News
22/09/2023
Reclassification proposal for Methylene Chloride open for public consultation until 17 November 2023
ECSA members, acting via the Chlorinated Solvents REACH Consortium (ChlorSolv), are confident that the proposed classification is not justified
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30/03/2023
ECHA announces reclassification proposal for Methylene Chloride
ECSA and ChlorSolv members are still confident that the proposed classification is not justified in view of the plethora of high quality data.
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21/09/2022
ECSA nominates Jan Votava as new Management Committee Chair
Jan Votava of SPOLCHEMIE replaces Isabelle Gourdon of Kem One.
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06/12/2021
ECSA nominates new Management Committee Chair
Isabelle Gourdon of Kem One replaces Thorsten Schulz of Nobian, who has been the Chair for the past year.
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16/09/2021
Substance Evaluation Report on Methylene Chloride published
SEV conclusion report of Italy published on ECHA’s Substance evaluation - CoRAP website in late August 2021
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01/03/2021
ECSA Recommendations for Cleaning Machines for the use of chlorinated solvents now updated
Click here to take a look at the ECSA Recommendations for Cleaning Machines for the use of chlorinated solvents in dry cleaning and surface cleaning that has just been updated....
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12/01/2021
Nouryon announces renaming of Industrial Chemicals subsidiary
Industrial Chemicals business to be known as Nobian.
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11/01/2021
New scientific publication on carcinogenicity of methylene chloride
Paper published in Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology journal
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09/12/2020
Updated ECSA Infosheet on perchloroethylene now available in six languages
ECSA updated these language versions of the Information sheet in November 2020
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23/11/2020
Nouryon outlines sustainability approach
Click here to read more about ECSA member company Nouryon's approach to sustainability, which is based on further improving environmental footprint and safety performance; growing sustainable solution...
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15/10/2020
ECSA summary of work in Chlor-Alkali Industry Review 2019-2020
Click on www.chlorineindustryreview.com/products to read about the ECSA work carried out in 2019-2020 in the Euro Chlor Chlor-Alkali Industry Review.
This publication, first produced more than 25 y...
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24/09/2020
U.S. EPA’s holds webinar on methylene chloride risk evaluation and management
U.S. EPA’s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics holds the webinar under TSCA
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23/09/2020
ECSA nominates new Management Committee Chair
Thorsten Schulz of Nouryon Industrial Chemicals replaces Neil Rosenburgh of Inovyn, who has been the Chair for the past two and a half years.
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26/08/2020
New updated ECSA Infosheet on perchloroethylene now available
ECSA has updated its Information sheet in May 2020 to reflect the latest information for perchloroethylene
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24/06/2020
ECSA participates in HSIA high-level meeting
ECSA shared information about its communications and regulatory status
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11/06/2020
ESIG organises solvents@work webinar on 2 July 2020
Webinar about "how to safely handle solvents in the workplace”
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23/08/2019
New classification to be proposed for methylene chloride
In May 2019, Italy submitted to ECHA its intention to submit a reclassification proposal (‘CLH proposal’) regarding methylene chloride or dichloromethane (DCM), which only became publicly availab...
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23/07/2019
Nouryon increasing capacity of chloromethanes in Germany
ECSA member Nouryon will start construction in May on a project to further increase capacity for chloromethanes at its site in Frankfurt, Germany, expected to be completed in 2020. The company first i...
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11/02/2019
Angelica Candido joins as ECSA Sector Group Manager
This month, Angelica Candido started at Euro Chlor as Sector Group Manager for the European Chlorinated Solvents Association (ECSA) and European Fluorocarbons Technical Committee (EFCTC) Sector Groups.
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11/09/2018
TRI Authorisations granted
Trichloroethylene (TRI) can be used safely under controlled conditions. Five authorisations have been granted to BlueCube Germany (a subsidiary of Olin) to continue to produce TRI for specific uses,...
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18/02/2018
UBA PMT criteria published
The German Environment Agency (UBA, Umweltbundesamt) has published the assessment of "Persistence, Mobility and Toxicity (PMT)" with the desire to protect drinking water sources. Applying conservative...
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11/02/2018
New Study on Dichloromethane
Together with HSIA, ECSA supported a study to clarify the mode of action of cancer formation for Dichloromethane (DCM). The study results have been published end of 2018. The outcome of the study show...
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11/11/2017
Montreal Protocol Meeting – ECSA & HSIA side event
DCM & the ozone layer
24 November 2017 – 13hrs – Montréal
During this side event, we will provide you with scientific facts and figures on the worldwide production, emissions of the VSLS...
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20/02/2017
IOELVs for DCM, CTC and PER published
Indicative Occupational Exposure Limit Values (IOELVs) for DCM, CTC and PER have been published by the EU Commission (cf. DIRECTIVE (EU) 2017/164 of 31.1.2017), which are in line with the REACH DNEL...
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20/10/2016
New Study on DCM
Together with HSIA, ECSA supported a study to clarify the mode of action of cancer formation for methylene chloride (DCM). A publication is expected soon in a peer reviewed scientific journal. The out...
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18/10/2016
Hazards of PER Alternatives
As of 2013, the French Authorities have decided to progressively stop the use of dry-cleaning machines that use Perchloroethylene (PER) as cleaning solvent (cf. arrêté 2345), which is widely used wi...
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14/12/2014
Methylene chloride
Trained and certified professionals can use DCM based paint strippers in the UK.
The UK Authorities have launched in 2014 a public consultation that led to the vote by the UK Parliament for nationa...
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10/10/2014
Perchloroethylene
Download the ECSA News Release "No further information request" for the popular dry-cleaning solvent (PDF)...
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02/10/2014
ExpoDetergo in Milano
ECSA Manager was present at the ExpoDetergo International, Milano....
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18/01/2014
Carbon Tetrachloride
The ChlorSolv REACH Consortium has launched an appeal to ECHA's Board of Appeal against the ECHA decision following the CoRAP 2012 process (substance evaluation)....
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12/07/2012
Methylene chloride
A new study conducted by ECSA on biodegradation of dichloromethane in a closed bottle test according to OECD guidelines resulted in this finding. The study was required after an international agreemen...
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