Product compliance

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.

Danfoss product compliance policy

Danfoss ensures product compliance through monitoring, data collection, and communication

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.

Information to Customers

Life Cycle Assessment
Compliance with Regulations

Information to Suppliers

Life Cycle Assessments

At Danfoss, we have long applied a life cycle approach in the development of our products and processes.

In our efforts to communicate transparently and better understand the environmental impacts of our products over their life cycle stages, we strive to continuously improve the availability and quality of data related to our products with regard to their full material disclosures (FMDs).

With access to FMD data, we are able to conduct product life cycle assessments (LCA) and produce environmental product declarations (EPD), thereby providing substantiated documentation to our customers in support of their sustainability agenda.

Life cycle assessments (LCAs) provide a systematic evaluation of the environmental impact of a product across its entire life cycle — from raw material extraction and production to use and end-of-life. By integrating LCAs into our product development process, we identify the most significant improvement areas and support our step-change initiatives on circularity and decarbonization.

Read more about our environmental product declarations.

Compliance with product regulations

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 is chemical management and substances of concern. While Danfoss is not a manufacturer of chemicals, and we do not manufacture articles with the 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.

We work closely with our suppliers to map PFAS across our product portfolio, enabling transparent information for customers and supporting the identification of safer alternatives through joint efforts. We are continuously mapping PFAS to better track substances of concern in our products, and with improved transparency and data quality, we are increasingly well-positioned to address specific substances and report them to authorities and customers. As part of our ongoing commitment to responsible chemical management, we continuously address the use of potentially harmful substances and take steps to phase in safer, more sustainable options across our products and processes.

The Danfoss Negative List

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.

Print version (PDF)
Search tool (Excel)
Substance Declaration Form (Excel)
If you have any substances to declare, please fill in above Substance Declaration Form and send it to negativelist@danfoss.com.

All suppliers, with regular deliveries to Danfoss, must subscribe to the list.
Our requirements to suppliers are described in the Danfoss Supplier Quality Manual.

Subscribe to the Danfoss Negative List

Material Data Reporting Requirements & Training

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.

Download Material Compliance Data Reporting Requirements

CDX

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.

CDX official website Video Tutorials & CDX User Manual available on CDX Login Web Danfoss Guide - CDX

IMDS

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.