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· SinoApps Adds China RoHS Product Marketplace
· New Hand-held XRF Analyzer From Oxford Instruments

· What Is RoHS?
· What Is WEEE?
· RoHS Exempt? Don't Bet Your Company On It
· Sony's Cadmium Heartburn
· China RoHS and China WEEE Updated 28 Oct
· Deleting Hexavalent Chromium From Electronics
· Surprise Contamination, Part 1
· Surprise Contamination, Part 2
· Electronic Parts: Material Content Analysis With XRF
· Material Screening With The Innov-X XRF Analyzer
· RoHS/WEEE Screening With Niton's XLt
· The Niton XLt Reloaded
· Using Google For Compliance Research
· Intel's Bold Challenge To RoHS Compliance
· RoHSwell Publishes Practical RoHS-WEEE Compliance Manual
· Arrow Enhances Component Management Tools
· Distributors Centralize Compliance Data
· Product Announcement Service On RoHSwell.com
· Options For WEEE
· Parts Plus CT Makes Declaration EZ
· Enlisting Support For Compliance
· Why Comply with RoHS and WEEE?
· IPC-1752: Where's The Beef?
· New RoHS Exemptions - No Big Deal
· Forget AMCPCEIP - Think China RoHS
· Reduce Testing With Third Party Certification
· IPC 175X Enables Uniform RoHS Declarations
· So You Want a RoHS Exemption, 5th Round
· Calls to Throw Out RoHS Unnecessary
· A Collision of Values
· European Commission Reverses deca-BDE Exemption
· deca-BDE: Banned or Not?
· Bacteria Convert deca-BDE into Toxic Forms
· RoHS Exemptions: Winners, Losers and Why
· When Removing Hazardous Substances from Electronic Components Makes Sense Technically and Economically
· Why RoHS and REACH
· New Oxford Instruments XRF Analyzer
· China RoHS Compliance Opens Doors
· China RoHS Translations
· China RoHS EFUP Guidelines Translation
· PoHS Concentration Limits
· SinoApps: Powerful China RoHS Compliance Tool
· SinoApps, Completing the Spreadsheet

· Reviews of Supplier Green Websites - summaries and usefulness ranking
· Distributors With Green Websites, Other Businesses

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· WEEE Guidance Notes from DTI, UK - New!
· Implementing the WEEE Directive (PDF, 1MB) - A simple presentation on how the UK National Clearing House (NCH) would work. Correctly identifies the issue that small businesses are largely out of the loop regarding environmental legislation.
· Actions you need to take for WEEE (PDF, 100KB) A brief guide to WEEE in the UK, from the envirowise website - free registration required.
· WEEE guide (PDF, 150KB) - An in-depth guide to marketing and product development. Excellent explanation of the intent of both the RoHS directive and the WEEE directive, and good suggestions for product design changes that enhance life-cycle management.
· WEEE guide (PDF, 490KB) - A guide to sustainable development. The WEEE directive encourages product design for recyclability. This guide provides a wealth of suggestions.
· Perchard's Report (PDF, 1.3 MB) dated 5 November 2005, final report.
· The WEEE Directory, UK - a directory of WEEE recyclers. According to a 26 March 2005 press release, this free directory is the place to go to find a UK recycler that meets your business needs.
· WEEE Marking Standard (PDF) - Supplied by Labelident. - New!
· Sony Document on WEEE Markings (PDF, 240K) - Discusses the full scope of WEEE marking, from the directive language, to symbol dimensions and application details.
· Adaptation to scientific and technical progress under Directive 2002/95/EC (PDF, 879 KB) dated 28 July 2006, Oko-Institut report on the exemption process, featured in "RoHS Exemptions: Winners, Losers and Why."
· UK, approved compliance schemes (PDF, 81 KB) - New!

· Lead-free Soldering website of the UK's Tin Whisker Report (1.5 mb PDF) from NASA - New!
· Lead-free Soldering website of the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL).
· JCAA/JG-PP Lead-Free Solder Project Reports - Joint Test Report on Lead-free reliability, from the US Dept of Defense and NASA.
· The Bob Willis (UK) Lead-free Soldering website.
· A wealth of articles on Lead-free Soldering from the Indium Corporation and others.
· ELFNET is a European research network with emphasis on lead-free soldering.

· The RoHSwell Bookshelf is stocked with authoritative books on every aspect of lead-free soldering. New!

· Korean RoHS English Translation (500 kb PDF) from EU Help Desk - New!
· REACH Q&A from White & Case LLP - New!
· RoHS directive 2002/95/EC (Consolidated) New!
· Status of RoHS Exemptions (PDF) by John H. Lau of Agilent Technologies, Inc.
· Unofficial New RoHS Exemptions (PDF) Unofficial notes from the 26 June TAC meeting
· RoHS guidance AeA Europe
· RoHS guidance UK Dept of Trade and Industry
· WEEE Guidance Notes from DTI, UK - New!
· Joint Industry Guide (PDF), April 2005, developed by EIA, EICTA and JGPSSI
· RoHS Enforcement Guidance (PDF), May 2006, ELFNET
· Final Report, RoHS Category 8 & 9 September 2006 - (PDF 2.4 MB) New!
· IPC-175X standard released 9 March 2006
· WEEE directive 2002/96/EC
· Japan RoHS - New!
· JGPSSI guides and tools
· EIA Special Report on China RoHS, 16-April-2003
· China RoHS English translations from GraspLLC.com - New!
· EU Battery directive page
· Basics of OSHA explained in plain English