RoHS Compliance

These new European Directives introduce new environmental responsibilities for electrical and electronics equipment manufacturers. The RoHS (Restriction of use of certain Hazardous Substances) directive, part of the WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) directive, which came into force 1st July 2006.

The RoHS directive effectively bans the use of certain chemicals, these are defined as:

• Lead
• Cadmium
• Mercury
• Hexavalent Chromium
• Polybrominated Biphenyl (PBB) - flame retardant
• Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether (PBDE) - flame retardant

Arcolectric has taken action to ensure all standard Arcolectric products meet the requirement of this directive. The RoHS status list, below, provides a history of changes made to meet the directive. We also started to mark the packaging of all compliant products from end of October 2004.

RoHS status list by product part number. PDF File 18-12-06