Industry/Sector: Electronics manufacturing
TURI provides grants to academic researchers to support efforts to find and develop safer alternatives to harmful chemicals.
Industry/Sector: Electronics manufacturing
TURI offers grants to help Massachusetts businesses adopt safer alternatives to toxic chemicals.
Industry/Sector: Electronics manufacturing
Transene Company, a manufacturer of advanced materials for the electronics
industry, wanted to find viable alternatives to perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
use in semiconductor manufacturing in response to customer demands for
PFAS-free products.
Industry/Sector: Electronics manufacturing
Transene, a manufacturer of advanced materials for the electronics industry, eliminated PFAS from a production process to provide customers with new, safer etching products.
Industry/Sector: Electronics manufacturing
By Maria Kahale
Information about the hazards of, uses of, and safer alternatives to DMF.
Industry/Sector: Electronics manufacturing
Reduced the use of strong acids and bases, meeting demand from brand-name electronics customers who prefer working with socially responsible companies.
Industry/Sector: Electronics manufacturing
An electronic component manufacturer eliminated the use of perchloroethylene (perc), a neurotoxin and likely carcinogen.
Industry/Sector: Electronics manufacturing
A manufacturer of electronic capacitors, saved $46,000 per year working with TURI to find a safer alternative to n-propyl bromide (nPB) in cleaning processes.
Industry/Sector: Electronics manufacturing
The governing body of the Toxics Use Reduction Act (TURA) program voted to add most PFAS – often referred to as “forever chemicals” because they never fully break down in the environment – under legislation that has successfully helped businesses reduce the use of toxic chemicals in a wide array of industrial processes.
Industry/Sector: Electronics manufacturing
CD Aero, located in New Bedford, Massachusetts, shares lessons learned as they eliminated the use of n-propyl bromide (nPB), a TURA Higher Hazard Substance that is “reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen” by the National Toxicology Program.
