EU ROHS Certification Ensuring Safe And Environmentally-Friendly Products

EU ROHS 2.0 Processing Cycle
2024-06-10 10:10 Published in: Guangdong Province
What is ROHS?

RoHS is a mandatory standard enacted by EU legislation. Its full name is "Restriction of Hazardous Substances". The standard was officially implemented on July 1, 2006. It is mainly used to regulate the materials and process standards of electronic and electrical products to make them more beneficial to human health and environmental protection. The purpose of this standard is to eliminate six substances, including lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls and polybrominated diphenyl ethers, in motor and electronic products, and it is emphasized that the lead content cannot exceed 0.1%.

What is the ROHS Directive?

(ROHS Directive) 2011/65/EU

European RoHS 2011/65/EU requires six items to be tested, and the directive takes effect as the RoHS Directive.

RoHS testing items include lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg), hexavalent chromium (Cr6+), polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs).

Metal materials need to test four harmful metal elements such as (Cd cadmium/Pb lead/Hg mercury/Cr6+ hexavalent chromium)

Plastic materials need to test brominated flame retardants (polybrominated biphenyls PBB/polybrominated diphenyl ethers PBDE) in addition to these four harmful heavy metal elements

Where does ROHS come from?

RoHS is a mandatory standard formulated by EU legislation. Its full name is "Restriction of Hazardous Substances". This standard has been officially implemented on July 1, 2006. It is mainly used to regulate the materials and process standards of electronic and electrical products to make them more beneficial to human health and environmental protection. The purpose of this standard is to eliminate six substances, including lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls and polybrominated diphenyl ethers, in electrical and electronic products, and it is emphasized that the lead content cannot exceed 0.1%.

Testing principles:

According to the requirements of the EU WEEE & RoHS Directive, domestic qualified third-party testing agencies split products according to materials and test for harmful substances in different materials. Generally speaking:

·Metal materials need to be tested for four harmful metal elements such as (Cd/Pb/Hg/Cr6+hexavalent chromium)

·Plastic materials need to be tested for brominated flame retardants (polybrominated biphenyls PBB/polybrominated diphenyl ethers PBDE) in addition to these four harmful heavy metal elements

·At the same time, packaging materials of different materials also need to be tested for heavy metals in packaging materials separately (94/62/EEC)

The following are the upper limit concentrations of six harmful substances specified in RoHS:

Cadmium: less than 100ppm

Lead: less than 1000ppm

Lead in steel alloys less than 3500ppm

Lead in aluminum alloys less than 4000ppm

Copper alloys less than 40000ppm

Mercury: less than 1000ppm

Hexavalent chromium: less than 1000ppm

About Us

Shenzhen LCS Compliance Testing Laboratory Ltd., abbr. for LCS, was founded in 2004 in Shenzhen, LCS is now growing into an independent comprehensive third-party institution which focuses on test & certification. Profound technical background and diligent working attitude decided LCS with an outstanding high starting point from the outset，pioneering spirit and consciousness of keeping pace with the times which predestined the thoroughly tempered course of LCS.

Our Labs

LCS Founding Members have engineering background and had gradually built up Safety Lab, EMC Lab, RF Lab, SAR & HAC Lab, Reliability Lab, Lighting Electrical Lab, LED Lighting Performance Lab, Energy Efficiency Lab, Electronic Cigarette Testing Lab, Chemistry Lab, BQTF, Environmental and Occupational Evaluation Lab, Battery Lab, Toy Lab, Textile Lab, Food and Food Grade Material Lab. The establishment of our comprehensive labs ensure our test and certification scope covers almost all fields, such as Reliability and Safety test, EMC test, Chemical Hazardous Substances test, Material Analysis, Food Contact Material test, Bluetooth Test & Certification, Environment and Occupational Health, Performance test of spare parts of Automobile and so on.

Authorization

Moreover, LCS won many authorized qualifications both domestic and overseas. LCS is recognized as IEC/ISO17025 laboratories accepted by CNAS and NVLAP, accredited by CPSC, CMA, accredited for CQC, ISTA, CBTL, SASO, SABS. Meanwhile LCS become laboratory authorized by TUV, BQTF issued by the SIG. LCS had also signed cooperation agreements with FCC, ISED, ETL, CEC, UL, E-Mark, CETECOM, KTC, SAA Approval and many other authoritative institutions, hence we can provide our clients with efficient and professional service for product test and certification.

Experience

Our RF experience ranges from WLAN (802.11b/g/n/a/ac), Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth (802.15.1), ZigBee (802.15.4), Z-Wave, UWB (802.15.3), WiMAX (802.16), SRD, DECT, RFID, NFC, GSM, WCDMA (+HSDPA/HSUPA), LTE, 5G (NR/VoNR/eMTC/eMBB/URLLC),UHF/VHF, WHDI, AM, FM, DAB, DVB, GPS, GNSS, COMPASS, GLONASS and more. The products we are mostly working with are basestations, client adapters, laptops, cordless phones, baby monitors, cellulars, radars, sensors, scanners, receivers, immobilizers, remote controls, etc. Modern products incorporate not often one, but a variety of co-existing technologies.

Welcome

LCS is a reliable party. With more than 20 years hands-on experience in the field of Radio, Telecom, EMC and Safety certification, including country approvals worldwide, we will guide you with our knowledge. You are very welcome!

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