Thank-you Gentlemen, much appreciated.

Graham Naisbitt

On 25 Nov 2008, at 19:24, harvey wrote:

> Graham and John
>
> Part III of attached report uses manufacturing cost models by Ron  
> Lasky, then at Cookson, now Indium, to analyze L-F transition cost.
> Bottom line: $72B
>
> and.......
> RoHS cost: $32 billion and counting - 6/12/2008 - Purchasing
>
> Jun 12, 2008 ... When the European Union (EU) announced it would ban  
> the use of lead and five other substances from electronics  
> equipment, many industry ...
> www.purchasing.com/article/CA6565989.html
>
> Harvey Miller
>
> --- On Tue, 11/25/08, John Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: John Burke <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: RE: [TN] The cost of implementing lead-free
> To: "'TechNet E-Mail Forum'" <[log in to unmask]>, "'Graham Naisbitt'" <[log in to unmask] 
> >, "Harvey Miller" <[log in to unmask]>, "Harvey Miller" <[log in to unmask] 
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> Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 10:18 AM
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> Harvey can you help on this point for Graham please
>
> John Burke
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> -----Original Message-----
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>  November 25, 2008 9:59 AM
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> Subject: [TN] The cost of implementing lead-free
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> Techies
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> I recall at the recent IPC meeting in Schaumberg, someone saying that
> the cost to the electronics industry so far, to implement lead-free
> was USD50billion. I would like to find out if that is, as I expect,
> true and if so, where did the calculation come from? IMHO I suspect it
> is far higher and that we could have put the money to better use....!
>
> I hope someone out there in Techieland can help?
>
> Regards
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