With
Our Business Partners

Contributions to the development of society and the maintenance and strengthening of cooperative relationships

JATCO strives to bring about mutual growth and “for the realization of a society where the environment and cars can coexist,” based on the relationships of trust that we share with our business partners. To that end, it is important to work together in accordance with standards that are fair, just, and transparent. We follow clearly established rules, as represented by our “Green Procurement Guidelines,” in selecting our business partners, and present awards to outstanding corporations.

Procurement in the global market

In light of the expansion of our production activities in Mexico, China, and Thailand, we are encouraging local production and the procurement of materials from highly competitive overseas sources in order to increase competitiveness while ensuring fairness in the global market and improving efficiency in the shipping of parts.

Promotion of the management of environmentally hazardous substances

In light of the expansion of the global market, JATCO promotes the management of environmentally hazardous substances in cooperation with our business partners with a focus on the following five items.

1. Global implementation of the JATCO Green Procurement Guidelines

Beginning with the head office in Japan, we manage environmentally hazardous substances on a global scale, including our overseas affiliates.

2. Application of our guidelines to new business partners

We promote the management of environmentally hazardous substances among new business partners by clearly indicating our requirement of submitting green procurement documents.

3. Responding to environmental regulations and customer requirements

We do not limit the scope of items targeted for management to the data on chemical substances contained in our products, but rather extend it to the data on chemical substances in our packaging materials and shipping parts during transportation, as well as in recent years, the supplies used during the production process (for example, stationery items such as marker pens). Going forward, we will continue to put effort into minimizing the use of environmentally hazardous substances.

4. Thorough management and reduction of environmentally hazardous substances

Environmentally hazardous substances used in our products are controlled using JES M9001^*1. JES M9001 limits the use of chemical substances based on GADSL^*2 (a list of controlled chemical substances for the automotive industries of Japan, Europe, and North America) and Japan’s Chemical Substance Control Law (CSCL)^*3, and also covers the use of chemical substances restricted under the laws and regulations of the countries in which JATCO engages in business and as well as those restricted by regulations specified by individual JATCO customers. JATCO reviews JES M9001 at least once a year and measures are put in place to manage and reduce environmentally hazardous substances in order to remain ahead of global environmental laws and regulations.

5. Promoting the management of environmentally hazardous substances through the utilization of IMDS^*4

Corresponding with this era of “No Data, No Market” (no sales without data), we are cooperating with business partners to jointly promote with the development division the management of highly detailed data using IMDS.

*1 Jatco Engineering Standard (JES): Internal technical standards on restrictions for the use of specified substances
*2 GADSL: Global Automotive Declarable Substance List
*3 Act on the Regulation of Manufacture and Evaluation of Chemical Substances *4 IMDS: International Material Data System

Promoting green procurement activities

JATCO’s green procurement activities tackle environmental conservation across all the products supplied by our business partners. The following are the three key points.

Verifying the intention to promote green procurement

Establishing an environmental management system

Reporting on the use of environmentally hazardous substances

JATCO makes it a precondition to purchase products from companies that are taking a proactive stance toward green procurement. We also request that our business partners encourage their suppliers to promote green procurement activities. JATCO awards business partners that have put particular effort into achieving JATCO’s vision “for the realization of a society where the environment and cars can coexist.”