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Lion Precision Voluntarily Adopts RoHS Standards, Despite ExemptionSt. Paul, MN USA, March 26, 2006 High-resolution, CMYK images and press releases are available for download in our pressroom. Lion Precision will adopt the requirements of European RoHS directive, even though the company’s products are exempt. New president, Bob Barker said, “We want to be good members of the local and global communities by choice. We don’t require that someone insist on it.” Lion Precision products fall under category 9 of Annex 1: Measuring and Monitoring Equipment. Category 9 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 Precision’s broad product offering, beginning with the market leading LRD line of label sensors. Because of the exemption, all products are already in compliance and the effective date of July 1, 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 marginilize 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 minimize 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. Lion Precision is a leading supplier of high-precision, noncontact capacitive and eddy-current displacement sensors. These technologies have been adapted to application specific products such as the LRD series of label sensors, ThreadSense thread-detection sensors and the one-of-a-kind Spindle Error Analyzer. Those with questions are urged to contact Lion Precision directly for more information at:
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