According to research from AMR Research, the electronics industry in the United States alone will spend $30 billion over the next five years on RoHS compliance. In a research brief by AMR’s Eric Karofsky, AMR claims the industry will spend an average of 3 percent of top line revenue to rectify compliance problems. Karofsky says this is a conservative estimate, as some companies are spending as much as 6 percent of revenue on compliance.
Karofsky sees the problem as twofold. One, most electronics sold in the European Union are affected, except those needed for national infrastructure, the military and some medical devices. Two, even those products exempt from RoHS face a changing supply as component manufacturers change products and discontinue leaded parts.
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