WEEE Directive

All EndRun Technologies products are handled as B2B category products.  In order for you to secure a WEEE-compliant waste disposal please return the product to us at our home office in California, U.S.A.  Costs for this end-of-life transportation are your responsibility.  We will bear the direct costs for the waste disposal itself.


RoHS Directive

At EndRun Technologies, we are committed to operate in an environmentally responsible manner and comply with applicable environmental regulations.  The European Union's Directive on Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS) took effect on July 1, 2006.  The RoHS Directive prohibits the sale into the European Union of electronic equipment containing lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs) and polybrominated diphenylethers (PBDEs).  Manufacturers are responsible for eliminating these substances from their products.

Category 9 products, which include Monitoring and Control Instruments, are excluded from the Directive.  Category 3 products, which include Information Technology and Telecommunications Products, are subject to the RoHS Directive; however, the Directive allows a lead-in-solder exemption for certain categories of these products to help the industry validate the long-term reliability of lead-free solder.  Lead is a common element in many solders today, with a 50-year reliability record.  This exemption covers the use of lead in "solders for servers, storage and storage array systems, network infrastructure equipment for switching, signaling, transmission as well as network management for telecommunications".

Compliance
EndRun Technologies products, which fall under Category 3 and Category 9 of the RoHS Directive, are currently RoHS-compliant.  Although certain exemptions and exclusions apply to Category 3 and Categroy 9 equipment, EndRun Technologies is committed to eliminating the use of all hazardous substances.  We will migrate to lead-free solder as soon as we are confident that it will ensure our customers the reliability they require.  We have replaced 95% of the components used in our products with ROHS-compliant versions and we are in the process of identifying suitable replacements for those few components that do not have RoHS-compliant versions.