Work safety is a clear priority at our company!

In accordance with the high standards in force in Germany, we are subject to the supervision of public authorities and trade associations and are supported by an externally certified work safety expert.

For your information, we summarise here a few of the most important topics arising from the extensive body of statutory regulations that apply to our products and services from the perspective of our relationships with customers and suppliers:

• RoHS – Restriction of Hazardous Substances

The European Community has produced two directives for limiting the presence of hazardous materials in electrical and electronic equipment in the form of the RoHS (DIR2002/95/EU) and WEEE (DIR2002/96/EU) directives, both of which are regularly updated. The RoHS directive restricts the percentage by weight of mercury, lead, cadmium, chromate and the bromine-containing flame retardants PBB and PBDE in electrical and electronic components to 0.1 per cent (or 0.01 per cent for Cd) in the interests of safe recycling.

As a manufacturer of products both with and without lead, we are familiar with the provisions of the RoHS directive and can support you in solutions for your product.

Similar limits apply in the automotive industry, for packaging and naturally for medical products and food-related consumer products.  

Even though this directive only applies in Europe, many other economic regions and globally active companies have established comparable regulations.

Should you have additional questions, please direct your enquiries by e-mail to: RoHS(at)eppsteinfoils(dot)de.
We would be happy to assist you..

• REACh – Registration, Evaluation, Authorization of Chemicals 

European Regulation No. 1907/2006 ("REACH") on the registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals heavily limits the free availability of substances. According to the principle of "no data = no market", a substance may only be handled and processed in the EU if it has been registered by the manufacturer or importer of the substance. Specific information on the hazard level and protection options must be available to the European Chemicals Agency (EChA) in accordance with the quantity. For this purpose, manufacturers and importers form substance-specific consortia to share the associated work and expenses within SIEFs (Substance Information Exchange Forums).

As defined by the European REACh regulation, we – as well as our customers –are downstream users and produce products (foils) from preparations (alloys). 

We maintain direct contact with our suppliers and the relevant REACh consortia and keep abreast of current developments. For this reason, we expect that all primary materials will continue to be available 

and we will continue to be able to deliver our products according to the established recipes.

In performing our preliminary work for the consortia, it is important for us to be informed about your application. Only this way can it be ensured that the substances are registered and certified according to your application.

In the interests of supporting our customers and their applications, we have voluntarily pre-registered our most important metals. This gives enables us to subsequently register any additional applications in cooperation with our customers.

All other substances contained in our products have been pre-registered by our suppliers according to the requirements of the "REACh" regulation.

Should you have additional questions, please direct your enquiries by e-mail to: REACh@eppsteinfoils.de. We would be happy to assist you.

• SVHC-( Substances of Very High Concern ) Statement

The European regulation 1907/2006 ("REACH") stipulates a special process for substances of very high concern according to article 59 (1, 10). Substances can be recommended for authorisation and restriction by EU Member States, the Commission and the ECha. This list of candidates is regularly expanded and currently comprises about 50 substances Listing as an SVHC does not represent a ban on a substance, but it does entail a notification requirement and produces some pressure to identify a replacement substance since an authorisation procedure for the substance could be initiated at any time. 

As our customer, we will quickly inform you if a substance in our product is added to the list. On the basis of a thorough inspection, we can assure you that, as of 15 January 2010, no substances from the SVHC list are present in our products or packaging at a level > 0.1 per cent by mass. 

We would be happy to answer any additional questions you may have. Please contact us by e-mail at: REACh(at)eppsteinfoils(dot)de.