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 technical content preparation of the registration dossier will be managed by:

• Kemira Oyj (Lead Company or LC) + Peter Fisk Associate (Consultant) for the Fe salts
• Kemira Oyj (LC) + Akzo Nobel Technology & Engineering (Consultant) for the Al salts
• Remondis GmbH (LC) + DR. KNOELL CONSULT GmbH (Consultant) for the sodium aluminate (SodAl)

Substances
The following substances have to be registered under the REACH legislation. For the Fe salts sub-consortium category (and various hydrates of these salts. All members of the category are inorganic salts of iron):

Substance	EC number	CAS number
Ferric sulfate	233-072-9	10028-22-5
Ferric chloride sulfate	235-649-0	12410-14-9
Ferrous sulfate	231-753-5	7720-78-7
Ferric chloride	231-729-4	7705-08-0
Ferrous chloride	231-843-4	7758-94-3

Get information on the Iron salts sub-consortium category uses to be covered in the Joint Registration Dossier.

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

Substance	EC number	CAS number
Aluminium sulfate	233-135-0	10043-01-3
Dialuminium chloride pentahydroxide	234-933-1	12042-91-0
Polyaluminium chloride	215-477-2	1327-41-9
Polyaluminium chloride hydroxide sulphate	254-400-7	39290-78-3
Polyaluminumsulphate	259-881-7	55892-56-3

Get information on the Aluminium salts sub-consortium category uses to be covered in the Joint Registration Dossier.

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For the SodAl sub-consortium category:

Substance	EC number	CAS number
Sodium aluminate	215-100-1	1302-42-7
Aluminium sodium dioxide	215-100-1	1302-42-7
Aluminium sodium oxide	234-391-6	11138-49-1
Aluminium oxide, reaction product with  sodium hydroxide	296-715-2	93028-24-1
Aluminium sodium tetrahydroxide	235-487-0	12251-53-5

Get information on the Sodium Aluminate sub-consortium category uses to be covered in the Joint Registration Dossier.

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.

On October 1st 2009, 50 companies were regular members of the AlFe REACH consortium, with some companies in the process of accession.