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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 ...
 
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. ...
 
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. ...
 
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 ...
 
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 ...
 
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 ...
 
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 ...
 
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? ...
 
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. ...
 
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 ...
 
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 ...
 
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, ...
 
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. ...
 
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, ...
 
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 ...
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