FAQs

What is Colquimica Adhesives position on REACH? And regarding TSCA?

Colquimica Adhesives is a downstream user and is not responsible for the registration of any substance in the mixtures that we provide. However, and considering that a substance that is not registered is no longer available in the EU market, we have established contact with our suppliers, and we have received registration confirmations and applicable exemptions, allowing us to verify the compliance with the requirements of REACH Regulation.
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We may also inform that according to our present level of information, all raw materials that are obligatory for registration have been registered by our raw material’s suppliers. All raw materials, which substances manufactured or imported quantities of 1 to 100 tons per year, were obligatory registered until 31st May 2018. These substances have been pre-registered by our raw material’s suppliers and were expectedly registered until the referred period.
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All products purchased from Colquimica Adhesives will continue to be available in standard quality.

Colquimica Adhesives declares that all raw materials used in our products are compliant with the TSCA Chemical Substance Inventory, last updated: May 2024, and with the stats “Active”.

Does Colquimica Adhesives use SVHC in its products? And substances restricted?

Colquimica Adhesives declares that, accordingly to the information received from our raw materials suppliers, the products currently supplied to our customers, do not contain Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC), in quantities above 0.1%, as defined in Article 57 and included in the Candidate List, last updated: 27/06/2024, referred in Annex XIV of the REACH Regulation.

Please note that if a substance of very high concern "SVHC" is part of the formulation of any product that we supply to your company, in quantities exceeding 0.1%, you will be informed by an updated version of the MSDS, accordingly to the requirements of REACH.

Our products are not analyzed on a regular basis for the presence of the substances listed in the Annex XVII - Restrictions on the manufacture, placing on the market and use of certain dangerous substances, mixtures and articles - of REACH (last updated: 01/08/2024). However, these substances are not added to the manufacturing process or to the final products and, based on our best knowledge and raw materials supplier information, we have no reason to expect that these substances would be present, except for negligible quantities on the level of natural/technical impurities.

Are Colquimica products according to Proposition 65 List?

Our products are not analyzed on a regular basis for the presence of the substances listed in the Proposition 65 (last updated 29/12/2023), officially known as the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986. We also declare that these substances, which may cause cancer or reproductive toxicity, are not added to the manufacturing process or to the final products and, based on our best knowledge and raw materials supplier information, we have no reason to expect that these substances would be present, except for negligible quantities on the level of natural/technical impurities.

What’s the ROHS compliance status of Colquimica products?

RoHS states that “Member States shall ensure that from June, 8 of 2011, new electrical and electronic equipment put on the market does not contain lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) or polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE), including decabromodiphenyl ether”. To our best knowledge, these mentioned substances, and others like bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), butyl benzyl phthalate (BBP), dibutyl phthalate (DBP) and diisobutyl phthalate (DIBP), are not used as raw materials in our products, nor are they added during the production process or the final products. Although we do not routinely analyse our products for these substances, we have no reason to expect that these substances are present in our products in quantities above the maximum allowed in the European Directive RoHS 2015/863/EU (0,01% for Cadmium and 0,1% for the other mentioned substances).

Do our products contain conflict minerals?

Our products are not intentionally manufactured or formulated with the listed conflict minerals as per Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. - Columbite-Tantalite – refined into Tantalum (Ta) (CAS no. 7440-25-7); - Cassiterite – refined into Tin (Sn) (CAS no. 7440-31-5); - Wolframite – refined into Tungsten (W) (CAS no. 7440-33-7); - Gold (Au) (CAS no. 7440-57-5).We do not analyse our products for the presence of these substances, however, based on our best knowledge and raw materials supplier information, we have no reason to expect that these substances would be present, except for negligible quantities on the level of natural/technical impurities.

Do our products contain heavy metals?

Our products are not analyzed on a regular basis for the presence of the following heavy metals: mercury, lead, cadmium, chromium (VI). However, they are not used as part of formulation of our products, this means that the summary of the metals content of mercury, lead, cadmium, chromium (VI) is much lower than 100 ppm. Therefore, the products comply with Council Directive 94/62/EC (article 11) and its amendment 2009/292/EC on packaging and packaging waste with reference to heavy metals. The products are also in compliance with Model Toxics Packaging Legislation and California Toxics in Packaging Prevention Act (AB 455, AB 2021, SB 774).

Are our products from GMOs?

To the best of our knowledge, there are no raw materials, including additives that have been derived from genetically modified organisms (GMO), as defined in Directive 2003/89/EC, in our products. We do not analyze our products for the content GMO, however, based on our best knowledge and raw materials supplier information, we have no reason to expect that these substances would be present, except for negligible quantities on the level of natural/technical impurities.

What is the Colquimica role against Deforestation?

Colquimica Adhesives declares that all our hotmelt adhesives do not contain substances referred in Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, namely in Annex I “Relevant commodities and relevant products as referred to in Article 1” and neither derived from: - Cattle, Cocoa, Coffee, Oil palm, Rubber, Soya or Timber.However, these substances are not intentionally added to the manufacturing process or to the final products and, based on our best knowledge and raw materials supplier information, we have no reason to expect that these substances would be present, except for negligible quantities on the level of natural/technical impurities.

How we update our SDS?

As a manufacturer, we are responsible for update all our SDS whenever there are any changes. Please note that there is no regulation that requires the SDS to be updated regularly and they are not updated every 5 years. The SDS are provided to our customers whenever they purchase a new product or, upon an update, for all the products purchased in the last 12 months.