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The environmental push of companies toward halogen-free is driven by environmental organizations such a Greenpeace providing examples of poor recyclin...
The environmental push of companies toward halogen-free is driven by environmental organizations such a Greenpeace providing examples of poor recyclin...
Much of the environmental push toward elimination of halogens is actually NGOs (such as Greenpeace) requesting that the large electronics companies el...
I often hear that someone needs an “L0” flux or solder paste. It cracks me up because L0 doesn’t really mean anything in today&rsquo...
There is a significant amount of discussion on what should constitute halogen-free. Most camps have leaned toward the 900 ppm of Br and 900 ppm of Cl...
Indium Corporation has just released a completely halogen-free wave solder flux that performs in a Pb-free process similar to its halogenated counterp...
Check out the IPC website to hear me discuss halogen-free challenges. I review many of the things that I have discussed in previous blog entries. Clic...
As I discuss the differences between “halogen-free” and “halide-free” with respect to solder pastes and fluxes for electronics...
I recently attended and spoke at the IPC’s conference in Boston titles “It’s Not Easy Being Green.” There was tons of useful i...
Indium Corporation’s industry leading semiconductor bloggers are hosting a Meet the Bloggers session on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at Indium Corpora...
If you can make your way to Orlando in August, Dr. Ron Lasky and I will be presenting a 1/2 day workshop on halogen-free. It is tutorial #T21......
On July 16th and 17th, the IPC has organized a 2-day event in Boston to discuss the challenges with environmentally friendly electronics assembly. A s...
No vulgarity here, but there is a lot of questions in the electronics industry as to whether the term “halogen-free should include Fluorine (F)....