HP Helps World’s Leading Car Manufacturers Reduce Waste

Hewlett-Packard announced it will help 34 of the world’s leading car manufacturers eliminate harmful substances from the automotive supply chain by hosting the International Material Data System (IMDS) for the next five years.
The IMDS is a shared service that enables the world’s leading automotive manufacturers and more than 100,000 companies in the vehicle supply chain to meet regulations on hazardous substances. By supplying more than 40 million data sheets that list the details of every substance involved in the manufacture of all components, the IMDS helps prevent the use of heavy metals such as cadmium, lead, mercury and hexavalent chromium, and ensures that reportable substances are declared for recycling.
HP Enterprise Services will continue to develop, maintain and host the IMDS global data repository, originally developed in response to the European Union’s End-Of-Life Vehicles (ELV) Directive, which aims at waste reduction, the IMDS has been adopted as the global standard for reporting material content across the automotive industry.