Exempt sensors to meet RoHS requirements

Sensor firm to adopt requirements of European RoHS Directive, even though the company's products are exempt.

Lion Precision will adopt the requirements of the European RoHS Directive, even though the company's products are exempt.

President Bob Barker said, "We want to be good members of the local and global communities by choice".

"We don't require that someone insists on it".

Lion products fall under category nine of annex one: Measuring and Monitoring Equipment.

Category nine devices are exempt from the requirements of the RoHS directive.

Project Green Quality, initiated in 2005, will eventually result in the elimination of all the RoHS listed hazardous materials across Lion's product offering, beginning with the LRD line of label sensors.

Because of the exemption, all products are already in compliance and the effective date of 1st July 2006 is a secondary consideration to continued quality.

According to Barker: "Many of our label sensors will be free of the listed hazardous substances by the due date, but we feel no pressure to rush into decisions that could marginalise our quality".

As the company locates compliant component parts and processes, they will be tested to determine the effect on product quality.

If the quality is not affected, the new parts and processes will be implemented as standard.

This incremental approach will assure eventual, voluntary elimination of all listed hazardous substances in all products and reduce any damaging effects on the environment.

The European RoHS directive advances environmental responsibility by requiring limited presence of environmentally harmful materials in the production of many products.

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