Silicones Europe

Silicones Europe is a non-profit trade organisation representing all major producers of silicones in Europe. We provide information on silicones from a health, safety and environmental perspective.

Our primary mission is to raise awareness of silicones and their many uses as well as to promote their safety from a health, safety and environmental perspective.

What we do:

Commission, co-ordinate and guide scientific research on questions of health, safety and the environment.
Interpret and evaluate data.
Provide information and perspective to European and international regulators.
Co-ordinate input from the silicone industry on issues affecting the overall chemical sector.
Monitor and assess topics relevant to the silicone industry.
Liaise with sister organisations – especially the Silicones Environmental, Health and Safety Council of North America (SEHSC) and the Silicones Industry Association of Japan (SIAJ).
Provide information on the benefits of silicones in everyday life.

CHAIR

S. Kirschbaum (Evonik)

SUBSTANCES

Substances of interest: silanes, cyclic and linear volatile methylsiloxanes (VMS), silicone polymers (polydimethylsiloxane PDMS); functional silanes and (poly)siloxanes, etc.

MEMBERSHIP

8 Members:

CHT (DE) (UK) (IT), Dow Corning/Dow (UK) (BE) (DE) (USA) (JA), DuPont (CH), Elkem Silicones (FR)(US), Evonik (DE) (USA), Momentive (DE) (I) (USA) (JA), Shin-Etsu (NL) (DE) (USA) (JA), Wacker (DE) (USA) (JA)

OBJECTIVES

Silicones Europe has an active interest in the regulations on PBT/vPvB substances in the EU and internationally, REACH registration groups, Biocidal Products Directive/Regulation active substance registrations, Emissions Trading System directive, Water Framework Directive and daughter regulations, ecolabels, classification and labelling and endocrine modulation.

For more information:

www.silicones.eu

Twitter:

@siliconesEU

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