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New RoHS-WEEE Compliance Seminars at RoHSwell.com
April 13, 2008 These seminars have been posted on RoHSwell.com:

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Green Tech Survey: Too Costly, Hard to Cooperate With Other Companies
April 11, 2008 Responses to Tech News' Green Tech Survey conducted in March indicate that most SME businesses find compliance expenses excessively burdensome.

Connector prices will rise
April 10, 2008 Connector suppliers predict an increase in prices for 2008, as the prices for raw material, such as metals and plastic will soar.

European Court of Justice annuls Deca-BDE RoHS exemption
April 8, 2008 The European Court of Justice has annulled the decabromodiphenyl ether (Deca-BDE) exemption to the RoHS directive, stating that the European Commission used an incorrect criterion, an EU risk assessment as the basis for exemption. Users of Deca-BDE only have three months before the exemption expires.

Within a whisker of failure
April 3, 2008 Removing lead from solder may seem a smart idea environmentally, but the resulting microscopic growths called tin whiskers could be just as problematic.

Designing for Environmental Compliance
April 2, 2008 Companies that take advantage of PLM technology with compliance data management solutions will leapfrog the competition.

WEEE a challenge in Central Europe
March 31, 2008 Central and Eastern Europe lack a well-developed network of statewide collection points for electronics waste compared to most of Western Europe.

List: All substances that are possibly included in the new RoHS-directive
March 28, 2008 evertiq has listed all substances that might be included in the revised and more rigorous RoHS directive, introduced later this year.

Possible RoHS Followup 'Arbitrary and Capricious,' IPC Claims
March 28, 2008 With the industry still reeling in some circles from the after-shocks of the RoHS Directive, a proposed list of nearly 50 additional substances has touched off an uproar over Europe's apparent desire to obliterate modern electronics. In the latest volley, IPC is calling on the organization charged with assessing potentially hazardous substances for possible inclusion in supplemental legislation to the RoHS Directive to table its efforts until further scientific evidence is available to support a ban.

WEEE directive does not demand data deletion
March 28, 2008 A surprising amount of people and companies are unaware that waste electronic and electrical equipment (WEEE) disposal firms are under no obligation to destroy data on old equipment, according to one industry bible.

Webinar: Counterfeiting a 'Real' Issue
March 27, 2008 High-tech products make up four of the top 10 border seizures, while one of every 10 IT products is counterfeit.

The WEEE board gets down to business
March 27, 2008 The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Advisory Body (WAB) has now set up a work implementation plan that will assess the WEEE system.

Top five predictions for Green IT in Asia-Pacific
March 26, 2008 Not far from now, non-Green parts will be assigned end-of-life status and Green legislation will come to impact every single PC manufacturer, according to the IT market researcher.

Program for the planet
March 26, 2008 Some time in the last five years environmental sustainability has gone from being an avant-garde concept to mainstream business practice that leading manufacturers have integrated into highly profitable business models.

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