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plier and OEM has to register their
company in order to report their
IMDS sheets. Once registered, sup-
pliers will be able to submit the
IMDS data sheet to their customers
with the complete part, material, ba-
sic substance details and recyclate
information.
Close to 90,000 suppliers are now
registered in IMDS, with 170,000+
active users. Started with 7 OEM
participation in IMDS in 2000, cur-
rently 55+ auto companies partici-
pate as OEMs in IMDS. Almost 99
per cent of OEMs and auto supply
chain use the IMDS database as a
tool to the meet ELV requirements.
It requires all the materials used in
the vehicle to categorize into seven
material families as per ISO 22628
– metals, polymers, excluding elas-
tomers, elastomers, glass, fluids,
modified organic natural materials
(MONM), and others (components,
materials where a detailed break-
down cannot be established).
2015 type approval target – recy-
clability >85 per cent and recover-
ability >95 per cent.
APA Engineering, a Chennai-
based engineering and sourcing
company, has a very strong team to
support the automotive OEMs and
supply chain to meet the ELV direc-
tive requirements for the automo-
tive industry, especially by giving
end-to-end IMDS compliance sup-
port. Recently APA won two ma-
jor orders from leading global auto
MNCs.
The recent happenings in India
towards ELV directive for vehicles
are NATRiP establishing the Re-
cycle Demo Center in Chennai and
a few automotive industry bodies
working towards framing the ELV
directive. The purpose of the Demo
Center is research in ELV recycle in
India. Indian OEMs have provided
old vehicles for the center.
Maruti has already taken an ini-
tiative to make its vehicles ELV-
compliant and launched a few ELV-
compliant cars already in the market.
There is every likelihood of a sim-
ilar ELV being introduced in India
soon.
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ELV global scenario
The ELV directive has two major re-
quirements – improving the recy-
clability of the vehicle parts and
minimizing the use of hazardous sub-
stances such as Pb, Cd, Hg and Cr6+.
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