Group Environmental Report 2005

Approach for Elimination of Poisonous Substances

Targets of the Third Environmental Action Plan

Hazardous Substances Designated by Fujitsu Group

Hazardous Substances Elimination
Activity and Result

Substances prohibited for use in products (27)●Substances banned for use in products (4)Cadmium and its compounds
Hexavalent chromium compounds

Lead and its compounds
Mercury and its compounds

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How to Control Hazardous Chemical Substances

FDK Group Hazardous Chemical Substances Control Process
Process 2 (Control)

Process 3 (Assurance)

Obtains information on chemical substances containedin purchased products to use only the ones complying
to FDK Group s control criteria.

Prevents designated chemical substances frommixing and polluting into the manufacturing process
and maintains non-use of them.

Assures our customers that theproduct does not contain any chemical substances.

Suppliers

Standards and regulations, etc.
Chemical Substances ControllingStandards,
Chemical Substances Controlling
Regulations, etc.

Receiving

Purchased Products
Requests to suppliers,
Investigation of chemical substances used,
Establishment of controlling chemicalsubstances, etc.

Inspection

Production
Process

Shipment

Inspection

Inspection

Assurance Letter, etc.

ProductsCustomers

As a Global Citizen

Information to be supplied form suppliers①Certiﬁcate of Non-Use of Hazardous
Chemical Substances②Investigation Sheet③Analysis Report④MSDS⑤Chemical Composition Report⑥Declaration (that the supplier certiﬁes
the correctness and accuracy of thedetails contained in②to⑤.)

Promotion ofGreen Factories

Process 1 (Collection of Information)

Measures for Global
Warming Prevention

With the idea that any product containing hazardous substances isa defect, FDK Group determines to strengthen control of such substancesby incorporating it into the Group s quality assurance system.
More precisely, standards in relation to them will be improved andimplemented in a three-stage process of collection of information
control and assurance.

Promotion of Environmental
Measures on Products

In ﬁscal 2004, an investigation was made to 1403 substances designated by FDK, including those designated by Fujitsu Group.
The results were accumulated in ECO-DB (the database systemof the FDK Group on the environmental burden of chemical substances) and an examination was made to change designated hazardous substances to alternative ones. The Committee for Products Containing Hazardous Chemical Substances discussed thepossibility of strengthening controls on hazardous chemical substances, and a rule for controlling and elimination of them as
FDK Group was examined.
As a result, the hazardous substances designated in the RoHS
Directive were totally eliminated in manufacturing newly developed products by the end of December 2004 as aimed by thecompany. However, some of them were not able to be eliminatedin manufacturing current products because of unconﬁrmed
reliability of alternative substances. For these materials, we will
gradually shift to use alternative ones by checking the quality ofthem. As for hazardous substances designated by Fujitsu Group,
we will examine and change to alternative materials aiming ateliminating the use of hazardous substances by the end of ﬁscal
2005.

Promotion ofGreen Procurement●Speciﬁed amines
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)(Those which contact to skin directly and for a long time only)
Polychlorinated naphthalenes●Azo dyes and azo pigments that generate speciﬁed amines(with 3 or more chlorine atoms)●Asbestoses(Those which contact to skin directly and for a long time only)●CFCs●Chlordanes●Speciﬁed halons●DDT●Carbon tetrachloride●AldrinOzone●1,1,1-Trichloroethane●Endrindepleting●Bromochloromethane
substances ●Dieldrin●Methyl bromide●Hexachlorobenzene●HBFCs
●N,N'-ditolyl-p-phenylenediamine,●Polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs)
N-tolyl-N'-xylyl-p-phenylenediamine●Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs)
and N,N'-dixylyl-p-phenylenediamine●Short-chained chlorinated paraﬃns●2,4,6-tri-tert-butylphenol●Bis (tri-n-butyltin) oxide (TBTO)●Toxaphene●Tributyl tins (TBTs), Triphenyl tins (TPTs) ●Mirex●Promotion of Environmental
Management

To eliminate use of hazardous substances designated by Fujitsu Group in manufacturing products by the end of ﬁscal 2005, except for
those designated by RoHS whose elimination target is the end of December 2004
・Use of hazardous substances listed in 31 categories of Fujitsu Group s list will be totally eliminated by the end of ﬁscal 2005.
・For products shipped to Europe and covered under the RoHS Directive, use of mercury, hexavalent chromium compounds, PBBand PBDE will be totally eliminated by the end of December 2004.

Basic Policy for Environment
and Action Plan

FDK Group is taking an eﬀort to totally eliminate the use of hazardous substances in production. In order to respond to the requests ofcustomers for assurance of non-use and control of such materials as well as to comply with the requirement of the RoHS Directive, FDKGroup established the Committee for Products Containing Hazardous Chemical Substances in October 2004 to commence control ofproducts containing hazardous chemical substances in our premises in and out of Japan.

※Inspection means to check if the chemical substances
are appropriately controlled or not.

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