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Companies REACh

KFT Chemieservice GmbH, Germany

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UMCO GmbH, Germany

The UMCO Umwelt Consult GmbH is conceived as a service provider dealing with questions of environment, health and safety in businesses of "value-added activities in the chemical industry" since 1982. With group headquarters located in Hamburg, UMCO operates nationwide in the Federal Republic of Germ more

Haus der Technik e.V., Germany

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Software REACh

The Software Calculates and Creates REACH Conform Safety Data Sheets for Mixtures in Many Languages

Wizards make it easy to access legally compliant GHS classifications and REACH conform multilingual safety data sheets more

News REACh

• Inspectors find phthalates in toys and asbestos in second-hand products

  The project report shows a relatively high number of products on the European market containing chemicals that are restricted under REACH. Inspectors in 27 European countries checked 1 009 mixtures, 4 599 articles and 17 substances. Overall, out of 5 625 targeted product checks, 18 % did not comply more

• REACH inspectors find that not all companies are complying with authorisation requirements

  Inspectors in 17 European countries have checked compliance with the authorisation obligations under REACH for the use and placing on the market of 13 substances of very high concern with sunset dates in 2015. Inspections in companies that used or placed the substances on the market showed a rate of more

• REACH is the dominant driver for substitution - more action is needed

  The REACH Regulation and other EU policies coupled with market forces have created strong drivers to avoid the use of very hazardous substances in the EU. To accelerate identifying very hazardous substances and substituting them with safer alternatives, the report recommends improving the analysis o more

White papers REACh

• You’re using surfactants like Triton X-100? The REACH clock is ticking …
  

  It’s time to act if you are using alkylphenol ethoxylate (APE) surfactants such as nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs) and octylphenol ethoxylates (OPEs) more

• Designing Sustainable Products
  

  All of the benefits of Product Lifecycle Management can be erased by significant non-compliance events that impact a company through fines, penalties, negative publicity, or prohibition to sell a new product in key markets. Without a sustainability s more

Infographics REACh

Natural vs. Man-Made Chemicals

The term ‘chemophobia’ has been used on social media amongst chemists with increasing regularity over the past year. Defined as ‘a fear of chemicals’, more specifically it refers to the growing tendency for the public to be suspicious and critical of the presence of any man-made (synthetic) chemical more

Publications REACh

• Enabling multi-electron reaction of ε-VOPO4 to reach theoretical capacity for lithium-ion batteries

  By controlling the morphology and particle size of the epsilon polymorph of vanadyl phosphate, ε-VOPO4, it can fully reversibly intercalate two Li-ions and reach the theoretical capacity of 305 mA h g−1 over two voltage plateaus at about 4.0 and 2.5 V. more

• Sensors, Vol. 18, Pages 2111: Experiments on MEMS Integration in 0.25 μm CMOS Process

  Sensors, Vol. 18, Pages 2111: Experiments on MEMS Integration in 0.25 μm CMOS Process Sensors doi: 10.3390/s18072111 Authors: Piotr Michalik Daniel Fernández Matthias Wietstruck Mehmet Kaynak Jordi Madrenas In this paper, we share our practical experience gained during the dev more

• Ancient steppes for human equestrians

  Paleogenomics The Eurasian steppes reach from the Ukraine in Europe to Mongolia and China. Over the past 5000 years, these flat grasslands were thought to be the route for the ebb and flow of migrant humans, their horses, and their languages. de Barros Damgaard et al. probed whole-genome sequences more