HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM
September 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission is staging a public consultation on a bid to scrap an oncoming ban on using hexavalent chromium in chromate conversion coatings as a surface treatment in the electronics industry. Company Circuitfoil says that as the major European producer of electrodeposited copper foils for copper clad laminates and printed circuit boards, "we have no viable alternative solution" to using the potentially harmful chemical. Its use in this will be banned from next July under the European Union's directive 2002/95/EC on hazardous substances ...
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