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General Norms A12 5200

GREEN MATERIALS – REGRIND MATERIALS

DEFINITION - CALCULATION
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This is a translation, the French original shall be used in all cases of litigation Date of translation: 08/06/2010

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FOREWORD
Within the framework of an overall step aiming at being the “leader of the ecological vehicle”, group PSA Peugeot
Citroën launched green a materials plan. The objective of this plan is to integrate on the perimeter of the organic
materials (plastic, amended foams and natural organic materials) 20% in green material mass in 2011, then 30% in
2015.

The operational deployment of green materials on the projects is based on the following shares:

• An objective in green material mass is solved by a contract with the Stake Commitment Project for each
project. This objective is declined on each subsystem.
• The tender documents impose an answer integral supplier of the green materials since April 2008.
• For each project, an indicator on the mass of green materials, is followed.

It is thus advisable to precisely define the criteria of eligibility under green material and the ways of calculating of
the green material mass.

Drafted by Checked by Approved by

Didier FROMONTEIL See list of participants Louis DAVID

DTI/DPMO/CIMB/IMPM/MPLC DTI/DITV/PMXP

Date Signature Date Signature Date Signature

03/07/2009 03/07/2009 03/07/2009

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RECORDS

Indice Date Nature des modifications

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PARTICIPANTS
Following people took part in the drafting and/or the checking of this norm :
DA/SIM/STAM/MKM Fabrice BOSSENNEC
DJRA/AFPE Mathilde LHEUREUX, Rozenn LE BORGNE
DP/DPMC/GED/EQU Estelle EVEN
DRIA/CSHE Christian PRION, Sandrine RAPHANAUD
DTI/DITV/PMXP Sophie RICHET, Frédéric RABAIN, Pierre TONNELIER, Sabrina BAHLOULI
DTI/DITV/RHN/NCF Jérôme VALLEE
DTI/DPMO/CIMB/IMPM Olivier DELCOURT, Laurent BECHU, François GERMAIN,

CONTENTS

1. OBJECT AND FIELD OF APPLICATION 3

2. DOCUMENTARY REFERENTIAL 3
2.1. NORMS 3
2.2. REGULATIONS 3
2.3. OTHER DOCUMENTS 3
2.4. EXPRESSION ON DOCUMENTS 4
3. TERMINOLOGY 4
3.1. DEFINITIONS 4
3.2. ACRONYMS 6
4. GENERALS PRESCRIPTIONS 6
4.1. SUPPLIER'S RESPONSABILITY 6
4.2. MARKING OF THE PARTS WITH CONTENTS RECYCLED 6
5. CALCUL PROCESSUS 7
5.1. CALCUL OF THE GREEN MATERIAL RATE 7
5.2. CALCUL OF THE REGRIND RATE 8

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1.OBJECT AND FIELD OF APPLICATION

The present standard has the aim of specifying the terms of “green materials” and “regrind materials”.
The purpose of this standard is also to quantify the mass of these various materials and to answer the questions
about the eligibility of contents to the matter name “recycled” according to ISO 14021.
This standard is implemented to any creation or amendment of part, first goes up, intended for vehicles
marketed on the market of the European Community.

2.DOCUMENTARY REFERENTIAL
2.1.NORMS

A10 2260 MARKING OF THE PRODUCTS OF DESIGN PRODUCED/PROCESS

B20 0110 SUPPLIES OF PRODUCTS GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

B20 0250 SUBSTANCES/MATERIALS REGLEMENTEES AND RESTRICTIONS OF USE IN

CLUSTER PSA PEUGEOT CITROËN

B20 1310 PLASTIC SUPPLIES OF PARTS GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

B20 1315 SUPPLIES OF PARTS IN PLASTIC MARKING OF IDENTIFICATION OF THE MATERIALS

FOR RETRAINING

ISO 1043-1 PLASTICS - SHORTENED SYMBOLS AND TERMS - PART 1: BASIC POLYMERS AND
THEIR SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS

NF EN ISO 14021 ENVIRONMENTAL MARKINGS AND DECLARATIONS - ENVIRONMENTAL

AUTODECLARATIONS (LABELLING OF THE TYPE II)

ASTM-D6866 TEST METHODS TO DETERMINE THE CONTENT OF BIOBASE OF THE SOLID, LIQUID,
AND GAS SAMPLES USING THE RADIOCARBON ANALYSIS

2.2.REGULATIONS
Not applicable

2.3.OTHER DOCUMENTS
Not applicable

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2.4.EXPRESSION ON DOCUMENTS
Simultaneously with the garnishment of information in implementation MACSI concerning green materials, the
implementation of the requirements of this standard requires to indicate on the plane supplier:
• the reference of this document,
• detailed bill of material containing following information at least:
• chemical nature of materials
• Commercial reference of materials for all the rubber and plastic parts.
• rate (mass TREB percentage) maximum and the origin of the regrind matter, if the part contains some
• rate (TMV mass percentage) of green materials and mass of the part, if the part contains some

3.TERMINOLOGY
A dictionary (glossary) of the principal terms and their definitions used in the activities of the Technical and
industrial Upstream is consultable in-house via the glossary Nectar (http://nectar.inetpsa.com). This glossary is
gradually enriched.

3.1.DEFINITIONS
One distinguishes in the definitions:

A/ Green materials, namely:

• Nonmetal recycled matters
• Renewable matters, namely:
• Natural fibers and Materials
• Biomaterials
B/ Regrind materials

For the requirements of this norm, the following terms are defined:

Recirculated Proportion in material mass recycled in a product.

contents (1)
Only the materials “pre consumption” and “post consumption” must be regarded as
recycled contents, in accordance with the definitions below of recycled pre-consumption
and recycled materials post consumption.

Recirculated Material diverted of the flow of waste during the production cycle.
material pre
consumption (= Examples:
post industrial) • Fall of packing and bottle manufacture (Stoppers, films…)
• Fall of production (textiles, flat products, fitteds carpet…)
• Incomplete parts, semi-finished products
• Parts nonin conformity
• Ranks matter out-specification (if they are recompoundés)
Are excluded the materials, such as those resulting from the adjustment, re-grinding or the
residues generated during a process and being able to be recovered in the same process
as that which generated them.

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Recirculated Material generated by the households or the commercial, industrial or institutional

material post installations in their role of end-user of the product, and which cannot be used any more for
consumption the use for which it was designed.
This understands the material returns of the chain of delivery.

Material generated by the parts at the end of the lifetime which cannot be used any more
for the use for which they were designed.

Examples:
• Waste of packing and bottle manufacture (stoppers, bottles, pots…)
• VHU (Parts at the end of the lifetime)

Natural contents Proportion out of earth of natural material in a product:

Fibers and materials
• Fibers of stiffener for plastics
The fibers are used in mixture with a polymer, they replace for glass fibers or talc and
generally reduce the density.
Examples: Fibers of hemp, flax, wood

• Textile fibers
Natural fibers of the textiles or fibrous materials
Examples: Fibers of cotton for sound-deadening material, coconut Fibers for head office,…

• Natural materials
Natural materials used after an operation of processing
Examples: Leather, Natural rubber, Wood,…

Contents Proportion of biomass in a product:

Biomaterials The biomaterials are polymers all or partially organic-sources; they come from resources
known as “renewable” and undergo a chemical operation of synthesis.

The final objective of a favorable environmental impact could be taken into account in the
selection of materials: Analyze of Life cycle, nature of the resources (the priority will be
given to the nonconcurrent resources of the food wire drawing die)

Examples:
• Polyamide 11 (castor oil)
• Biopolyols (vegetable oils: soya, castor bean, colza…)
• PLA: acid PolyLactique (corn starch)
Regrind contents Proportion out of earth of regrind material in a product.
Only the materials of the elements of the bunch of moulding outsides to the recess of the
part (earth clamp, canals feeder, parison) during the moulding are regarded as regrind
contents.
The die-castings off specifications during the phases of tuning and output must be
excluded from the range of re-grinding.

The regrind material is regarded neither as a recycled material, nor like a green
material.
(1) In accordance with the norm NF EN ISO 14021

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3.2.ACRONYMS
For the needs for this standard, the following symbols are defined:
RMA Assembly reference parts Approved Material
SPA Technical Produces Approved
STL Technical specification Laboratory
TD Heat-hardenable
TP Thermoplastic materials
TPE Thermoplastic elastomer
TMV Contents of green material expressed as a percentage
TREB Regrind contents expressed as a percentage
VHU Unusable vehicles

4.GENERALS PRESCRIPTIONS
These requirements are those of the standards B20 0110, B20 0250, B20 1310 and B20 1315 whose paragraph B
is supplemented as follows:

4.1.SUPPLIER'S RESPONSABILITY
The delivered parts containing of green materials and/or regrind materials owe as well as the parts made out of
virgin materials being free from apparent permanently eliminate a defects such as:
• Missing material, shrink hole
• Marbling, fuel line freeze, flash, burning, bubble…
The proceeded parameters and their controls must be integrated in the monitoring plan. These data remain
constantly accessible to PSA PEUGEOT CITROËN. Any engineering change of the proceeded parameters must
make to the object of a notification to the service materials and parts of process concerned as well as new
presentation of initial samples.

4.2.MARKING OF THE PARTS WITH CONTENTS RECYCLED

Except imposed particular requirements, marking must be carried out according to the requirements of the
standard A10 2260.

In the presence of contents out of recirculated material defined in the § 3.1, it is possible to make be reproduced on
the product the volumic percentage of recirculated material.
In accordance with standard NF IN ISO 14021, symbolization “material recirculated” is done using a loop pile of
Möbius and of a figure indicating the rate of recirculated contents defines by straight edges of calculation of the §
5.1

Example: Marking produced with material partially recirculated containing 65% of recirculated material

Buckle of Möbius and percentage

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5.CALCUL PROCESSUS
The tolerances on the values of earths that it is the total earth of the part or the earth of each material, are:

Mass m Tolerance in %
m ≥ 10 kg +/- 1%
1 kg ≤ m < 10 kg +/- 2 %
100 g ≤ m < 1 kg +/- 5 %
m < 100 g +/- 10 %

5.1.CALCUL OF THE GREEN MATERIAL RATE

For the green material contents, the computing process of the fraction concerned is defined as follows:
TMV (%) = 100 X (mv/mt)

TMV : expressed as a percentage green material contents

mv : mass green material (contained recirculated + contained natural + contained biomass)
mt : mass material

Examples :

• PA66–GF30 with partially recirculated bottom die

mt = 100 g (35 g of virgin PA66 + 35g of recycled PA66 + 30 g glass fibers nonrecirculated)
TMV (%) = 35/100 x 100 = 35 %

• P/E-MD20 with an entirely recirculated bottom die

mt = 100 g (80g of P/E recycled + 20 g of talc)
TMV (%) = 100/100 x 100 = 100 %

• PP-NF30 (reinforcer 30% of fibers of hemp)

mt = 100 g (70g of virgin PP + 30 g of fibers of hemp)
TMV (%) = 30/100 x 100 = 30 %

• Polyurethan containing a fraction of biosourcé polyol

mt = 100 g (50 g of isocyanate + 40g of polyols + 10g of biosourcés polyols)
TMV (%) = 10/100 x 100 = 10 % *

*: percentage of biomass determined according to ASTM-D6866

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5.2.CALCUL OF THE REGRIND RATE

For the regrind material contents, the computing process of the fraction concerned is defined as follows:
TREB (%) = mREB/mt X 100

TREB : regrind contents expressed as a percentage

mREB : regrind material mass
mt : total earth of material of the product

Example :

• Material with regrind plastic contents

Part of polyamide 66 100g beefed up by 30% glass fibers into which is introduced during the injection the regrind
contents of the earth clamp of injection

mREB = 15 g of PA66-GF30 regrind coming from the earth clamp of injection

mt = 100 g (mass die-casting resulting from the recess except earth clamp of injection)
TREB (%) = 15/100 x 100 = 15 % maxi

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