Green – it’s quite the buzzword lately! Consumers are now making purchases based on how green they perceive a manufacturer is. So, what is Molex doing?
We’ll post updates here about Molex’s environmental compliance activities. Do Molex parts have hazardous substances? What is Molex doing to supply only compliant parts? Has Molex gone above and beyond legal requirements? How is Molex leading in this field?
My personal responsibilities include knowing environmental laws globally that impact electronic components, and working with Molex’s divisions to comply with the laws. We also survey our major customers for their requirements and develop our own global set of requirements. I am a member of a committee that includes representatives from each Molex product division. This committee works through the day-to-day challenges and opportunities of designing and selling compliant parts. Additionally, I’m a member of Molex’s Environmental Council, which sets Molex’s policies and drives our compliance activities globally.
If you need environmental information about a Molex connector you have purchased, contact ProductCompliance@molex.com . General questions/comments can be sent to ecocare@molex.com . Anything else – post here and let’s talk about it! We look forward to sharing our product compliance activities with you.
#1 by connectr on August 18th, 2010 - 12:29 am
While I am sure that RoHS compliance is very important to many lemmings following the European model, those of us who design products that must perform for 20, 30 or 40 years, regard long term reliability far higher. The problem of tin whisker growth on pure tin leads is enough to prevent the entire aerospace business from ever being RoHS compliant.
Thanks to our legal system where court findings are sealed, we may never know if the reliability issues that Toyota has had or Nokia were due to tin whisker growth or not. If you would like to do a service to your customers tell them about NASA’s website on the subject – http://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker/
Hopefully, Molex will continue to offer some products that ARE NOT RoHS compliant.