CEM-3551-24B/E

CHEMI-CON Group
Green Procurement Standards―Ver. 5.1c ―Established

July 1, 2005

RevisedJune 27 2024

Enforced

June 27, 2024

Nippon Chemi-Con Corporation

Introduction
Since the "Paris Agreement," efforts to protect the global environment have become unavoidable
issues for the sustainable development of society. The corporate philosophy of the CHEMI-CON
Group is "Contributing to Environmentally and People Friendly Technology." Based on thisphilosophy, we have promoted energy saving, 3R promotion, biodiversity conservation, andcountermeasures for climate change risks.
Furthermore, laws and regulations as well as customer requests regarding chemical substances inproducts are becoming stricter day by day. In response to this, based on "Management of Chemical
Substances in Products (CiP)," we are working to reduce the environmental load of all businesses,
including procurement of materials and parts, product development, manufacturing, and sales.
These activities cannot achieve its purpose by the efforts of our group alone. This goal ofcompliance with laws and ensuring customer satisfaction requires the cooperation of suppliers andupstream supply chains.
This "CHEMI-CON Group Green Procurement Standard" has a wide range of requirements. We
ask for our suppliers’ understanding and cooperation.
In this standard, we will check the submitted documents and the response status of the following.
・ CHEMI-CON Green Supplier Approval System (Environmental / Quality Management System)
・ Global Environmental Conservation Activities (reduction of greenhouse gases, conservation ofbiodiversity, etc.)
・ Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)・ Business Continuity Plan (BCP)・ Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)・ Climate Change Adaptation (CCA)
By promoting green procurement activities through the supply chain, we aim to develop,
manufacture and sell "products that are more environmentally friendly and can be used bycustomers with a sense of security."
We appreciate your understanding and cooperation.
Nippon Chemi-Con Corporation
SCM Procurement Department
Environment Group, Administration Department,
Supplier Quality Management Group, Quality Assurance Dept. I.

Index
1. Position of the Green Procurement Standards ................................................. 2
2. Definitions of terms ......................................................................................... 3–4
3. Practice of the Green Procurement Standards ................................................. 5–74. Participation to the Environmental protection activities ................................. 8
5. CHEMI-CON Green Supplier Approval System ............................................. 8
6. Applicable CHEMI-CON Group Company .................................................... 9
7. Revision history ............................................................................................... 101

1. Position of The Green Procurement Standards(1) Purpose
The Green Procurement Standards specify requirements that must be observed in procuring
materials, parts, products, etc. from suppliers.
(2) ScopeThe Standards apply to materials, parts, products, and packaging materials procured by
CHEMI-CON Group companies (hereafter referred to as “procured items”) as well as tosuppliers of such items.
“CHEMI-CON Group companies” refers to Nippon Chemi-Con Corporation and all its
subsidiaries and affiliated companies as specified in the section 6. (CHEMI-CON Groupcompanies are referred to as “our company” in the Standards).
(3) Confidentiality
It should be noted that survey documents and other reference documents submitted to ourcompany may be disclosed upon requests from public agencies or our customers.
In such cases, we will give thoughtful attention to ensure that suppliers cannot be identified in
the disclosed information.
We will abide by the pertinent laws and regulations concerning proper handling of informationin order to protect the private information of suppliers.
(4) Revision
The Standards are subject to revision due to reasons such as changes in laws, social demands,and technological advancement. When the Standards are revised, if procured items are foundnon-compliant to the Standards, please contact our procurement officer immediately.
(5) Contact
For inquiries, please contact the following:
Nippon Chemi-Con Corporation
SCM Procurement Department
Phone:+81-3-5436-7630
Facsimile: +81-3-5436-7719
Supplier Quality Management Group, Quality Assurance Dept. I
Phone:+81-3-5436-7633
Facsimile: +81-3-5436-7596

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2. Definitions of terms(1) Controlled Chemical Substances“Controlled chemical substances” refers to chemical substances which our company deems themnecessary to prohibit their use or monitor their containment in procured items.
1) Banned substances
Chemical substances that are not allowed to be contained in procured items. Those chemicalsubstances must not be added intentionally, and must be less than threshold limits set in thestandards.
2) Reportable substances
Chemical substances that are controlled in our company. Containment information isrequired.
3) SVHC
Chemical substances that are specified by ECHA (European Chemicals Agency) inaccordance with REACH regulations.
- Authorization substances (listed in Annex XIV of the REACH Regulation)- Candidate substances for Authorization
4) Global Automotive Declarable Substances List (GADSL)GADSL is the global standard list of chemical substances for declaration within theautomotive industry. Chemical substances are classified into 3 types;
P: (Prohibit) Prohibited in all applications
D/P: (Declarable/Prohibit) Prohibit in certain applications, and declarable in other use
D: (Declarable) Required declaration of containment(2) Homogeneous materials
A material that cannot be mechanically (including unscrewing, cutting, crushing, grinding andabrasive processes) disjointed into uniform composition.
Basic concept of homogeneous materials (examples)
The following are some examples of homogeneous materials.
Example 1: Lead wire
Tin-plating layer
Copper under-plating layer

Iron wire

3This example shows alead wire that consists ofthree homogeneousmaterials: tin-platinglayer, copper
under-plating layer, andiron wire.

Example 2: Outer sleeve

Outer sleeve

Capacitor
Labeling ink

In this example, the outersleeve and labeling ink
are homogeneousmaterials. Note that if
different ink colors areused, each color isregarded as a different
homogeneous material.

Example 3: Coated aluminum caseCoating material (resin)

Aluminum (case body)

The aluminum case inthis example is made of
two homogenous
materials: case body(aluminum) and coatingmaterial (resin).

(3) Threshold limit
Maximum concentration limit allowed in the homogeneous materials of a procured item.
(4) Containment
A condition in which an applicable chemical substance is present in a procured item.
1) Intentional use
The addition of a certain chemical substance to a procured item for the purpose of achieving
specific functions.
2) Impurity
A substance which is contained in a natural material and cannot be removed completely
during the manufacturing processes due to technical limitations, or a substance which isgenerated during a synthetic reaction process and cannot be removed due to technicallimitations.
(5) Plastic
A material that includes high polymers, such as general-purpose plastic, engineering plastic,synthetic fiber, synthetic rubber, ink, paint, and adhesive.
(6) Packaging materials
Materials that are used for transportation and protection of products, parts, and materials.
(7) Supplementary materials
Machine oil, cleaning solution, office supplies etc. for the manufacturing process.

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3. Practice of the Standards(1) Purpose
The purpose of practicing the Standards are to comprehend the conditions of chemical
substances contained in procured items and to confirm compliancy of procured items to theStandards.
(2) Scope
Apply to all procured items of our company. (Excluding those are supplied by our company)
1) Materials
Chemicals, metallic materials, resin polymers, inks, soldering materials, binders, pastes,adhesives, tapes, paper, rubber, etc.
2) Parts
Mechanical parts (Machine molded parts, screws), electronic parts (PCBs, devices), units,modules, assembled parts, etc.
3) Packaging materials
Applicable only to packaging materials for which our company use for transportation andprotection of our products, parts, and materials.
4) Supplementary materials
Procured items that our company specifies.
5) Other procured items
Procured items which our company specified other than the above.
e.g. jig, tool, office supply, mold, equipment(3) Documents to be submitted
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Reportable substances
declaration form
High-precision
analysis result

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×：Not necessary5The latest Standards and formats can be found under following URL.
Japanese: https://www.chemi-con.co.jp/company/procurement/download.html
English: https://www.chemi-con.co.jp/en/company/procurement/download.html
Chinese: https://www.chemi-con.co.jp/cn/company/procurement/download.html*1 Certificate of Non-containment (Attached From 1)
Please submit the Form 1 for all procured items supplied by you.
Applicable chemical substances, laws, scope, threshold limits, use, exemptions shallbe referred to “CHEMI-CON Group List of Controlled Chemical Substances”.
If procured items contain banned substance by a request from our company,
please submit a certificate except for the substance.
*2 Reportable Substance Declaration Form (Attached Form 2)
Please submit the Form 2 for all procured items supplied by you regardlessof containment of those reportable substances.
If you find procured items are not in compliant to the Standards, or contain substances
should be reported, please contact the procurement officer in charge immediately.
*3 Analysis data
Actual analysis results must be submitted in order to verify that the threshold limits
specified by our company are satisfied in procured items.
i) Analysis institution
We recommend ISO/IEC17025 certified laboratoryii) Analysis data
High precision analysis data conducted in accordance with IEC62321 or EN62321.
iii) Target substances
Procured items shall be tested per homogeneous materials for following substances;
Metals: Pb, Cd, Hg, Cr6+ (4 substance groups)
Others: Pb, Cd, Hg, Cr6+, PBB, PBDE, DEHP, DBP, BBP, DIBP (10 substance groups)
If a procured item is a mixture of metal and non-metal, it shall be regard as “Others”iv) Information to be provided in analysis data
The following information must be provided in analysis data.
a. Analysis sample description (name of the target, part number, etc.)b. Pre-conditioning method (must be indicated of complete dissolution)c. Analysis method (name of the analysis method or the official method)d. The name of institution, the name of the person who performed the analysis, and thename of the person responsible for the analysis (stamps or signatures).
e. Analysis results: In the case of “not detectable (N.D.),” indicate the lower limit ofquantification.
f. Analysis flow chartv) Halogen
In some cases, we request analysis data of halogen (Cl, Br) for submission.

6*4 Ingredient sheet
We recommend ingredient information to be submitted by the following industrial
standard formats/tools;
123Tool name
Description
chemSHERPA Developed under the supervision of Ministry of Economy, Tradeand Industry of Japan. “Data entry support tool for articles” isdesigned for handling information on chemical substances
contained in articles, in the forms of composition information andcompliance assessment information.
Tool (Japanese, English, Chinese versions available) can beobtained from the following URL;
https://chemsherpa.net/english*5
IMDS
Developed under German Association of the Automotive Industry.
This is a system that reports chemical substances in products on
the Web. Non-disclosed substances can be used up to 10% perhomogeneous material.
http://www.mdsystem.com/SDS (MSDS) Procured items that are subject to SDS, submission is required.

Other formats/tools including your own format are acceptable.
1Tool name
JAPIA
Standard Material Datasheet*6

2CAMDS*5

Description
Excel-base format to create IMDS-like datasheet
developed by Japan Automotive Manufacturers
Association and Japan Auto Parts Industries
Association.
https://www.japia.or.jp/work/kankyou/japiasheet/
Chinese version of IMDS. Automotive makers
base in China are obliged to enter data when they
apply for vehicle certification.
Use Chinese or English to entry.
http://www.camds.org.cn/#/?activeIndex=3*5 To submit data through IMDS/CAMDS, please contact our purchasing officer
for corporate ID.
*6 To operate JAPIA Standard Datasheet, you will be required to input password.
Please contact our purchasing officer for the password.

(4) Indication of “non-containment of banned chemical substances” on invoices
To ensure that banned substances are not contained in procured items, please indicate in thedocument (invoice, test data report, etc.) provided to our company at the time of delivery thefollowing statement or a statement to the same effect: “The product delivered to yourcompany does not contain banned substances specified by your company.”7

4. Request for participating in environment protection activities
Our company has been participating global environment protection activities, and encourage oursuppliers to participate in such activities like mentioned below.
We appreciate for your understanding and cooperation for returning a survey that will beconducting.
- Construct and maintain Environmental Management System- Energy saving activities- Efficient use of resources (including plastics, 3R activities), and Reduction of the waste- Simplification of packaging material, and Re-use promotion- Reduction of Green House Gas, and promote of renewable energy.
- Participation to the Biodiversity protection activities- Responding to the Climate change- Water-saving promotion- Idling stop

5. CHEMI-CON Green Supplier Approval System
Our company initiated the CHEMI-CON Green Supplier Approval System on April 1, 2007, andconfirms the system for control of chemical substances contained in products operated by eachour supplier or outsourced process.
We conduct audit for its system. We appreciate for your understanding to cooperate of supplieraudit on site or self-evaluate.

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6. Applicable CHEMI-CON Group Company (plants / affiliates list)
Affiliates in Japan

Overseas Affiliates

Nippon Chemi-Con Corp.
Takahagi Plant
Nippon Chemi-Con Corp.
Niigata Plant
CHEMI–CON EAST JAPAN CORP.
Miyagi Plant
CHEMI–CON EAST JAPAN CORP.
Iwate Plant
CHEMI–CON EAST JAPAN CORP.
Fukushima Plant
CHEMI-CON EAST JAPAN
MATERIALS CORP.
Kitakata Plant
CHEMI-CON EAST JAPAN
MATERIALS CORP.
Iwate Waga Plant
CHEMI-CON DEVICE CORP.
Nagai Plant
CHEMI-CON DEVICE CORP.
Yonezawa Plant
CHEMI-CON DEVICE CORP.
Nagaoka Plant.

Chemi-Con (Wuxi) Co., Ltd.
Dong Guang KDK Aluminum Foil
Manufacture Ltd.
Taiwan Chemi-Con Corp.
Chemi-Con (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.
P.T. Indonesia Chemi-Con

United Chemi-Con, Inc.

Chemi-Con Materials Corp.

97. Revision history
No.
Modification
1 First edition released
2 (1) General contents, expressions, andterms were reviewed.
(2) The standards for control of chemical
substances contained in products werereviewed.
Deletion of controlled chemicalsubstances, agricultural chemicals,insecticides, etc.
Addition of newly regulated substancessuch as PFOS
(3) Consolidation of Annex C (issued onDecember 1, 2008)
3 (1) Full renewal.
(2) Separate Chemical Substance List frommain body of the Standards.
3.1 (1) SDS requirement added(2) List of Controlled Chemical Substances
Amended clerical errors
Added list of applicable laws
Added revision history
4.0 (1) Eliminate JAMP AIS sheet, MSDS
(2) “Nippon Chemi-Con Group List ofControlled Chemical Substances” wereamended.
Threshold limit of DEHP, DBP, BBP
and DIBP in Banned Chemical
Substance were amended.
Added PFOA, TECP, TCPP andTDCPP
toBanned
ChemicalSubstances.
(3) In concern of (2), “Certificate of
Non-containment of Banned Chemical
Substances
inProducts”
wereamended.
5.0 (1) Update of “6. Nippon Chemi-Con plants/ affiliates list”(2) Added TSCA PBT5 substances toBanned Chemical Substances.

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Date
July 1, 2005
October 1, 2009

Revision No.
05A
09A

April 1, 201818A

September 28, 2018

18B

July 1, 201919A

June 4, 2021

21A

No.
5.1

Modification(1) Added Dechlorane Plus (DP) tothe Banned substances.
(2) Added PFHxS, its salts andPFHxS-related to the Bannedsubstances.
(3) Added Di-n-hexyl phthalate (DnHP) tothe Reportable Substances.
(4) Added Decabromodiphenylethane(DBDPE) to the Reportable Substances.
5.1a Update company logo.
5.1b Update Affiliates and organization division
5.1c Update Annex 7 (Banned substances:Class I specified chemical substances ofChemical Substances Control Law ofJapan), CHEMI-CON Group List ofControlled Chemical Substances

11DateAug. 23, 2021Revision No.
21B

April 1, 2023
January 25, 2024
June 27, 2024

23A
24A
24B