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Services by business type: OEMs

As a supplier to the final market the OEM is responsible for ensuring compliance with European rules and for arranging ultimate disposal of non-compliant products.  This means that the OEM must ensure that vendors supply truly RoHS-compliant products, not just letters assuring the OEM of their components’ compliance.  It is important to keep this in mind since we can be sure that sooner or later the rules will be used as competitive weapons to remove other companies’ products from the market.

Given the widespread confusion over the rules and the lack of approved test methods, it may be necessary to work with vendors, reviewing or auditing vendor processes and products to ensure that they really are RoHS-compliant, and then helping them become RoHS-compliant if needed.  In some cases it may even be necessary to measure the chemistry of bulk materials and surface coatings to ensure compliance (although with no approved test methods, testing can only be used to provide assurance that the product is well within the limits, or show it to be clearly non-compliant).

Where products are known to be non-compliant, alternative processes and materials will be needed.  This is an opportunity, not just to meet the rules, but wherever possible to produce a superior product (e.g. by using HVOF in place of hard chrome, by changing materials, or by combining compliant surface treatments to improve corrosion resistance).  With the large number of alternatives on the market, and the even larger number of materials that are raising concern in Europe and elsewhere, one must also consider whether the alternative chosen will be banned tomorrow.

With our broad knowledge of materials and coatings we can provide assistance in all these areas:

• Review and audit vendor materials and processes to ensure RoHS compliance

• Review and audit your own materials and processes to ensure compliance with both RoHS and the OSHA standards

• Identify the best and most cost-effective alternative processes and materials to meet US and European rules

• Carry out cost benefit analysis of the life-cycle cost of adopting new technologies, using the C-MAT approach developed for the Defense Department

• Assist with qualifying new technologies bringing them rapidly into production

• Assist with developing specifications for alternative materials and processes

• Provide training to the workforce to ensure a smooth transition.

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• Meeting the OSHA Cr6+ PEL

• Meeting the European Rules

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