DHI helps companies to match the EU legal standards regarding chemicals by taking care of all technical and administrative services. To date, DHI has successfully submitted more than 50 REACH registration dossiers.
REACH - the EU Regulation for the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals - was established within the EU to improve the protection of human health and the environment, while at the same time enhancing innovation and competitiveness of the EU chemicals industry.
The regulation surely gave some companies the worry lines, as it requires them to undertake a detailed registration in order to identify and manage the environmental and health risks linked to the chemical substances they manufacture and/or import and market in certain quantities. Each industry needs to demonstrate that it has appropriately done so by means of a registration dossier, which shall be submitted to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).
Conveniently, DHI has the capacity to instantly smooth the industry's worry lines. DHI takes care of all stages of the registration from the beginning of the process to the final submission of the dossiers (one-stop-shopping solution).
One example for a substance covered by REACH is mineral wool. Man-made vitreous fibres (MMVF), the technical term for mineral wool, are made from natural or synthetic materials or metal oxides. They are widely used in everyday life of millions of people, e.g. for thermal insulation, filtration and soundproofing. MMVF are among the thousands of substances falling within the scope of REACH. DHI has prepared one of the most comprehensive registration dossiers for this substance.
At the end of the registration process, DHI delivered successful REACH registrations to its customers. Fulfillment of the REACH registration was the added value. DHI's customers expressed their full satisfaction with the one-stop-shopping solution. "The value for us was that DHI helped us to have one dossier which covers all companies producing mineral wool in Europe, including the import of this substance", says Ole Kamstrup, Vice President of Rockwool International, one of the world's largest mineral wool manufacturers. "The process was quite complicated because it involved so many companies, but DHI managed to deal with these problems and gained everybody's trust, so the exchange of information went very well", he adds.
Meeting the last deadline in December 2010, DHI has successfully submitted more than 50 REACH registration dossiers including both the lead registrants dossiers and member dossiers on behalf of several customers. The next deadline for the submission of REACH dossiers is coming up in 2013 – and DHI is already working on more registration dossiers, applying its one-stop-shopping solution.
DHI carries out the following services as its one-stop-solution to REACH Registration:
- Technical support covering all aspects in the preparation of registration dossiers
- Chemical Safety Assessment (CSA) and Chemical Safety Report (CSR)
- Data-gap analysis
- Assessment of relevance, quality and costs of available studies and testing proposals
- Robust study summaries (RSS)
- Dossier preparation using the IUCLID software
- Exposure scenarios
- Follow up after the registration including the dossier updates
- CLP notification
- Safety Data Sheet (SDS) preparation in several languages
- Laboratory testing (either in our own laboratories or through reliable subcontractors)
- Secretariat function including the setting and facilitation of physical and virtual meetings
- Accounting according to agreed budgets
- Acting as a trustee
- Facilitation and formation of substance exchange information forum (SIEF).
- Setting up REACH consortia by main manufacturers and importers on the market and preparing the agreements.
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