The cost of Chinese electronic manufacturing industry going green is increasing

And came into effect in August 13, 2005 "on the waste electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive" (WEEE directive) "thunder and rain", once the implementation of RoHS directive effect to the enterprise will be immediate.

WEEE instruction does not significantly influence a few, one is WEEE by the vendor is responsible, so the impact on manufacturers is indirect; two is because the EU corresponding laws and perfect recycling system requires a certain period of time, the impact is progressive. Currently only Switzerland, Sweden and other Nordic countries on time to implement the WEEE directive, while China's exports to the Nordic market is very small, so the limited impact of the temporary 6.

Different from the WEEE directive, the impact of the RoHS directive, which came into force in July 1st, will be even more pronounced. At the same time, the EU's two directives can not be regarded as the EU's internal regulations, because the EU's environmental regulations and standards are often cited by more countries in the world. For example, the United States, Japan and other countries have learned from the EU's two environmental laws, the introduction of their own environmental regulations. RoHS directive will become an important symbol of global electronic green regulations. After the RoHS directive, the EU will introduce more stringent management measures, such as "chemical registration, assessment and licensing management directive" (REACH directive), etc..

RoHS directive on electronic products the most direct impact to increase costs, according to the calculation of the average cost of the implementation of the directive will rise 10%. According to the survey, 64% of the predicted electronic manufacturers comply with the requirements of RoHS directive will make the product prices, 35% manufacturers predict prices will rise in 5%; 23% of the manufacturers forecast price increase will be between 5 and 10%; 6% of the manufacturers forecast price increase will reach more than 10%. At the same time, RoHS will also affect the entire electronic, electrical products industry chain. For the raw materials, such as PCB, components, cables, machinery parts, accessories and other products of all the used materials and spare parts, to meet the requirements of the RoHS directive, so the impact on the enterprises of raw materials, components and related chemical products production is very large. In addition, the enterprise will also face many challenges, such as technical realization, testing and certification.

As a global manufacturing base of electronic products, mechanical and electrical products have occupied the main aspects of China's exports. According to the chamber of Commerce for import and export of electromechanical products Chinese data show that in the year 2005 China electromechanical products exports amounted to $426 billion 750 million, the proportion of China exports reached 56%, the EU is China electromechanical products second export market, exports amounted to $90 billion 480 million, after the United States, which Chinese electrical products exports to the EU each year nearly $20 billion. So the RoHS directive has a profound impact on Chinese enterprises.

Asian electronics manufacturers RoSH compliance

It should be said that China's electronic manufacturing enterprises on the RoHS directive is very seriously, according to statistics, 50% of China's electronics manufacturers to complete the RoSH certification. From 2005, TCL announced the acquisition of RoHS pass in December, ZTE launched the first domestic lead free mobile phone, China's electronic manufacturing enterprises in, frequently to the RoHS standard attack. However, because most of China's electronic manufacturing export enterprises still rely on price advantage to seize the foreign market, increasing costs will weaken its competitiveness. RoHS directive will bring huge cost and technical challenges to the electronic manufacturing enterprises in China. At present, there are two important problems in the field of electronic manufacturing enterprises in china.

First, lack of management experience. The RoHS instruction needs to implement all aspects of product design, manufacturing, testing and trade, so China electronic manufacturing enterprises need to establish the enterprise RoHS management system, the completion of the upgrading of raw materials, production process and production line, but also spend a lot of time and money for RoHS certification.

Two is a large number of technical problems. RoHS instructions to remove six kinds of harmful substances used in the original production process, in order to meet the functional requirements of products, enterprises must find suitable alternative substances, but not all of the harmful substances can find a suitable replacement. Even if there is a replacement technology and alternative materials, Chinese electronics manufacturers have to consider the full replacement of the cost pressures of existing technologies.

But the rational analysis, the RoHS instruction is not only for China's electronic manufacturing enterprises, compared with other industries, China's electronic manufacturing enterprises can be said to have a competitive strength, especially with global competitiveness in terms of cost control. Although the implementation of the RoHS directive to a certain extent, improve the cost of the company, but to some extent also effectively improve the export of products, entry threshold, more conducive to the future development of the industry. In the face of the impact of the global electronics manufacturing industry, in fact, also implies a certain increase in market share, improve product level opportunities. From the enterprise, we are ready for the leading enterprises. These enterprises due to the obvious advantages of scale, strong ability to resist risks, will get a good opportunity for industry consolidation. The air conditioning industry leading enterprises such as GREE G, G beauty, color TV industry GTCL, G lighting industry as the Buddha, the communication enterprises G waveguide, ZTE and other G components such as G and Zhen Hua; Shengyi technology.