Support for Establishing EMS at Suppliers  (Ricoh
Group/Global)
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Partnerships with suppliers are important
in providing customers with products with less environmental impact.
The Ricoh Group has supported the establishment of EMS at suppliers,
aimed at our preference for the use of parts with less environmental
impact, manufactured at plants with less environmental impact. The
group's major suppliers all over the world had put EMS into full operation
by May 2003.
Completely Eliminating Use of Chemical Substances through
Partnerships (Ricoh
Group/Global)
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The Ricoh Group has been promoting activities
to completely eliminate the use of four prohibited substance groups
in partnership with suppliers since fiscal 2002. The Group has jointly
developed alternatives that do not contain lead, hexavalent chromium,
polyvinyl chloride, or cadmium, while sharing information on chemical
substances contained in parts with suppliers through databases. It
has also requested the presentation of a certification of non-use
of prohibited substances, and supported the establishment of a system
to avoid mixing prohibited substances into parts and materials or
other manufacturing processes at suppliers. The Ricoh Group is introducing
the know-how it has built up in Japan into production
bases in China, as well as other base worldwide, aiming at complete
elimination of the use of these substances by the end of fiscal 2004.
Thus we are aiming to establish a global production system ahead of
the EU's RoHS.
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