National Wire Implements XRF Technology for Quality and Materials Validation

National Wire & Cable, a designer and manufacturer of commercial wire and cable products, has introduced X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) technology to assure that the company’s products follow all applicable Green manufacturing and International lead-free standards.

The company uses a Niton XL3 XRF analyzer to systematically verify its manufacturing methods including declaration of material, warehouse and completed product. An efficient record retention process helps support the compliance assurance system as well as speeds the time to answer compliance questions. A comprehensive chemical signature analysis statement is available to customers on request and a Certificate of Compliance is issued for all relevant products.

The XRF program of National Wire can furnish comprehensive quality and materials justification for the complex plastic coatings and metal alloys utilized for manufacturing cable and wire. The raw materials can follow any number of domestic and foreign sources. Coating materials are usually reduced to exact specifications. The XRF technology is used to analyze the exact arrangement of a material and validate Reach and RoHS compliance as part of National Wire’s quality control program.