RoHS Directive text as of the Oct 21st, 2005 amendment is underlined, and how it applies to Pasternack products is indicated below each Exemption.
ANNEX to ROHS DIRECTIVE 2011/65/EU
"Applications of lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) or polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) which are exempted from the requirements of Article 4(1)":
5. Lead in glass of cathode ray tubes, electronic components and fluorescent tubes.
Some Pasternack products use resistive and/or dielectric inks that contain lead in a glass phase and fall under this exemption 5.
6. Lead as an alloying element in steel containing up to 0.35% lead by weight, aluminum containing up to 0.4% lead by weight and as a copper alloy containing up to 4% lead by weight. Most Pasternack products use metal alloys that contain lead below the maximum concentration values specified under this exemption 6. Specifically: aluminum alloys, brass, stainless steel, beryllium copper and phosphor bronze.
7. Lead in solders for servers, storage and storage array systems, network infrastructure equipment for switching, signaling, transmission as well as network management for telecommunications. All Pasternack coaxial cable assemblies are made using solder containing lead (unless lead-free solder is specified), and may be used in network infrastructure equipment and therefore would fall under this exemption 7. This exemption is application specific, however, and we therefore leave it up to our customer to determine whether this exemption applies to their application.
Pasternack has loaded new part numbers for cable assemblies using lead-free solder on our website, using the
format PE3xxxxLF-yy, where “xxxx” identifies the part using the existing corresponding item number, and “yy” identifies
the length in inches. For example, PE3067LF-24 is the same as PE3067-24 (BNC Male to BNC Male, RG58C/U), except it
uses lead-free solder to be fully ROHS Compliant.