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Legislation Impacting Canadian Manufacturers

This paper reviews highlights related to chemical restrictions for Canadian electronics manufacturers.

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Authored By:

Bev Christian
Research In Motion
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Summary

Canadian electronics manufacturers face chemicals regulations around the world, including RoHS (EU, China, South Korean, Turkey), REACH, PFOS/PFOA, Californian legislation, CMP, and emerging conflict minerals legislation. This paper reviews some of the highlights of these different topics related to chemical restrictions.

Conclusions

Chemical environmental compliance as an issue is not going away. In fact it is a certainty that the rate of increase is going to increase. The question is whether the increase will be linear or exponential. The overview given here in this report should be a warning that no one person can be on top of all the issues around the world. This cannot be a part time job for one employee. Companies would be advised to have advocates involved in the processes to offer suggestions and warnings where appropriate.

Initially Published in the SMTA Proceedings

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