Innovative Product&Application Toolbox for Chlorinated Solvents Users now available

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

The European Chlorinated Solvent Association (ECSA) has released an online toolbox freely accessible via the ECSA website to provide users of chlorinated solvents with information about the safe & sustainable use of these products.

The toolbox is built up as a self-explaining guide based on a simple decision tree of product applications to lead the user readily to the proper information on safe use, environmental protection as well as legislative requirements.

The applications are colour-coded in order to highlight ECSA use recommendations:

Green application: uses are REACH assessed and/or permitted and recommended under certain conditions as described.

Red application: uses are not REACH assessed and/or prohibited.

The recommendations take into account REACH (1907/2006/EC on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) as well as other European legislation or voluntary industry commitments. The content of the Toolbox is based on the REACH Chemical Safety Assessment (CSA) of the substances.

The Toolbox also includes recommendations based on experience of ECSA members that go beyond the given legal framework of the CSA under REACH.

See the ECSA's Product&Application Toolbox page

Further information:
ECSA - European Chlorinated Solvent Association, Dr. Wolfgang Marquardt
Tel: +32 2 676 72 28, E-mail: ECSA@cefic.be , Website : www.eurochlor.org/ecsa

Footnote to Editors:
About ECSA (European Chlorinated Solvent Association):

ECSA represents the interests of the producers of chlorinated solvents in the EU that are organized under Euro Chlor. Euro Chlor is the Brussels based business association representing chlor-alkali producers in the EU and EFTA regions, employing 39,000 people at nearly 70 manufacturing sites.

Almost 2,000,000 jobs in Europe are related to chlorine and its co-product caustic soda. These two key chemical building blocks underpin 55% of the European chemical industry turnover.

More than 90% of the European drinking water is made safe with chlorine and about 85 % of all medicines are synthesized using chlorine chemistry. Euro Chlor is an affiliate of Cefic - the European Chemical Industry Council.