Packaging & Interconnects: Lead-Free Cables Satisfy Global, U.S. Environmental Standards

May 24, 2004
The lead-free, heavy-metal-free Madison brand cable meets several national and international environmental initiatives. These include California's Proposition 65; WEEE and RoHS European directives that will take effect in 2006; and UL, CSA, and...

The lead-free, heavy-metal-free Madison brand cable meets several national and international environmental initiatives. These include California's Proposition 65; WEEE and RoHS European directives that will take effect in 2006; and UL, CSA, and ANSI standards. The cables employ proprietary polymer compounds for both primary and jacket insulations, allowing them to be manufactured in flexible and standard versions. The compounds don't use polybrominated diphenyls (PBDs), polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE), cadmium, mercury, or hexavelent chromium. Pricing ranges from under $100/1000 ft to over $4000/1000 ft, depending on cable style.

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Roger Allan

Roger Allan is an electronics journalism veteran, and served as Electronic Design's Executive Editor for 15 of those years. He has covered just about every technology beat from semiconductors, components, packaging and power devices, to communications, test and measurement, automotive electronics, robotics, medical electronics, military electronics, robotics, and industrial electronics. His specialties include MEMS and nanoelectronics technologies. He is a contributor to the McGraw Hill Annual Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. He is also a Life Senior Member of the IEEE and holds a BSEE from New York University's School of Engineering and Science. Roger has worked for major electronics magazines besides Electronic Design, including the IEEE Spectrum, Electronics, EDN, Electronic Products, and the British New Scientist. He also has working experience in the electronics industry as a design engineer in filters, power supplies and control systems.

After his retirement from Electronic Design Magazine, He has been extensively contributing articles for Penton’s Electronic Design, Power Electronics Technology, Energy Efficiency and Technology (EE&T) and Microwaves RF Magazine, covering all of the aforementioned electronics segments as well as energy efficiency, harvesting and related technologies. He has also contributed articles to other electronics technology magazines worldwide.

He is a “jack of all trades and a master in leading-edge technologies” like MEMS, nanolectronics, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, military electronics, biometrics, implantable medical devices, and energy harvesting and related technologies.

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