Solutia Statement from the REACh Steering Team At Solutia, we are committed to meet our legal obligations under the European REACH regulation 1907/2006 as manufacturer and/or importer. A Vice-President level Steering Team is supervising the progress. Competent business teams have been created and are preparing for compliance. We firmly believe that REACh is in line with our approach to Product Stewardship. The technical details of the REACH regulation are still being developed. We are monitoring this closely and through our business teams will be communicating with suppliers and customers to gather the information needed for compliance in a timely manner. Customers based outside the EU should be aware that only EU based entities (manufacturers and/or importers) can (pre-) register. The fact that a European Solutia entity will have (pre-) registered a substance, is not sufficient to cover other importers, even if they import this substance purchased from non-EU based Solutia entities. We are investigating how we can help our non-EU customers, possibly through the appointment of an Only Representative, but no decisions have yet been made. Finally, we are counting on our customers and downstream users to cooperate with us and to provide us with the necessary information about use and handling of our products as required by REACh. If you want to learn more about REACh and REACh at Solutia, see What is REACh. Questions can be sent to reach.europe@solutia.com or reach@flexsys.com for the respective businesses. [Alternatively: For questions see "REACh contact information". Max McCombs, |
