A necessary and valuable step forward.

Vinyloop's commitment is to fulfill relevant REACH obligations applicable to its products and their applications through all activities of production, importation, marketing and use according to REACH timeline.

Vinyloop sees REACH as a strategic opportunity, that will have beneficial effects throughout the supply chain.  Indeed, the REACH objectives are in line with Vinyloop's sustainable development commitment, and aims to bring :

A higher level of protection of human health and the environment: by encouraging a better knowledge sharing regarding the chemical substances and their applications.

Proper functioning of the internal market: by contributing to the free circulation of chemicals.

Innovative and job-creation in the European chemical industry: by triggering the development of new substances that better protect health and the environment.

A good balance between health, safety and environment and competitiveness of the chemical industry :by involving in the registration process the various stakeholders concerned, such as Industry, public authority, users, consumers, NGOs, ...
How Vinyloop implements REACH?

Vinyloop is well aware of REACH Regulation 1907/2006 that entered into force on 1st June 2007.  Vinyloop is committed to meeting its legal obligations under REACH Regulation when it is concerned as a Manufacturer, an Importer or a Downstream User in accordance with the REACH Regulation timeline.

Polymers, among them PVC, are exempted from registration and evaluation. Vinyloop products are regenerated PVC (R-PVC) and hence have a specific status.

REACH considers recycled and regenerated polymers as substances. Recovered substances may contain impurities which may distinguish them from corresponding materials not deriving from recovery processes. This is in particular the case when recovered materials contain unintended constituents which have no function for the recycled material and the only reason for their presence in the recycled material is that they were part of the input waste for the recycling process. The content of such unintended constituents may vary significantly from batch to batch. Full knowledge of the exact composition in each such case may require substantial analytical efforts. While such constituents may have originally been intentionally added as substances to form a preparation, their presence in the recovered material is unintended and therefore, they can be considered as impurities, which do not require separate registration.

REACH states that constituents present in quantities above 20% in R-PVC, like plasticisers and calcium carbonate (chalk), should however, in general not be considered as impurities but as separate substances in a preparation. Vinyloop has taken action towards all relevant substances in the product range being appropriately pre-registered either by Vinyloop directly or further up in the supply chain. In particular Vinyloop has introduced the pre-registration file for all relevant substances for registration by 1st December 2010, as follow:

Plasticisers (more than 20 grades)
Calcium carbonate
Vinyl Chloride

How SolVin implements REACH?

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How Solvay implements REACH?

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Vinyloop Communication -  Q & A about REACH and Additives content.