All chemicals supplied by kolb are fully REACH  conform

1^st June 2008 until 31^st December 2011  was a pre-registration period for REACH ( Registration, evaluation and Authorization of chemicals) during which each supplier and importer of a chemical needed to register with the EU authority ECHA ( European Chemicals Agency) whether they planned to apply for a full registration. Without such a registration the principle < without data no market> applies, which treats al non-registered or not pre-registered chemicals/substances as “ new” with the result that a marketing will  only be possible after registration.

All substances offered by kolb in its cleaning products have been registered respectively pre-registered in accordance with the REACH regulation, so that the availability of kolb offers from a law point of view is guaranteed long term.

As kolb has been known  for more than 10 years as the pioneer in environmentally friendly cleaning in the electronics industry and as one of the first companies it has launched solvent-free waterbased chemicals  electronics industry- wide,  it is only logical that substances used by kolb can neither be found on the SVHC ( Substances of Very High Concern) list of ECHA nor on the SIN ( Substitute it now) list of CHEMSEC ( International Chemical Secretariat),  a far more rigid Swedish non-profit organization.

The most important tool for the communication and control that governmental requirements will remain the Material Safety Data Sheet. In the future additionally the registration number, possibly limitations of use, possibly details regarding the duty of admittance and the “ identified use”  will have to be mentioned. All requirements Kolb already adhered to.

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VOC( = volatile organic compound) =loss * VOC (content in product in %) / 100

When a user has > 1t / year VOC loss he is obliged to obey the council directive.

Alternatively he can take measures to reduce such losses < 1t /year with respective technologies as well as products.

e.g. replacement of IPA for cleaning against water-based cleaning chemistry.

Or reduction of VOC substances

As  in our MultiEX N7 mod 2 which is presently under long-term testing with a company of the Siemens group of companies in Germany.

Deviations may be applicable from country to country. Needs to be verified.

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Restriction of certain Hazardous Substances

It prohibits the use of substances as of July 2006

Cadmium (Cd), Quecksilber (Hg), sechswertiges Chrom (Cr (VI)), polybromierte Biphenyle (PBBs) ,polybromierte Diphenyläther (PBDEs) sowie Blei (Pb).

WEEE
Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Elektro- und Elektronik-Altgeräte).

Recycling, classification and handling

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This is the lowest temperature when a substance develops enough gases for an oxydation (flame).This flame however will stop right away even when the source of flame will not be removed. The gas volume emitting from the substance is not high enough to ensure a permanent flame.

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A few degrees above the flash point is the focal point from this temperature on a permanent flame is possible even when removing the source of flame, as the surface of the substance supply flammable gases in sufficient volume.

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The igniting point is the temperature, at which substances at hot products show self ignition. The igniting temperature is thus the lowest temperature at which flammable gases, fumes, dust or fine particles mixed with air start to burn.

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The WEEE- directive ( Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment) is the EU directive 2002/96  to reduce the  increasing amount of electronic waste out of non-used or non-usable electrical and electronic appliances.

Objective is the avoidance, the reduction as well as the environment-friendly disposal  of the increasing amount of e-waste by a widened manufacturer responsibility.

For the kolb cleaning systems / cleaning detergents the EU directive as per § 2 “ field of application” is not applicable.

Kolb acts in ful conformity with the WEEE directive for all its products.