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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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