REACH

Software, Consulting and Services
to ensure your REACH compliance

REACH Comliance

We guarantee your REACH compliance because we all pull in one direction with you and your suppliers!

REACH is the European Chemicals Regulation No. 1907/2006. It regulates the registration, evaluation, and authorization of chemicals and protects humans and the environment from hazardous substances. It affects not only chemical manufacturers, but all companies that import substances or use them in production (downstream users).

REACH compliance means knowing which substances are contained in the company’s own product. This is inextricably linked with the willingness of the supplier to provide the necessary information to the customer. As a result, the situation can be summed up with a simple equation:

Product Compliance =
Parts Compliance x Willingness to Communicate

Most systems or supplier requests fail because of the multiplicator “supplier’s willingness to communicate”. The first task of every REACH communication is to improve this state of affairs and requires the following:

  • Communication software that addresses the supplier sensitively and individually

  • Trained personnel who support the supplier in this area, in operating the software, and in providing individual data.

REACH compliance is a holistic task that can only be solved in partnership with the supplier.

REACH Software DataCross

REACH-Software DataCross
for material compliance communication & assessment

Data Cross is a cloud-based application that communicates material data, information about the regulated substances and material safety data sheets in the supply chain.

DataCross ensures your products conformity with laws like REACH by mapping your material requirements from the development via procurement and production through to the use and processing of your products and holistically assessing your material compliance risks.

The REACH software is based on technical system features such as sensitive correspondence with the suppliers. This ensures that the addressed suppliers join in with the communication and provide the required information. A REACH supplier evaluation is carried out using a company-specific questionnaire. The system-based evaluation of the submitted material declarations allows you to identify hazardous parts in the context of a REACH product assessment.

Our services for your REACH compliance

Status analysis

After the status analysis, you will know how your company will be affected. The obligations which result from the analysis enable you to forecast any risks or potentials facing your company. The status analysis also helps you taking inventory in order to determine your company‘s current level of implementation of REACH regulations. The objective here is to guarantee the availability of all the parts and materials you need for production.

REACH Process Workshop

During the process workshop, operative and process-based measures are discussed and defined with all the affected areas, and then given the necessary resources.

REACH Communication

According to Article 33 of the REACH Regulation, it is necessary to inform the customer about any SVHC contents greater than 0.1% in the company’s own products. tec4U researches the relevant information at the supplier, collates it into a product statement and communicates this data to the customer. For this purpose, tec4U uses the company’s own REACH software, DataCross. In the same way, safety information sheets are recorded in the integrated hazardous materials register, GeMaSy.

REACH Coordinator

If required, tec4U will accompany the REACH process in full (temporarily or even permanently) by taking over the role of an external “REACH Coordinator”.

REACH training

The training makes your employees aware of the applicable regulations and explains what the necessary steps are. We give you an overview of all obligations that may arise from REACH and show you the possible consequences of those obligations.

Services +

Alongside the original services relating to compliance with the REACH regulation, tec4U also offers additional services to support the REACH process and to implement material compliance requirements:

Production of a Manufacturer Standard for Material Compliance

The basis for every material data management system is the creation of integral communication of specifications to the suppliers and the related setting of standards. In this sense, it is necessary to bundle the customer requirements and to compare them with the existing statutory requirements and/or standards and directives. To give this manufacturer standard for material compliance the necessary judicial substance, it is also essential to integrate the manufacturer standard into the existing contractual regulations relating to the supplier and to publish it as a document in the management system.

By customer order, tec4U produces and maintains the manufacturer standard for material compliance, provides relevant training and monitors its implementation in the company.

Chemical Analysis for Proving Compliance with Specific Requirements

Not all manufacturers and suppliers take part in material data communication systems. To allow the company to provide proof of compliance despite this, tec4U offers the possibility of having products chemically analyzed with the help of a partner laboratory.

With the help of a quantitative, chemical analysis, the sample materials are examined for various substances/substance groups.

The laboratory possesses certification in accordance with

  • ISO 17025
  • OECD Principles of Good Laboratory Practice

To reduce the number of individual analyses as far as possible to a (cost) minimum, we offer the use of mixed samples (composition of basic materials), which only need to be divided into individual examinations in the event of a positive result.

FAQs on REACH & Material Compliance

REACH is European Regulation No. 1907/2006 concerning the registration, evaluation, and authorization of chemicals with the aim of improving the control of hazardous chemicals to protect humans and the environment (in force since June 1, 2007).

REACH compliance means knowing which substances are contained in your own product. This requires suppliers to be willing to provide the necessary information.

Any company that imports substances or uses them in production is considered a downstream user and is subject to REACH obligations.

  • Clarification of one’s own role under REACH
  • Communication of SVHC substances (>0.1%) in products
  • Review of the currency and applicability of safety data sheets

tec4U offers a comprehensive service package comprising consulting, software, and operational support:

Knowledge
REACH consulting (development, implementation, monitoring)
Risk and impact analyses
Seminars and workshops
Experienced REACH consultants

Software
Material data communication software DataCross

Resources
Operational supplier and customer communication
Assumption of the role of external REACH coordinator or REACH representative

  • TSCA Chemical Substance Inventory / USA
  • K-REACh or AREC – Act on the Registration and Evaluation of Chemicals in Korea (in force since January 1, 2015)
  • China REACH or IECSC – Inventory of Existing Chemical Substances / China (since October 15, 2010)
  • EHSNR – Regulation on the Notification and Registration of Environmentally Hazardous Substances / Malaysia (since 2011)
  • TCSCA – Toxic Chemical Substances Control Act / Taiwan
  • KKDIK – Chemicals Regulation / Turkey

Any questions?

Stefanie Huber

+49 681 92564 – 122

s.huber@tec4U-solutions.com

We look forward to supporting you.