RoHS Compliance
RoHS is a European Union (EU) directive that is designed to greatly reduce or eliminate the amounts of hazardous substances that go into landfills and other waste collection areas when electrical and electronic equipment is disposed. The reduction of hazardous substances will be accomplished by banning six substances that have a history of posing risks to human health and to the environment. These six substances are lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls and polybrominated diphenyl ether. The RoHS directive states that as of July 1, 2006 producers of certain categories of electrical or electronic equipment will not be able to offer for sale any product that contains any of the banned hazardous substances in the 25 European Union member nations. The categories of electrical and electronic equipment that must comply with the RoHS directives include household appliances, IT and communication equipment, consumer equipment, lighting equipment, tools, toys, sporting equipment, monitoring and control equipment and automatic dispensing equipment.
The power supplies, docking stations, battery chargers and capacitors that are manufactured by Elpac fall under one or more of these categories so we are committed to being in full compliance with the RoHS directive. Of the hazardous substances defined by RoHS the only one that is an issue with the products manufactured by Elpac is lead. Lead is used in the tinning and soldering of almost every electronic and electrical product and component.
To learn more about what Eplac is doing to meet the RoHS directives, please click here.