REACH Requirements

REACH - Letter to Suppliers

GLOBAL CHEMICAL REGULATION

Pratt & Whitney continues to take a leadership role in the development of environmentally responsible products, services and operations.

The top priority of our Health & Safety programs is ensuring that employees remain healthy from hire to retirement, and our health and safety performance is considered an industry benchmark.

Pratt & Whitney Canada continues to invest in reducing waste products and eliminating toxic products in all our manufacturing facilities as well as when we collaborate and work with customers, suppliers and partners. We are committed to meeting the European REACH Regulations which mandate that  we communicate information on specific substances used in our engines. The information in the Safe Use Documents below details these requirements:

REACH – Safe Use Documents

This product is an article, without intended release of a chemical substance, under the REGULATION (EC) No 1907/2006 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH). This safe use document atisfies the REACH Article 33 Duty to communicate information on substances in articles.

Article 33

Duty to communicate information on substances in articles

Any supplier of an article containing a substance meeting the criteria in Article 57 and identified in accordance with Article 59(1) in a concentration above 0,1 % weight by weight (w/w) shall provide the recipient of the article with sufficient information, available to the supplier, to allow safe use of the article including, as a minimum, the name of that substance.

REACH Regulatory Compliance

Article 33 in the REACH regulation requires that safe use information be communicated for Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) when an article contains SVHCs in a concentration above 0.1 percent weight by weight (w/w). Pratt & Whitney has to date identified the following SVHCs at greater than 0.1 percent w/w in articles

Additional informations

REACH Regulation

REACH Guidance Information

REACH Q&A

Annx XIV

Candidate List

Contact

In case of questions please contact via e-mail: Reach.Compliance@pw.utc.com