Green Procurement

Suppliers of components and materials to the HORIBA Group. We ask you to join our green procurement effort of production material.

Green procurement activities are carried out by aggregated power of the HORIBA Group. On this page, the following manuals and the tools are information about the green procurement activities which the HORIBA group performs.

The HORIBA Group Green Procurement Policy was revised to Version 3 on November 2004.

Points of Version 3 revision

1. Handling of Green Procurement of Product Facilities has been added.
2. Definition about inclusion, intentional addition and so on has been defined.
3. Prohibited substance list has been based on “List-A of JGPSSI.”
4. Maximum Tolerance of restricted substance including RoHS directive target substance, exclusive use, and so on has been defined.
5. Inclusion unit of Prohibited Substance (Definition of Homogeneous Material) has been defined.(Temporary application only)
6. Investigation target substance on Green Procurement survey has been revised to that it is based on List-A and List B of JGPSSI.

In our Green Procurement, we hope our suppliers to perform the following basic actions in delivery of parts, materials, and facilities:

1. Improving the environmental performance of suppliers
2. Disclosing the names and amounts of chemicals contained in the delivered goods
3. Avoiding the use of the substances under the self-imposed control by HORIBA Group
4. Preliminary application of change which have influence on quality and environment matters.

Our Green Procurement Policy describes detailed requirements related to these actions.

Click the following links to download the Survey Tool made by JGPSSI, its documentations, and Chemical Substance Management Table. They will help to check the environmental burden of the substances contained in goods (parts or materials),
Notes: "JGPSSI : Japan Green Procurement Survey Standardization Initiative"

* Not all Surveyed Chemicals are preset in this Survey Tool. Use Chemical Substance Management Table to check.

Green Procurement Survey Tools

Application

Application based on a Green procurement policy should use the following files, downloading them. For the "Change application/Survey sheet" (previously "Application Form of changing process of Parts and materials"), please contact International Procurement Team, Purchasing Department, HORIBA, Ltd.

Q&A and Various Data

Contact Us

Inquiry Here about Green procurement is received by e-mail.
greenprocurement@jp.horiba.com