NS Restricted Substances List(for Consumer products)

Management and Operation～Request to Suppliers～
Edition 2 : Revised Apr. 2024

Consumer Product Business Headquarters
NIPPON SEIKI CO., LTD.
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INDEX� Purpose and Background� NS Restricted Substances List (for Consumer products)
� Request to Suppliers
� Revision History

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Purpose and Background
It is now well known that as environmental concerns has been
rising globally, restrictions of chemical substances included inproducts are accordingly enhanced by various laws andregulations. Thus, manufacturers of Articles and/orPreparations have to satisfy every applicable laws andregulations depending on its usage and destination.
To comply with these restrictions, we NIPPON SEIKI CO., LTD(“NS”hereafter) have decided to adopt “NS Restricted
Substances List (for Consumer products)”.
Target：Parts used in Consumer products.
Parts requested to be reported by chemSHERPA

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NS Restricted Substances List (for Consumer products)
We define the chemSHERPA Declarable Substances List, which
is managed by the Article Management Promotion-Consortium(JAMP), as the “NS Restricted Substances List (for Consumerproducts)”.
However, as markets and customers request us to comply with
their original restrictions of chemical substances. Therefore, inorder to satisfy those various requirements and restrictions,please provide information about substances which contained inproducts regardless of their content and concentration. We
judge if it is Conforming or Non-Conforming.
chemSHERPA Declarable Substances List Publication site
https://chemsherpa.net/tool#declarable※Please refer to the latest list from the above URL.
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Request to Suppliers
Target：Parts used in Consumer products.
１) Provision of information about substance on thechemSHERPA Declarable Substances List.
If any of the substances listed in the chemSHERPA Declarable Substances List
are contained in the product, please report in the chemSHERPA format
regardless of the content and concentration.

※chemSHERPA format
Information transmission scheme managed by the Article Management Promotion-Consortium (JAMP)
https://chemsherpa.net/

For users who have downloaded chemSHERPA, a notification E-mail will be sentby the JAMP Secretariat to update the tool. At that time, please check thelatest version list, and immediately contact us if any substance is found to be
newly contained or any changes have been made to the chemSHERPA data
already reported to us. (For inquiries regarding Green Procurement Guidelines,please refer to the EMS&Component Headquarters Dept.)

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Target：Parts used in Consumer products.
２) Provision of information about Red Phosphorus content.
In the case of products containing Red Phosphorus, please fill in the substancename "Red phosphorus" (CAS number: 7723-14-0) in the chemSHERPA data
as voluntary declarable substances and respond.

３) Additive agents such as flame retardants and plasticizers
Regarding additive agents such as flame retardants and plasticizers, even if
they are less than 0.1wt%, please invariably report them in chemSHERPA.
In particular, when TOTM is used as an additive, DEHP of a RoHS-regulated
substance might be produced as an impurity during the manufacturing process.
Please be sure to report and list them in chemSHERPA.
※TOTM : Tris(2-ethylhexyl) Trimellitate, CAS No.3319-31-1

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Revision History
Edition

Revision date

Description of revisions made1Mar.20,2020

Establish

2Apr.01,2024

Add the following to the “Request tosuppliers”
３) Additive agents such as flame
retardants and plasticizers

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