Alpha Wire International has revealed that 95% of its 10,000 wire, cable and tubing part numbers will be RoHS compliant by July 2005 and that these can be specified and ordered immediately.
Alpha Wire International has revealed that 95% of its 10,000 wire, cable and tubing part numbers will be RoHS compliant by July 2005 and that these can be specified and ordered immediately. According to Alpha Wire’s VP of Sales and Marketing, Allan Marconi: ‘Our customers’ purchasing and engineering departments have one clear question; are Alpha Wire’s products RoHS compliant, or not?’. ‘The answer, for over 95% of our product range, is a resounding yes’.

‘And the remaining products requiring compliance will be certificated by the third quarter of 2005, one year ahead of the July 2006 deadline’.

To support customers’ engineering and purchasing departments still further, Alpha Wire has launched a number of RoHS initiatives.

For example, when specifying and ordering a product, customers can now log onto Alpha Wire’s new online part number search facility.

By simply entering the Alpha Wire part number, they will instantly be informed of when the part became RoHS compliant.

Alternatively, an Excel spreadsheet listing all Alpha Wire’s products and their compliance status can be downloaded.

Future compliance dates are also provided for current noncompliant products.

When the product is received by a customer, RoHS compliance is referenced on the distributor’s invoice, the packing list and, most importantly, on the product itself.

A certificate of compliance is also included.

This comprehensive listing and labelling is designed to aid product identification and tracking.

In addition, following customer feedback, part numbers remain unchanged, so there is no need for customers to rewrite their bills of materials.

To provide a simple, quick and foolproof means of validating to RoHS compliance its wire, cable and tubing materials, Alpha Wire has invested in an in-house energy disperse X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (EDXRF), which is capable of identifying basic elements and ‘fingerprinting’ the material.

Alpha Wire has re-engineered the chemical composition of any nonconforming materials to guarantee RoHS compliance, while ensuring that the product continues to deliver at least equal or superior technical performance.

Marconi concluded: ‘This means that all our customers based in Europe, and those exporting equipment into Europe, can continue to specify Alpha Wire’s cable, wire and tubing products today, confident that those products not only comply with the RoHS Directive, but that they are now available from their local Alpha Wire distributor’.