The Restriction of Hazardous Substance (RoHS) is new a directive legislation introduced by the European Union and will be enforced as from July 1, 2006. The RoHS directive will restrict the use of certain substances in new electrical and electronic equipment products put onto the market. The controlled substances are lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), cadmium (Cd), hexavalent chromium (CRVI) along with polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs) or polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) .... the final two substances are generally found in flame retardant materials. Maximum concentration values are 0.01% by weight per homogeneous material for cadmium and 0.1% for the other five substances.

RFX Ltd RoHS Compliance Statement

RFX Ltd is committed to supporting both customers and suppliers in all efforts to be a RoHS compliant manufacturer of electronic components and have been working towards RoHS compliance since mid 2004. Already, RFX Ltd have been successfully dealing with their customer's own specific RoHS requirements and have supplied RoHS compliant parts with test results to a number of satisfied customers.

Compliance certificates for RFX products are available on request for RoHS compliant parts.

RFX will not be changing their part numbers but will be introducing a RoHS compliance statement onto delivery notes.

Should you require either RoHS compliant product, or RoHS exempt product, please ensure that this is specified at the time of a product enquiry and again when product orders are placed.

RoHS material declarations can be supplied upon request. For this information please contact the sales office at sales@rfx.co.uk