The RoHS "Greening" of the Supply Chain

"It's hard not to get a little panicky over Europe's impending Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS). Consider the scope: The world's largest catalog distributor of electronic components, NewarkInOne, stocks more than 165,000 parts that commonly contain the banned materials. The distributor's database maintains specs, data sheets, inventory and price information on four million devices. "Our estimate is that 70 percent of the parts we stock will be affected by RoHS," says NewarkInOne's president, Paul Tallentire. He expects an even bigger impact on the four million devices in the database." Source: Electronic Business Online