Dec 2009

REACH - What is in your products

Do you have customers located in the European Union (EU)? Does your customer or customer’s customer sell products to organizations in the EU? If either of these answers is yes, then the products that are being produced by photochemical machining processes within the manufacturing supply chain could be subject to the EU Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals regulation, otherwise known as REACH. REACH is an EU regulation that deines the safety criteria for controlling chemicals (i.e., substances and preparations) and products (i.e., articles) through the entire supply chain from raw materials, to users, to the inal industrial or consumer product. The REACH regulation bans substances, sets the criteria for certain uses of substances, and requires communication on the safe use of substances and articles.