{"id":17,"date":"2006-09-19T13:14:55","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T05:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metal-domes.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/19\/lead-free-definition\/"},"modified":"2006-09-20T15:18:24","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T07:18:24","slug":"lead-free-definition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metal-domes.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/19\/lead-free-definition\/","title":{"rendered":"Definition of Lead Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"yzp-no-index\"><\/div><p>For several years, the industry has been working towards eliminating lead in electronics by July 1, 2006, as required under the <a href=\"http:\/\/europa.eu.int\/smartapi\/cgi\/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnumdoc&#038;lg=EN&#038;numdoc=32002L0096&#038;model=guichett\" target=\"_blank\">European Union&#8217;s <strong>R<\/strong>estriction <strong>o<\/strong>f <strong>H<\/strong>azardous <strong>S<\/strong>ubstances (RoHS) Directive<\/a>. The <strong>RoHS<\/strong> Directive stands for &#8220;the Restriction Of certain Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic equipment&#8221;. But complying with RoHS is actually much more complicated, as companies are finding out. There are a lot of issues, and it&#8217;s a challenge keeping track of them all, let alone implementing industry wide and company-specific solutions.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As we know, the vital part of RoHS inspect is the lead, that is Lead-Free. So let&#8217;s take a glance at the definiation of Lead-Free.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;For the purposes of Article 5(1)(a), a maximum concentration value of 0,1 % by weight in homogeneous materials for lead, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) and of 0,01 % by weight in homogeneous materials for cadmium shall be tolerated.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can also down the full version of COMMISSION DECISION of 18 August 2005, regarding the Lead-Free. Please\u00c2\u00a0click here: <a id=\"p16\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metal-domes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/definition%20of%20lead%20free.pdf\">Definition of Lead Free<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the manufacturer and exporter of <a title=\"metal domes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metal-domes.com\/products.htm\" target=\"_blank\">metal domes<\/a> and <a title=\"metal dome array\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metal-domes.com\/product-dome-array.htm\" target=\"_blank\">metal dome arrays<\/a> in China, we are dedicated to achieve that porpose. Right now,\u00c2\u00a0the material of\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"metal domes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metal-domes.com\/products.htm\" target=\"_blank\">metal domes<\/a> and <a title=\"metal dome array\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metal-domes.com\/product-dome-array.htm\" target=\"_blank\">metal dome arrays<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0has get the SGS report and are RoHS compliant. \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In next article, we will talk about the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Covered Under RoHS and other related issues.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <em>(to be continued&#8230;)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For several years, the industry has been working towards eliminating lead in electronics by July 1, 2006, as required under the European Union&#8217;s Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive. The RoHS Directive stands for &#8220;the Restriction Of certain Hazardous Substances &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metal-domes.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/19\/lead-free-definition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metal-domes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metal-domes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metal-domes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metal-domes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metal-domes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metal-domes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metal-domes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metal-domes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metal-domes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}