Omron Electronic Components Business – Europe completes RoHS compliance process

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(2006), "Omron Electronic Components Business – Europe completes RoHS compliance process", Microelectronics International, Vol. 23 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/mi.2006.21823bab.006

Omron Electronic Components Business – Europe completes RoHS compliance process

Omron Electronic Components Business – Europe completes RoHS compliance process

Keywords: Electronics industry, Components

Omron Electronic Components Business – Europe have announced that, with effect from 1 March 2006, it is fully RoHS compliant, and that it has removed all remaining non-compliant stock from its European warehouse in the Netherlands. The company has eliminated cadmium as well as lead from all of its devices – and does not require the benefit of the period of grace that the EU has granted the industry on the use of cadmium in switch contacts.

Omron ECB Europe Chief Operating Officer Nigel Blakeway commented, “From today, all ECB components shipped by Omron in Europe to its customers and distributors fully comply with the RoHS directive. On the issue of Cadmium, Omron made a global, company-wide commitment to become a Cadmium free company, and all OCB products designed in the last 10 years are Cadmium free as a standard. We have been eliminating Cadmium from our remaining switch and relay ranges since April 2005, and have not encountered significant issues in matching the existing performance. As a result, our customers are assured that there are no further changes required to our components to comply with the current directive.”