In a world with increasing reporting requirements and a focus on responsibility and the environment, Danfoss focuses on product compliance to ensure growth, world-class product quality, and risk mitigation.
The Danfoss Product Compliance Program is integrated into our management systems, relying on regulatory foresight, robust data, and effective supply chain communication. This integration enables us to produce safe and sustainable products, and meeting compliance obligations to customers and regulators.
Danfoss complies with regulations and standards at national, regional, and global levels. We monitor and communicate new requirements to the organization in a systematic way, ensuring a strong focus and alignment of processes and tools across our organization.
To achieve compliance and build a strong sustainability foundation, Full Material Declarations (FMD) are required from suppliers for new and modified parts. The reporting of Material Data Sheets (MDS), which declare the material and substance content of a part, can be done through Danfoss designated tools for reporting.
For more information, please contact your local Danfoss sales and service office.
Integrating a life cycle approach into our product and process development has been a longstanding practice for us. Since 2021 Danfoss has increased its efforts to enhance capabilities in life cycle assessments (LCAs) as a key element of our sustainability strategy. LCAs provide a systematic assessment of the total environmental impacts of our products during its entire lifecycle – from extraction of raw materials, over production and use, and the product end-of-life. As an essential part of our product development process, LCAs support our step-change initiatives on circularity and decarbonization by identifying high-impact areas to enhance product environmental performance.
This effort has involved recruiting LCA specialists across all business segments, acquiring advanced LCA software, and establishing a unified approach within the Danfoss Group for conducting LCAs. The application of LCAs is integrated in the sustainability assessment, which is now mandatory in the development of new products in Danfoss.
The LCA results can be presented in comprehensive Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for our product range offering transparency into the environmental footprint of our products throughout their lifecycle.
Read more about Danfoss’ Environmental Product Declarations.
Danfoss is committed to improving the protection of human health and the environment through compliance with relevant product regulations and standards. We adhere to regulatory standards in product safety to ensure that our design, manufacturing, testing, and certification processes align with market requirements.
One of our key focus areas are chemical management and substances of concerns. While Danfoss is not a manufacturer of chemicals, and we do not manufacture articles with intended release of harmful substances, we acknowledge the need to work with our supply chain to identify where harmful substances may exist and how these potentially can be substituted. Throughout 2024, we have built on our collaboration with our suppliers to map PFAS across our product portfolio. This enables us to provide transparent information to our customers and identify safer alternatives through joint efforts. In 2025, we will continue to address the use of potentially harmful substances and take further actions to find safer alternatives.
This document describes our compliance with the European REACH regulation and similar regulations in our markets.
This document outlines our compliance with the UK REACH regulation.
This document outlines our compliance with regulations on the restriction of hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS) in the EU and China.
This document describes how we exercise due diligence regarding the origin of tin, tantalum, tungsten, or gold (3TG) in our supply chain. If you have any questions concerning conflict minerals, please contact us.
The Negative List is the cornerstone of our efforts to reduce the use of harmful substances in our production and products. It is applicable worldwide and can only be replaced by stricter local legislation.
The Negative List is based on current legislation, but for selected substances, Danfoss has adopted restrictions that go beyond current legislation.
Suppliers, tenants, and contractors working on Danfoss’ premises must comply with the negative list.
All suppliers, with regular deliveries to Danfoss, must subscribe to the list.Our requirements to suppliers are described in the Danfoss Supplier Quality Manual.
In order to effectively follow up on both legal and customer requirements regarding product environmental compliance, we are now expecting all relevant suppliers to join us in the reporting of Full Material Disclosure data declarations (FMD MDS). We have designated tools to assist us and our suppliers in the process of data reporting. To meet Danfoss´ reporting requirements, our suppliers are expected to submit data through CDX or IMDS online Portals. Registration and submission of data is free of charge.
CDX stands for Compliance Data Exchange system. It is a data exchange tool accessible as a portal, designed to satisfy the latest regulatory requirements for various industries.
Please see available online trainings and instructions below or request your Danfoss contact for more details / training options.
IMDS Stands for International Material Data System. It is the automobile industry's compliance data exchange tool. As many of Danfoss customers are automotive OEMs, we support reporting through this tool as well.