ENEPIG is called the "Universal" surface finish since it can be used for all assembly processes and works well with both lead-free and conventional eutectic solder alloys. It also eliminates the potential for the solderability issues that have been ... |
 | Compliance & Standards Briefing: Green Smartphone, RoHS, NSF Suit, Low-Flow ... - Environmental Leader |
|   | Thursday, 15 Sep 2011 Environmental Leader Samsung's Evergreen, a smartphone for ?environmentally conscious? consumers (pictured left), has earned platinum accreditation from UL Environment's Sustainable Product Certification standard, the company announced. The smartphone, available to AT&T ... |
 | Dr. Jennie Hwang will deliver two courses at SMTA International Conference in ... - EMSNow (press release) |
|   | Thursday, 15 Sep 2011 EMSNow (press release) Answers will be provided to questions: "Should reflow peak temperature set to melt BGA solder balls?"; "What is the best practice in assembling lead-free components under SnPb process?"; "How the process affects the assembly reliability? ... |
 | Compliance & Standards Briefing: RoHS Lead Exemption, WEEE Compromise, LEED ... - Environmental Leader |
|   | Tuesday, 13 Sep 2011 Environmental Leader The European Union on Monday added a new exemption for lead to the RoHS directive on toxic substances in electronic goods, ENDS Europe reported. The new exemption appeared in the RoHS official journal following recommendations made in July. ... |
 | 2 new additions to the RoHS exemption list - ElectronicsWeekly.com (blog) |
|   | Tuesday, 13 Sep 2011 ElectronicsWeekly.com (blog) In January 2013 Directive 2002/95/EC will be replaced by Directive 2011/65/EU (RoHS recast) and exemptions will automatically expire after 5 or 7 years unless renewed. (If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site ... |
 | Introducing producer responsibility for WEEE in developing countries - Recycling News (press release) |
|   | Tuesday, 13 Sep 2011 Recycling News (press release) Lund, Sweden -- How can legislation be used to avoid hazardous waste being dumped where it could poison people and the environment in developing countries? Introducing producer responsibility could be one solution, says Panate Manomaivibool of the ... |
 | Mepa publishes plan on managing WEEE directive - Times of Malta |
|   | Friday, 9 Sep 2011 Times of Malta A plan to provide guidance to stakeholders managing Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Weee) has been developed by the Malta Environment and Planning Authority (Mepa). The plan highlights Malta's commitments under European legislation, ... |
 | China RoHS progress, or lack of! - ElectronicsWeekly.com (blog) |
|   | Friday, 2 Sep 2011 ElectronicsWeekly.com (blog) Under the proposed China RoHS measures published recently the scope will be extended from "electronic information products" to "electrical and electronic products" . Chinese authorities are working on various standards that should be published shortly. ... |
 | Reid: RoHS Bolsters Materials and Interconnections - PCBDesign007 |
|   | Wednesday, 31 Aug 2011 PCBDesign007 Paul Reid, Program Coordinator at PWB Inc., discusses what's new in reliability testing and why he believes this is the "Year of Design." He explains how RoHS requirements have furthered the development of more robust materials and interconnections, ... |
 | Webinar - Compliance Process for RoHS Recast - MarketWatch (press release) |
|   | Wednesday, 31 Aug 2011 MarketWatch (press release) On September 15th, Claigan Environmental Inc. ( www.claigan.com ), media sponsored by Chemical Watch, will present a webinar on their process for compliance with Directive 2011/65/EU, otherwise known as RoHS Recast. Claigan's RoHS Recast webinar will ... |