MILPITAS, Calif., March 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sipex Corporation
(OTC: SIPX.PK), today announced that with increased environmental compliance
efforts, and to meet EU Reduction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive
2002/95/EC, it is now in compliance with this directive for all of its
standard packaging when ordered as lead-free. All Sipex lead-free standard
packages are now certified compliant to the European directive beating the
June 2006 deadline. This directive requires that lead-free packaging contain
less than 1,000ppm for the top five hazardous packaging substances and 100ppm
for Cadmium.
Customers who require lead-free RoHS-compliant packaging can order the
standard part numbers with a "-L" suffix. The use of this suffix, instead of
a product date code, was designed to make it easier for the Customer to
control the hazardous substance content of the product they receive. This new
packaging identifier reduces confusion and increases order fulfillment
accuracy, in addition to providing the assurance of chemical content for the
Customer.
"Sipex made the decision to add the -L suffix to its lead-free packaging
based on Customer input. This will make ordering lead-free product as clear
cut as possible, and ensure that Customers are receiving the product type they
require," said Fred Claussen, Vice President of Corporate Quality and
Reliability for Sipex.
Sipex began its lead-free production program over three years ago, leading
many of its competitors in the transition. In order to better serve its
Customers, all packaging information is available on the Sipex corporate
website: http://www.sipex.com . In keeping with its corporate environmental
mission, and in support of industry regulatory and Customer compliance
requirements, Sipex has achieved ISO14001 certification, and has been named
both a Sony Green Partner and Samsung ECO partner.
About Sipex Corporation
Sipex Corporation is a semiconductor company that designs, manufactures
and markets high performance, value-added analog integrated circuits (IC).
Sipex serves the broad analog signal processing market with interface, power
management and optical storage ICs for use in automotive, portable products,
computing, communications, and networking infrastructure markets. The company
is headquartered in Milpitas, California with additional offices in Belgium,
Canada, China, Germany, Japan and Taiwan. Sipex sells products direct and
through its distribution channels. For more information about Sipex, visit
http://www.sipex.com.
For additional information, contact:
Fred Claussen, VP Corporate Quality
Tel: 408-934-7500
Email: FClaussen@sipex.com
SOURCE Sipex Corporation
 back to top
Related links:
http://www.sipex.com
Company News On-Call:
http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/111683.html
CONTACT:
Fred Claussen, VP Corporate Quality of Sipex
Corporation, +1-408-934-7500, or FClaussen@sipex.com
|
