Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS)

Statement of Compliance

Rose Electronics will be RoHS compliant for all products by or before July 1, 2006. 

Rose Electronics recognizes the threat posed to our environment by the industrial use of hazardous materials.  It is in this spirit that we fully support the efforts of the European Union to control the use and disposal of these materials as documented in their RoHS legislation. 

The RoHS legislation will prohibit the sale of  new electrical and electronic equipment containing more than agreed to levels of lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) and polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants on the EU market beginning on July 1, 2006.

As a leading manufacturer of KVM switches, Rose Electronics understands the importance of these efforts and is in the process of implementing a comprehensive program to place Rose Electronics in compliance with the EU RoHS directives.  As part of this program, Rose Electronics has identified all non-compliant parts used in the manufacturing of our KVM products.  We, in turn, contact our suppliers to ensure they are aggressively pursuing compliance and feasible alternatives to any of the identified hazardous parts.  The final result will be a manufacturing environment and quality products that are free from environmentally hazardous material. 

In the RoHS legislation, certain exemptions have been made pertaining to particular uses of lead, mercury, cadmium and hexavalent chromium.  According to the “Annex to Directive 2002/95/EC” p.5, as amended on 10/25/05) the RoHS Approved Exemptions List includes an exemption that applies to Rose Electronics.  (Point 7:  “— lead in solders for servers, storage and storage array systems, network infrastructure equipment for switching, signaling, transmission as well as network management for telecommunications”)

We take seriously the health and safety of all our employees, our customers and anyone who could be affected by the use or improper disposal of hazardous materials.  Therefore, despite the fact that Rose Electronics’ KVM switches are exempt from the RoHS legislation, we are committed to continuing our efforts towards a hazardous material-free environment.

Therefore, by July 1, 2006, Rose Electronics will be in complete compliance with the RoHS legislation through the Approved Exemption as well as through the continuing implementation of our internal initiatives.