RoHS-II

More safety for people and the environment

The abbreviation RoHS stands for Restriction of Hazardous Substances and regulates the use of selected hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment, including cables. By complying with this guideline, companies demonstrate that problematic constituents, such as e.g. lead, mercury or phthalates known as plasticizers - have been banned from electronic waste but also from working environments. One example is lead. It occurs in production systems in the form of tin solder on circuit boards, which are built into complex machine systems in a variety of ways. In recent years, materials research has also produced new jacket materials which do not require hazardous plasticizers and thus function flexibly in dynamic applications. Until now, plasticisers have been used in industry mainly where plastics had to remain particularly pliable, soft and elastic in use. igus® develops and tests special jacket materials for use in e-chains in its own laboratory that are RoHS II/III compliant.