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Lead-free Legislation in Electronics Industry

SZENDIUCH, I.

Original Title

Lead-free Legislation in Electronics Industry

English Title

Lead-free Legislation in Electronics Industry

Type

Paper in proceedings (conference paper)

Original Abstract

Leaded solders have been widely used in the electronics industry for a long time. However, their toxicity gave rise to proposals for anti-lead legislation in the USA more than ten years ago. From this time the electronics industry worldwide has began the move to eliminate lead from its manufacturing processes. The same activity has started immediately in Japan too. Many companies,such as Fujitsu, Hitachi, Sony Matsushita, NEC and Toshiba have active Pb reduction programmes already in place since started the new century. In the Europe the main driver to lead-free appears to be proposed legislation Waste of Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE). The published second draft from 1998 was starting point for a number of companies in developing lead-free technology. From that point these companies putting in place development programmes to build the technology for lead-free soldering.

English abstract

Leaded solders have been widely used in the electronics industry for a long time. However, their toxicity gave rise to proposals for anti-lead legislation in the USA more than ten years ago. From this time the electronics industry worldwide has began the move to eliminate lead from its manufacturing processes. The same activity has started immediately in Japan too. Many companies,such as Fujitsu, Hitachi, Sony Matsushita, NEC and Toshiba have active Pb reduction programmes already in place since started the new century. In the Europe the main driver to lead-free appears to be proposed legislation Waste of Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE). The published second draft from 1998 was starting point for a number of companies in developing lead-free technology. From that point these companies putting in place development programmes to build the technology for lead-free soldering.

Keywords

Lead Free soldering, EU legislation

Key words in English

Lead Free soldering, EU legislation

Authors

SZENDIUCH, I.

Released

01.01.2004

Publisher

Ing. Zdeněk Novotný CSc.,Brno

Location

Brno

ISBN

80-214-2701-9

Book

11th Electronic Devices and Systems Conference 2004 Proceedings

Pages from

403

Pages count

406

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT11422,
  author="Ivan {Szendiuch}",
  title="Lead-free Legislation in Electronics Industry",
  booktitle="11th Electronic Devices and Systems Conference 2004 Proceedings",
  year="2004",
  pages="406",
  publisher="Ing. Zdeněk Novotný CSc.,Brno",
  address="Brno",
  isbn="80-214-2701-9"
}