Although I don’t design flux, I notice the paradox that is involved with creating powerful halogen-free fluxes. The halogens in fluxes made them more active, but now flux designers need to find other ways to formulate strong fluxes. The new activators compensate for halogens in the way a turbocharger compensates for engine displacement. Halogen-free fluxes can be as powerful as traditional halogen based fluxes, and they will probably obsolete many halogen containing fluxes in the future.