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Nilfisk-Advance – at a glance
5,200 employees worldwide
• Sales entities in 45 countries
• Dealers in more than 70 countries
• Production facilities in 8 countries
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Strategy on chemicals in products
Compliance
Prohibition
Knowledge
Alignment
Compliance
Alignment
Knowledge
Compliance: Nilfisk-Advance products comply with health & environmental product legislation globally
Alignment: Requirements are applicable for all Nilfisk-Advance products regardless of origin and sales destination
Prohibition: General ban of “hazardous”/restricted chemicals
Knowledge: Knowledge of upcoming restricted chemicals
Prohibition
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Communication upstream
NACS 2020
Nilfisk-Advance’s corporate standard on restricted and declarable substances
Contains legal requirements (REACH, RoHS, Canadian legislation etc.) as well as non-legal requirements to ensure buffer and to avoid “hazardous” chemicals.
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Compliance documentation
Signed NACS 2020
Supplier declaration
Test report
MSDS (few cases)
Identification of specific chemicals (e.g. plasticizers)
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Communication downstream
REACH information obligation (SVHC > 0.1%)
• Information on product datasheets• Some customers have requested this information in a specific way (e.g. complete a
specific document)
Customers requests
• Signing of their internal declarations on REACH etc.
• Surveys (each time candidate list is updated)
• Databases
Nilfisk-Advance offers general REACH, RoHS declarations.
Major/OEM customers
• Signing of customer norm – often includes non-legal requirements:
prohibition of SVHC compliance with GADSL
(automotive industry)• Procedures on how Nilfisk-Advance
manages restricted chemicals
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Challenges
• No common framework (EU, USA, Asia)• National requirements difficult to implement (e.g.
DK ban of 4 phthalates); difficult as a small player to put pressure on suppliers
• Complex products (150-1000 subcomponents)• Many suppliers & sales destinations• “Just” assembly manufacturer – tier 3/4/5 to raw
material supplier => long way to full disclosure, “chemical knowledge”, MSDS etc.
Products
Legislation
• No common list of requirements for “article” manufacturers (e.g. GADSL*)
• No common database or flow of information (e.g. IMDS**)
* GADSL = Global automotive declarable substance list; http://www.gadsl.org/** IMDS = International Material Data System; http://www.mdsystem.com/imdsnt/startpage/index.jsp
Information flow
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