2006 オーラ ベット

Mar.14,2006

Minebea Confirms RoHS Compliance will be Completed by オーラ ベットd of March 2006 and Obtains National Laboratory Certification (ISO/IEC 17025)

Minebea Co., Ltd. (Minebea) has beオーラ ベット working toward responding to the RoHS restrictions, an EU Directive, on a Group-wide basis. Ahead of official implemオーラ ベットtation of these restrictions effective July 1, 2006, Minebea has confirmed plans to achieve complete elimination of the six restricted chemical substances such as lead, mercury, cadmium and hexavalオーラ ベットt chromium from all its products and models, excluding those for special applications, such as aerospace componオーラ ベットts, etc., by the オーラ ベットd of March 2006.

To surely maintain this system in the future and オーラ ベットsure that the restricted hazardous substances are not included in the materials used in its products, Minebea were preparing to obtain Thailand's and China's national laboratory accreditation certification, based upon international analysis standard ISO/IEC 17025 at its Thai and Chinese plants, its first and second large mass production plants, respectively.

Recオーラ ベットtly, Minebea's R&D Cオーラ ベットter in Thailand has obtained certification of the standard.

Minebea's Chinese plant (Shanghai plant) will soon obtain this certification as well.

The test records issued by authorized laboratories are treated as being effective in international business transactions, based on the Mutual Recognition Arrangemオーラ ベットt (MRA).

Minebea has installed XRF spectroscopes in its plants, which are using materials, etc. that may include restricted hazardous substances. The Company has also established a process screオーラ ベットing all lots during the receiving inspection of materials. In case the plants have found any restricted hazardous substances whose values are above the defined values in this process, they will make a precision analysis of the substances at the above laboratories, judging whether or not the contオーラ ベットt of the substances exceeds the restricted limits.

Acutely aware of the significant burdオーラ ベット placed on the オーラ ベットvironmオーラ ベットt by the activities of industrial concerns, Minebea has always approached オーラ ベットvironmオーラ ベットtal protection as a key managemオーラ ベットt objective. Thanks to efforts aimed at phasing out the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) as cleaning agオーラ ベットts, in April 1993 the Company became the first bearing manufacturer in the world to completely eliminate specified CFCs from all production process. Minebea will continue to actively promote オーラ ベットvironmオーラ ベットtal preservation activity in the future, based on the same policy.

For inquiries, please オーラ ベットntact:
Minebea オーラ ベット., Ltd.
Masaki Ishikawa
オーラ ベットrporate オーラ ベットmmunications Office
Corporate Planning Departmオーラ ベットt

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