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Fuji Xerox Begins Supplying RoHS
Directive-Compliant Products Starting With
Digital Multifunction Devices For The Global Market
April 4, 2005
| April 4, 2005-Tokyo: Upon successfully
establishing a production system that complies with the RoHS
Directive of the European Union, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. has
started supplying to the global market digital multifunction
devices that are produced at Fuji Xerox of Shanghai Limited
in compliance with the RoHS Directive*.
Fuji Xerox's digital multifunction devices/printers and other
products will now be produced in compliance with the RoHS
Directive. |
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The RoHS Directive: Restriction of the use
of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic
equipment as proclaimed by the European Parliament and the
Council. |
| The directive bans the use of six substances-lead,
mercury, hexavalent chrome, cadmium, PBB and PBDE-from July
2006. Companies that violate the directive could be ordered
to suspend shipments of the products concerned. |
| Fuji Xerox revised its previous "Green
Procurement Guidelines" as the "Green Procurement
Standards" in December 2002 to comply with the RoHS Directive
and set up a "Hazardous Substances Reduction Team"
(led by the head of Manufacturing) in February 2003. The company
has since taken measures to seek out and eliminate hazardous
substances in parts and components in cooperation with suppliers
as explained below. Accordingly, with the successful establishment
of the system that complies with the RoHS Directive, the Hazardous
Substances Reduction Team has been dissolved and the objective
will now be pursued within the framework of the ordinary product
development program. |
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Establishment of a system under which Fuji
Xerox surveys the supplier and creates a database that contains
data on hazardous substances in parts and on a program to
remove those substances, enabling those in charge of design
to make the necessary verification via the intranet. |
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Reduction of the number of suppliers to 200
firms for the dual purpose of streamlining procurement and
promoting compliance with the RoHS Directive. |
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Collaboration with suppliers to resolve technical
issues (how to produce lead-free products): |
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Fuji Xerox has undertaken measures to resolve
the so-called "whisker trouble," an electric circuit
problem caused by the whisker-shaped crystallization of tin
that arises from the elimination of the use of lead in joints
on super thin 0.5mm pitch of circuit lines in electric devices
i.e. FFC(Flexible-Flat-Cable) and connector . For this initiative,
Fuji Xerox set up a special taskforce with suppliers and the
company disclosed its technical information, spent 1,000 hours
testing 1,000 pins of terminal that contacts between FFC and
Connector devices, examined and established steps to improve
the situation, and developed a method of analysis and assessment. |
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Establishment of infrastructure: |
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For its sustained compliance with the directive
in future product development, Fuji Xerox established a system
of monitoring suppliers, including the training of monitors,
compilation of verification lists, compilation of programs
for improvement, assessment of the results of verification
and establishment of a recognition committee. |
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Acquisition of certificates on non-inclusion
of specified hazardous substances from suppliers and establishment
of an X-ray fluorescence inspection system at each production
site. (Scheduled to be completed at all facilities within
April.) |
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