REACH - The European regulation for chemical substances

The term REACH stands for a regulation called Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals. Its scope covers manufacturers or importers of more than one tonne of substances per year into the European Union. The REACH directive is only partially valid for igus®: As a manufacturer of cables, the company is defined as a so-called "downstream user" with regard to the value-add chain. Nevertheless, the contents of the REACH directive and its rules for the production and processing of chemical substances are observed at igus®. For example, no chemicals are used in the production of chainflex® cables that are above the applicable REACH limits. The entire range of chainflex® cables is free from materials such as sodium peroxometaborates, cadmium sulphides or also dihexyl phthalates.

REACH stands for Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction of Chemicals. REACH is a European Union regulation (EC 1907/2006) that came into force on 1/6/2007.

For our chainflex cables, this means the following:

The REACH directive is only partially valid for igus®: As a manufacturer of cables, the company is defined as a "downstream user" with regard to the value-added chain. Nevertheless, the REACH directive's contents and rules for producing and processing chemical substances are observed at igus®. For example, no chemicals above the valid REACH limits are used in the production of chainflex® cables. The entire range of chainflex® cables is free from materials such as sodium peroxometaborates, cadmium sulphides, and dihexyl phthalates.