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Facilitation of Information Transfer on Chemicals in Products The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has developed ‘chemSHERPA’ as a new information transfer scheme for chemicals in products throughout their supply chains.
Facilitation of Information Transfer on Chemicals in Products The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in Japan has developed ‘chemSHERPA’ as a new information transfer scheme for chemicals in products throughout their supply chains.
METI hopes that the dissemination of chemSHERPA may contribute to reduce the workload of both providers and recipients of the information. From the beginning of the development of chemSHERPA, METI has been in communication with international bodies such as the IEC and the IPC, etc., with the aim of developing chemSHERPA into not only a Japanese standard but also an International standard. To make it a de-facto standard, METI has introduced this scheme to international organizations and governments of other countries for their active use.
The Joint Article Management Promotion Consortium (JAMP) will be a governing body for chemSHERPA from April 2016 and METI expects to see an orderly, step-by-step shift to chemSHERPA over the two years transition period. Accordingly JAMP has a plan to finish renewing the substances list in the existing JAMP scheme by the end of March of 2018.
METI believe many companies will begin advance preparations towards implementing chemSHERPA. Based on the efforts mentioned above, the following companies and company groups have agreed with the dissemination of chemSHERPA, and METI will continue to work with companies to spread the use of chemSHERPA to internal as well as external supply chains.
[Supporting Companies: 99 companies, etc. No particular order. As of April 27th 2016]
IRIS OHYAMA, INC.
USHIO INC.
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
Asahi Kasei Corporation
Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation
Asahi Kasei Advance Corporation
Ikegami Tsushinki Co., Ltd.
EIZO Corporation
SGS-CSTC Standards Technical Services Co., Ltd.
IBIDEN CO., LTD.
Aiphone Co., Ltd.
ORGAN NEEDLE CO., LTD.
OUCHI SHINKO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
Otsuka Chemical Co., Ltd.
ARGO GRAPHICS INC.
Canon Inc.
Kao Corporation
KUREHA CORPORATION
Koga Polymer Co., Ltd.
Kitamura Chemicals Co., Ltd.
Kubota Co., Ltd.
Kyokuto Electric Co., Ltd.
GOO Chemical Co., Ltd.
Global Micronics Corporation
Japan Chemical Innovation and Inspection Institute
COSEL Co., Ltd.
KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
Career Partners Inc.
Kyoto Technical Regulations Service LLC
GLORY LTD.
Keihinkomakukogyo Co,Ltd
KATATA ELECTRIC CO.,LTD.
Kaneka Corporation
SONY group companies
Shimadzu Corporation
Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
San-S Systems Corporation
JUKI Corporation
Shin-Nakamura Chemical Co., Ltd.
Schneider Electric Japan Holdings Ltd.
JNC group companies
SHOWA KOSAN CO., LTD. Showa Yuki Co., Ltd.
Sansha Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.
National Federation of Small Business Associations
SEKONIC CORPORATION Celestica Japan K.K.
SEIKO PMC CORPORATION
SWCC SHOWA HOLDINGS CO., LTD. SunAllomer Ltd.
SIGMA CORPORATION
SENJU METAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD. Sharp Corporation
DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD
Tokyo Electron Limited TDK Corporation
DIC Corporation Daicel Corporation Tamron Co., Ltd. Tomita Electric Co., Ltd.
Tachii Electric Wire Co., Ltd.
TAKAMATSU OIL & FAT CO.,LTD.
TOKYO ZAIRYO CO., LTD.
TODA KOGYO CORP.
Tigers Polymer Corporation Tosoh Corporation
NEC Corporation
Nippon Avionics group companies (Nippon Avionics Co., Ltd.) Nippon Chemi-Con Corporation
Nichiban Co., Ltd. Nihon Superior Co., Ltd. Zeon Corporation
NICHICON CORPORATION UEL Corporation
Nitto Denko Corporation FUJIFILM Corporation Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd.
HONDA ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
Panasonic Corporation
FUJITSU LIMITED
Du Pont-Mitsui Polychemicals Co., Ltd.
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Mizuho Information & Research Institute, Inc.
MITSUBISHI RAYON CO., LTD.
MegaChips Corporation
MEIKO FUTABA Co., Ltd
MITSUI FINE CHEMICALS,INC.
Musashinoseiki CO., LTD.
MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
UKC Holdings Corporation
Ricoh Co., Ltd.
ROHM Co., Ltd.
RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION
Ryoyo Electro Corporation
About chemSHERPA
A scheme that facilitates sharing information on chemical substances in products
Information handling between supply-chain partners is essential for appropriate management of chemical substances in products (CiP), in order to continuously respond to expanding regulations. The chemSHERPA can be used as a common scheme for information handling across a supply chain.
Designed for steady & efficient information handling
Applicable to various products and industries. Throughout a supply chain, from up- to down-stream, This scheme allows organizations to handle the CiP information under a shared policy.
Toward a better information handling and chemical management in a supply chain
The chemSHERPA ensures "responsible information handling” that transfers composition information based on a common substance list, as well as compliance assessment information for articles, striving for a better CiP management in the future.
Starts operation in October 2015
Based on the second phase verification results, the data entry support tool will be finalized and formally released in October 2015.