EU-RoHS/CHINA-RoHS

KOA has taken various measures to reduce using environmental hazardous materials in the products. The below is our latest actions to RoHS directives regulated by EU (hereinafter EU-RoHS) and to Chinese administration on the control of pollution caused by electronic information products (hereinafter CHINA-RoHS).

(1) EU-RoHS

None of the item on the list of EU-RoHS compliant products includes any of six hazardous materials (Lead/Cadmium/Hexavalent chromium/Mercury/PBB/PBDE) restricted by EU-RoHS from July 2006, although it shall not applied to the applications listed in RoHS exemptions.

Click through below links to check EU-RoHS compliant products and environmental data according to EU-RoHS compliant product type.

Environmental data according to EU-RoHS compliant product type
1. Construction, 2. Conformance to EU-RoHS
3. Recommended soldering condition and soldering temperature
4. Approvals of ISO9000 series and ISO/TS16949 and ISO14001
5. Designation of lead-free terminal products
6. Type designation

(2) CHINA-RoHS

CHINA-RoHS took effect as of 1^st March 2007. SJ/T11364-2006 standard specifies each threshold level of six

hazardous materials (lead/cadmium/hexavalent chromium/mercury/PBB/PBDE) ; Cd : max. 100ppm, other five materials : max. 1000ppm.

Click through below links to check CHINA-RoHS compliant products and environmental data by product type. CHINA-RoHS specifies no application exemption while EU-RoHS does. Even EU-RoHS compliant products sometimes contain hazardous materials in higher threshold level given in CHINA-RoHS. Pay attention for selecting component.