Product category: Board-Level Instruments
News Release from: National Instruments
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 29 September 2005
NI goes green despite RoHS exemption
National Instruments has announced its plan to release environmentally friendly products as part of the NI Hazardous Substances Reduction initiative
This NI initiative is a voluntary programme modelled after the European Union RoHS Directive, which restricts the use of harmful substances such as lead, mercury and cadmium in new equipment. NI already has RoHS-compliant versions of its GPIB interface chips available and plans to release RoHS-compliant versions of other leading products starting in Q1 2006.
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'NI recognises that eliminating certain hazardous substances from our products is beneficial not only to the environment but also to NI customers and employees', said Andy Krupp, NI Director of Quality.
'Through this NI initiative, the company demonstrates its commitment to customers by helping engineers design and develop environmentally friendly products using NI components'.
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National Instruments Alliance Partner TestWorks has launched a specific initiative focusing on the bespoke manufacturing test solutions market
The European Union RoHS Directive restricts the use of lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) or polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) in new electrical and electronic equipment put on the market in the European Union after 1st July 2006.
The RoHS directive applies to eight categories of electrical and electronic equipment but excludes products in Category 9, 'Monitoring and control instruments', under which NI products fall. Request free introductory details about products from National Instruments....
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