OUR ENGINEERING SOLUTION

The Directive on the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment 2002/95/EC (Pronunciation (help•info) / commonly referred to as the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive or RoHS) was adopted in February 2003 by the European Union.The RoHS directive took effect on 1 July 2006, and is required to be enforced and become law in each member state. This directive restricts the use of six hazardous materials in the manufacture of various types of electronic and electrical equipment. It is closely linked with the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE) 2002/96/EC which sets collection, recycling and recovery targets for electrical goods and is part of a legislative initiative to solve the problem of huge
RoHS is often referred to as the lead-free directive, but it restricts the use of the following six substances:
1.Lead
2.Mercury
3.Cadmium
4.Hexavalent chromium (Cr6+)
5.Polybrominated biphenyls (PBB)
6.Polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE)
PBB and PBDE are flame retardants used in several plastics.

OUR ENGINEERING SOLUTION

Given the characteristics of the RoHS Directive, we think something like it could be successfully applied in our country with
the endorsement of our government. We think that because the Directive does not only ban the production of electronic
appliances using these materials, but also the commercialization of these products in the given geographic area. Also, the
fact that even something as little as the tin-coating used in the manufacture of a transistor used in an amplifying module,
used inside a radio rx module of a sound system, could make the whole system unacceptable by the directive, could mean
that the manufacturers by themselves would filter their suppliers to make sure all of them are RoHS or Lead-Free Compliant,
and that way the non-compliant ones could end up becoming compliant to be able to compete in the market.

Pushing to make this a standard in our country, just as many of other countries are doing, could speed up the
standardization of this as a worldwide policy protecting our soil from these pollutants and improving our health and
life quality.