HERNDON, VA – iNEMI says the electronics manufacturing industry must work collectively at all levels of the supply chain to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions affecting climate change.
 
Integral is development of a product carbon footprint methodology that will enable companies to quantify environmental impact of their products and easily assess tradeoffs to make improvements, says the consortium.

iNEMI members supporting the call for an industry-standard PCF methodology are Alcatel-Lucent; ASSET InterTech Inc.; Cookson Electronics; Cisco; Dell Inc.; DYCONEX; Elite Material Co. Ltd.; Guangdong Shengyi Sci. Tech Co. Ltd.; Henkel; HP; Intel Corp.; Integrated Service Technology Inc.; Industrial Technology Research Institute; Lenovo; Micro Systems Engineering Inc.; Purdue University; Quanta Computer Inc.; STATS ChipPAC; TI; Tyco Electronics, and Universal Instruments.

iNEMI’s position on product carbon footprinting can be downloaded at http://thor.inemi.org/webdownload/projects/ELSC/Position_Statement/iNEMI_PCF_Feb2010.pdf.

HONG KONG – Dow Epoxy will increase prices of its standard brominated epoxy resins, and other epoxy products, by $200 per metric ton in Asia Pacific, excluding Japan.

Also covered are liquid, solid and solid solution epoxy resins.

The increases are effective immediately, or as contract terms allow, the company said. The company also raised prices in June, August, December and January.