Basic Environmental Policy
In order to protect not only the local environment but also the global environment, we maintain and manage the environmental management system, work to reduce the environmental burden, and protect the global environment.
In order to promote business activities with a low environmental impact, all people involved in our business activities work together to act on the following items.
- In order to reduce the impact on the environment in the processes from order receipt to shipment and in the materials used in those processes, we will set objectives and targets to be achieved to the extent technically and economically possible.
- We will establish an environmental management system to implement these measures and engage in activities for continuous improvement and pollution prevention.
- To this end, we will regularly evaluate and review the degree of achievement of these targets and improve our environmental management system.
- We will understand environmental laws, regulations, and rules, and will comply with all items subject to management, including other requirements to which we agree and customer requests, while providing information to the local community and cooperating in environmental conservation.
This environmental policy will be communicated to all employees and those working for our company, and will be disclosed to the public.
We are proactively working to protect the environment, developing, producing and supplying products that are friendly to the global environment.
Regulation values for 10 regulated substances
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All of our power cords are compliant with the 10 substances regulated by RoHS2 * 1 .
Due to their shape, the metal pins in the plug of a power cord are usually manufactured from brass to which lead has been intentionally added in excess of regulated values in order to improve machinability and workability.
For this reason, exemptions that are granted for a limited period of time for products that contain restricted substances and for which no substitutes are technically or scientifically possible are used.
There are many substances, and the purpose, usage amount, and expiration date are specified for each substance. *2
This exemption has a set period of availability, and the second expiration date is on July 21, 2021, and an extension of this period is currently under discussion.
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According to a report from an organization commissioned to investigate the deadline for extending the deadline , verification of alternative products has not been sufficient, and there are economic issues involved in switching to alternative products.
However, as of January 2023, the matter is still under review, so the deadline will be automatically extended and the deadline will not be extended.
It is still available for use.
Starting with production in January 2022, we will be changing the materials used for metal pins to materials with a lead content of 1,000 ppm or less and that do not use exemptions.
Issues that may arise in the future due to the expiration of exemptions, such as sourcing and selecting alternative products, have already been resolved.
In addition, we cooperate with the conservation of the global environment from the viewpoint of reducing the use of lead, which is a substance with a high environmental impact, and confirm with material manufacturers that they are RoHS2 compliant.
We also thoroughly manage RoHS2 compliance by conducting our own analyses of specific chemical substances in purchased parts and materials.
*1 Directive 2011/65/EU as amended by (EU) 2015/863
*2 Directive 2011/65/EU Annex n.6(c) [Copper alloy containing up to 4 % lead by weight]
RoHS Directive Annex III n.6(c) [Lead in copper alloys (brass) containing up to 4% by weight]
*3 Öco-Institut.eV [RoHS_Pack-22_final_report_amended_February_2022]
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