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| Ramtron Environmental Policy |
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| Ramtron International Corporation will be a responsible corporate citizen in protecting the environment. We will: |
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- Continually improve our environmental management system
- Minimize the creation of wastes and prevent pollution
- Comply with legal and other requirements
- Manage our processes, our materials, and our people in order to reduce the environmental impacts associated with our work
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Ramtron's Green Initiative
All of Ramtron's 8-pin SOIC FRAM products are now available in environmentally friendly "green" packaging. Responding to the industry’s drive toward the lead-free packaging of electronic products, Ramtron has removed lead (Pb) from finished packaging as well as brominated, flame-retarding compounds from encapsulants and substrates. The company’s packages meet or exceed the requirements of the joint IPC/JEDEC standard, J-STD-020B, and are compliant with European Union requirements set to take effect in 2006. The European Commission Directives, Japanese legislation and worldwide market pressures have spearheaded the move toward the environmentally friendly manufacturing of electronic components. |
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Ramtron Green Packaging and Other Environmental Issues 11/14/2008  (532 KB) |
| Ramtron Green Packaging and Other Environmental Issues and Data Including Regulatory Compliance to RoHS, WEEE, ELV and JIG (11/2008) |
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About "Green" Packaging
Lead is widely used in semiconductor packaging as a coating on package pins to enhance solderability; as the die attach in power IC packages; and for the collapsible balls of ball grid array (BGA) packages. The elimination of lead and other elements is driving fundamental changes in the way semiconductor components are manufactured. A partial list of banned substances includes lead, mercury (Hg), cadmium (Cd), hexavalent chromium (Cr+6), polybrominated biphenyls (PBB), and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE). |
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Labeling for Packages
Green packaging has a "G" at the end of the part number and the Standard packaging (not Green) has an "S" at the end of the part number — as seen below. |
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