RoHS/WEEE

Many independant distributors are struggling with how to juggle stock levels of non RoHS compliant parts. I think there will be a shortage of both compliant and non compliant parts. Emphasis on compliant as it was with the surface mount transition. I stocked a lot of through hole IC's and did OK, but the surface mount shortage was a real windfall for BCD Electro and most of the other independent distributors I know that were operating back then... was it 90-91?

As far a s WEEE is concerned, this is an opportunity for companies that have backgrounds in surplus and excess inventory management. PLM is the new term and is much more sophisticated than we were just a few years ago. Very interesting times.