News & Events

Topics: COVID-19 & solvents role, ESVOC, Specific Environmental Release Categories (SPERCS), SOLVENTS@WORK campaign, ESIG AWARD, Solvents VOC, CEPE and EU climate law

Topics: ESIG Award, UN SDGs, safe handling of solvents film, training courses, STS BREF, dossier quality, VOC inventories, generic exposure scenarios, human exposure database for solvents

Topics: Solvents Award, relaunch of the downstream user platform, measuring solvent vapour concentrations, good practices in OSH, training course, air quality, and specific release categories

Topics: generic exposure scenario tools, experimental assessment of exposure during spraying activities, LCA data to define product environmental footprints, ESIG Solvents Award, SPERCS background, industry facts and figures, solvents training

Topics: REACH deadline? – Updating the Reciprocal Calculation Procedure (RCP) – New study on the efficiency of risk management measures –  EU-OSHA campaign – Introduction to the Solvents Industry Training – The challenge of VOC emissions inventories and European ozone – Downstream User Box – Cefic Box

Topics: New safety video – Website highlights – Bio-based solvents standard – ESIG inventory part of EEA Technical Guidance – ESVOC paper indoor air quality updated – Generic Exposure Scenario – Downstream User Box – Cefic Box

Topics: Meet the team – Catch up with ESVOC – Making REACH compliance easier – Training on solvents – EU adopts limits on air pollutant emissions – Setting a standard definition for mineral oil – Improving REACH with PetCo – Bio-based solvents

Topics: OSPA and HSPA general assemblies – ESIG new logo and website – GES, smarter and simpler – Solvents@work videos on free USBs – CEFIC update on industry competitiveness – Europe’s air quality challenge – NEC Directive update

Topics: ‘Real-life’ exposure to solvents – Hydrocarbon solvents: cracking the code – Controlling solvent vapour emissions – The importance of sustainability – The air quality challenge

Topics: Fresh ideas for a sustainable future – GES and EGRET updates – Launch of best practice guide, ‘Managing the Health Risks
of Solvent Exposure’ – HSPA analysis on Occupational Exposure Limits (OELs) – European Parliament commits to improve air quality

Topics: New VOC Solvent Emissions Inventory – Building the bridge between academia and industry – ESIG rewards commitment and excellence – ESIG on the new OECD guidance – ESIG and SIA partnership – ESIG recognised for supporting healthy workplaces

Topics: Dr Robert Oades appointed new ESIG chairman – ESIG Product Stewardship Award – Reviewing the classification of three white spirits – CEFIC sustainability report: teaming up for a sustainable Europe

Topics: REACH, an opportunity for engagement with ECHA – Milestone reached in EU standardisation of bio-based solvents – EU’s new air quality package – Flammability guide – First international congress for safety and health at work

Topics: Partnering to ensure safer workplaces – Downward trend for solvent inhalation exposures – ESIG Product Stewardship Award – RoSPA presents SIA with SME assistance trophy

Topics: EU reviews air quality framework – Progress on EU standardisation of bio-based solvents – European chemical industry at the forefront of energy efficiency – Helping downstream users with safety evaluation

Topics: ESIG supports the European agency for safety and health at work – Multisol celebrates ESIG Product Stewardship Award – New addition to the generic exposure scenarios library – Inventory to calculate VOC emissions from solvents

Topics: Development of EU standards on bio solvents – Air quality: revision of the Gothenburg Protocol adopted – REACH substance evaluation list– Exemplary initiatives to promote the safe use of solvents