The manufacturers, importers, only representatives of Aluminium salts, Iron salts and Sodium Aluminate joined efforts for their REACH compliance activities and have transferred on February 13th 2009 their Aluminium and Iron salts (AlFe) REACH consortium to ReachCentrum for Secretariat activities.

Consortium description
Through the AlFe REACH consortium, the manufacturers, importers and only representatives have decided to join efforts to prepare consistent registration dossiers, building on the experience gained during the OECD/HPV program for Iron salts and pre-OECD/HPV program for Aluminium salts. The project management and secretariat of the consortium is handled by ReachCentrum.

The AlFe consortium is divided into 3 sub-consortia:

1. Aluminium (Al) salts sub-consortium
2. Iron (Fe) salts sub-consortium
3. Sodium aluminate (SodAl) sub-consortium

The Lead registrants are:

• Kemira Oyj for the Fe salts
• Kemira Oyj for the Al salts
• Remondis GmbH for the sodium aluminate (SodAl)

Substances
The following substances have been registered under the REACH legislation.

Fe Salts

For the Fe salts sub-consortium category (and various hydrates of these salts. All members of the category are inorganic salts of iron):

Substance names	EINECS	CAS	Substance Identification Profile
Diiron (III) trisulphate	233-072-9	10028-22-5	SIP
Iron(III) chloridesulphate	235-649-0	12410-14-9	SIP
Iron (II) sulphate	231-753-5	7720-78-7	SIP
Iron trichloride	231-729-4	7705-08-0	SIP
Iron dichloride	231-843-4	7758-94-3	SIP

More information on the Fe salts substances:

• Iron salts sub-consortium category uses which are covered in the Joint Registration Dossier (will be updated soon)

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Al Salts

For the Al salts sub-consortium category (and various hydrates of these salts. All members of the category are inorganic salts of Aluminium):

Substance names	EINECS	CAS	Substance Identification Profile
Aluminium sulphate	233-135-0	10043-01-3	SIP
Dialuminium chloride pentahydroxide	234-933-1	12042-91-0	SIP
Aluminum chloride, basic	215-477-2	1327-41-9	SIP
Aluminum chloride hydroxide sulfate	254-400-7	39290-78-3	SIP

• Aluminium salts sub-consortium category uses which are covered in the Joint Registration Dossier

SodAl

For the SodAl sub-consortium category:

Substance	EC number	CAS number	Substance Identification Profile
Aluminium sodium dioxide	215-100-1	1302-42-7	SIP
Aluminium sodium oxide	234-391-6	11138-49-1	SIP
Aluminium sodium tetrahydroxide	235-487-0	12251-53-5	SIP

More information on the Sodal substances :

• Sodium Aluminate sub-consortium category uses which are covered in the Joint Registration Dossier,
• Questionnaire on uses, please response by May 11, 2012

C&L inventory
In order to agree a common C&L entry for substances in the EU market, the consortium recommends any manufacturers, importers or downstream users of aluminium or iron salts to consult the C&L recommendation of the Joint Submission. The Joint C&L is already publicly available at the ECHA Chem dissemination website (http://echa.europa.eu/web/guest/information-on-chemicals/registered-substances), and also ticked as Joint Submission in the C&L database (http://echa.europa.eu/web/guest/information-on-chemicals/cl-inventory).

The list of ALFE substances are available on the  Consortium website and the C&L recommendations are posted in the SIEF Communication tool. Out of these, only iron sulfate (EC 231-753-5, CAS 7720-78-8) has a harmonized EU classification entry. All other substances are self-classified based on the joint dataset of the Consortium.

The C&L of the Joint Submission is based on the substance identity profile agreed in the ALFE REACH Consortium for a typical pure mono-constituent substance as produced. As the form, composition and impurities of the substance may vary case by case, various C&Ls may still remain for a substance on the market. Sometimes companies may also interpret the studies differently, or have access to different studies. In case of justified deviations, companies are recommended to document their arguments for using another C&L.

Letter of Access - SodAl
The LoAs for Al salts, Fe salts and SodAl  are now available. Please use this liink to access the LoA e-shop : http://loashop.reachcentrum.eu

More information on:

• Cost sharing principles
• LoA costs until the 2013 deadline
• Analytical Methods Recommendation
• 2013 Planning of the ALFE REACH Consortium

Membership
Manufacturers/ importers/ only representatives as defined in the REACH Regulation of the substance on its own, in preparations or in articles and who are subject to the registration requirements pursuant to the REACH Regulation, or Affiliates thereof and who participate in the consortium.

Membership is open to any applicant fulfilling the membership criteria. The AlFe consortium is open to any European companies manufacturing the above mentioned substances as well as importers of the above mentioned substances. All manufacturers/importers or only representatives, having data important for the dossier compilation are invited to contact the consortium secretariat to discuss access to the data.