RoHS Compliance Directive

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 effectively ban the use of certain substances in new electrical and electronic equipment products put onto the market. The banned substances are lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), cadmium (Cd), hexavalent chromium (CRVI) along with polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) or polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) .... the final two substances are generally found in flame retardant materials.

TFC RoHS Compliance Statement

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

A collection of TFC product data sheets are available on request for both RoHS compliant and non RoHS compliant parts and samples can be supplied on request.

TFC will not be changing their part numbers but will be introducing ' RoHS compliant ' or ' Pb Free ' into the description line of product labels, packing notes and invoices.

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@tfc.co.uk