Environmental Philosophy + Sustainability = Green Chemistry!

At CAPLNQ, we care about the envi­ron­ment and the role that we can play in pre­serv­ing it for our chil­dren and gen­er­a­tions to come. This means that we think about the appli­ca­tions where our prod­ucts are used and make a con­scious choice to use devel­op for­mu­la­tions that can be used for years to come with as lit­tle envi­ron­men­tal impact as possible.

As a means to mea­sure this impact, CAPLINQ designs mate­ri­als that are com­pli­ant to REACH and RoHS indus­try standards.

About REACH

Reg­is­tra­tion, Eval­u­a­tion, Autho­ri­sa­tion and Restric­tion of Chem­i­cals (REACH) is a Euro­pean Union Reg­u­la­tion that address­es the pro­duc­tion and use of chem­i­cal sub­stances, and their poten­tial impacts on both human health and the envi­ron­ment. REACH entered into force in 1 June 2007, with an aim to stream­line and improve the leg­isla­tive frame­work on chem­i­cal enter­ing into the Euro­pean Union and place greater respon­si­bil­i­ty on indus­try to man­age the risks that chem­i­cals may pose to the health and the environment.

About RoHS

The Restric­tion of Haz­ardous Sub­stances Direc­tive (RoHS) took effect on 1 July 2006, and is enforced by all coun­tries with­in the Euro­pean Union. RoHS is often referred to as the lead-free direc­tive, but it restricts the use of the fol­low­ing six substances:

1. 1. Lead (Pb)
2. 2. Mer­cury (Hg)
3. 3. Cad­mi­um (Cd)
4. 4. Hexa­va­lent chromi­um (Cr6+)
5. 5. Poly­bromi­nat­ed biphenyls (PBB)
6. 6. Poly­bromi­nat­ed diphenyl ether (PBDE)
7. 7. PBB and PBDE are flame retar­dants used in sev­er­al plastics.

For CAPLINQ, this means devel­op­ing mate­ri­als that meet these direc­tives, but devel­op­ing mate­ri­als that are com­pat­i­ble with oth­er raw mate­ri­als that also meet these direc­tives. Since REACH was intro­duced in 2007, focus has been on devel­op­ing REACH and RoHS-com­pli­ant materials.

As a result, more than five new mold com­pounds and coat­ing pow­ders have been devel­oped that are not only free of halo­gens, bromine, anti­mo­ny and phos­pho­rous, but also can with­stand the high­er process tem­per­a­tures imposed by lead-free sol­der materials. 

These mate­ri­als are of course REACH and RoHS com­pli­ant and are prime exam­ples of the inno­v­a­tive solu­tions CAPLINQ can devel­op for your com­pa­ny and application.

CAPLINQ is a spe­cial­ty chem­i­cals, plas­tics and prod­ucts com­pa­ny that spe­cial­izes in mak­ing for­eign com­pa­nies com­pete on a lev­el play­ing field with Euro­pean sup­pli­ers. Vis­it caplinq.com to learn more about our REACH ser­vices includ­ing our REACH Only Rep­re­sen­ta­tion. You can also con­tact us to under­stand more about our green chemistry.