Elizabeth NJ…Alpha Wire Company has announced that 95 per cent 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’s products RoHS compliant or not? The answer, for over 95 per cent 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 Alpha’s customers’ engineering and purchasing departments still further, Alpha Wire has launched a number of RoHS initiatives, including:
- When specifying and ordering a product, customers can now log onto Alpha’s new online part number search facility at www.alphawire.com.
- 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.
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 non-compliant products.
A Certificate of Compliance is also included.
This comprehensive listing and labeling 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 ‘finger printing’ the material.
Alpha Wire has re-engineered the chemical composition of any non-conforming materials to guarantee RoHS compliance, while ensuring that the product continues to deliver at least equal or superior technical performance.Marconi concluded: “Whether our customers are based in Europe or export equipment into Europe, they can continue to specify Alpha’s cable, wire and tubing products today, confident that those products not only comply with the RoHS Directive, but that they’re available from our global distribution network.”
About Alpha Wire Company
Alpha Wire’s advanced XTRA-GUARD® Series of High Performance Electronic Cables and Flexible Cables, together with the Alpha Wire INDUSTRIAL SERIES and the company’s expanded FIT® Preferred Heat Shrink Products line, set the industry standard for quality and reliability.
And Alpha Wire continues to develop the next generation of products aimed at today's high technology end user.Visit www.alphawire.com for more information.
