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| ■Purpose |
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Kitagawa Industries addresses product development and production activities that
satisfy customers based on the Environmental Policy and Quality Policy. As part of the
activities, this KGS Procurement Standard provides our standard in purchasing products,
parts, raw materials, and sub-materials from Suppliers while giving priority to those who
are actively working on environment conservation and quality assurance.
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| ■Scope of Application |
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This Standard applies to all products, parts, materials, and indirect materials we purchase.
It also applies to chemicals used in the manufacturing processes of the above items.
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| ■Application of the Standard |
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It goes without saying that this Standard has been established in compliance with laws.
Should a customer wish to apply its own standard, however, we may apply the customer
standard separately from usual cases for other customers. As for our suppliers, we
request them to ensure that the KGS standard is applied for the operations of their
consignee companies or those from which they purchase goods and materials for
manufacturing products which are delivered to our company.
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| ■Definition of Terms |
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| 1) | Supplier and Customer |
| “Supplier” refers to a company or a group from whom we purchase goods.
“Customer” refers to a company or a group to whom we sell goods. |
| 2) | Indirect material |
| It refers to packaging materials (carton, plastic bag, cushioning material, tape, label,
ink, adhesive, etc.) and chemicals (mold lubricant, solvent, cleaning agent, etc.).
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| 3) | Environmental hazardous substance |
| It refers to a substance contained in products and materials or used during
manufacture and with a significantly adverse impact (aspect) on human body and/or
global environment. In accordance with laws and regulations as well as customer
requests, we specify the substance to manage it by planning its elimination or
reduction.
We manage environmental hazardous substances by classifying them into the
following three categories.
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Banned
Substance |
Must not be contained in products, packaging
materials, etc.
Must not be used in manufacturing processes
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Restricted
Substance |
Containment in products and packaging materials
must be restricted.
Use in manufacturing processes must be restricted.
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Controlled
Substance |
The fact that the substance is contained in a product
is preferably understood.
The amount of use of the substance in a
manufacturing process is preferably understood.
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Refer to "KGS Procurement Standard Annex:Enviromental hazardous Substance
Management Standard"
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| 4) | Containment |
| It refers to a condition in which the substance is mixed in or added and attached to a
product, or fills the product regardless of whether it is intentional or not.
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| 5) | Impurity |
| It refers to a substance that is naturally and unintentionally contained in a material
and/or formed during production and cannot be removed completely by technical
means. For the substances that have Maximum Content Value (MCV) defined in the
Procurement Standard must not be contained more than the quantity of MCV even if
the substances are impurities.
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| 6) | Content rate |
| It refers to a value that the mass of the designated substance in one component (in
homogeneous material) divided by the mass of the component (the homogeneous
material).
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| 7) | Homogeneous material |
| A homogeneous material refers to a material that cannot be mechanically disjointed into
different materials. The term “mechanically disjointed” means that the materials can be,
in principle, separated by mechanical actions such as unscrewing, cutting, crushing,
grinding and abrasive processes.
(Example: plastics, ceramics, glass, metals, alloys, paper, board, resins, ink, coat, etc.)
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| 8) | Evidence |
| Evidence is the result of quantitative and qualitative analysis of a specified substance.
For the substances with the specific MCV, its evidence must be obtained by
quantitative analysis method with adequate accuracy. Refer to
"KGS Procurement Standard Annex:Enviromental hazardous Substance Management Standard" |
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