A MAGNET-SCHULTZ
Group Company

PREFAG
Carl Rivoir
GmbH & Co.KG
Postfach 1140
Prefagstraße 4
75045 Walzbachtal
(Wössingen)
Deutschland
Phone
+49-(0)7203 87-0
Fax
+49-(0)7203 87-170      
info@prefag.de

RoHS : WEEE
 
Change-Over of Plating of Pole Pieces


RoHS and WEEE require from the industry to avoid certain substances. Affected from this measure is the yellow-brown chromate with Cr6 used for zinc plated pole pieces of the moving coil movements.

Prefag opted for the thick film chromating LANTHANE TR 175. For further orientation and technical verification you can down load the specification as well as the test results established by the test-lab of our mother company Magnet-Schultz here.

Our customers receive samples of pole pieces and iron rings relevant for them to test.

A change-over of the surface treatment will only be possible once all our customers for the re-spective component have agreed to this modification.

TDS Lanthane TR 175
Testreport Lanthane

Our customers are held to observe these directives referring to the content of hazardous substances in the respective components, so, naturally, we as your supplier are dealing with these guidelines as well.

Prefag put a lot of time and research activities into clarifying the contents of these directives. Finally we can confirm that there are two Europe-wide directives with the references 2000/95/EG (RoHS) and 2000/96/EG dealing with the subject of avoidance of hazardous substances. But RoHS does not cover instrumentation and medical equipment.

 

And the law - ElektroG - based on the European law 2002/96/EG explicitly excludes electrical and electronical devices for medical equipment (category 8) and instruments for supervision and control (category 9).

 

Category 9 refers especially to units for measurement, weighing and regulation in private households and laboratories, as well as monitoring and control instruments for industrial equipment e.g. in control panels. This means that the requirement "free of lead, mercury, hexavalent chrome etc." does not apply to any product Prefag movements are considered to be used in.

 

For further reference please find below the internet links of the two directives:

 

http://de.farnell.com/images/en_UK/bespoke/rohs.pdf

http://de.farnell.com/images/en_UK/bespoke/weee.pdf