Copper Flue Dust

Flue Dust, Copper Refining under REACH

With the support of ECI and the REACH Copper Consortium member experts, the joint registration dossier for flue dust, copper refining has been updated and successfully submitted in 2023.

Flue dust, copper refining description:

Product recovered from exhaust gas streams found in furnaces, flues and settling chambers as a result of roasting, smelting and converting operations from copper refining processes.  Constituents found as end products are dependent upon the materials used during the various operations.

In April 2014, the joint dossier was extended to satisfy REACH Art 10 conditions, including the provision of a joint Chemical Safety Report (CSR)

The latest update submission has been completed in August 2023. This important update follows recommendations from the Metals and Inorganics Sectoral Approach (MISA) program and later exchanges with ECHA in this context. This substance is a complex inorganic substance, assigned as UVCB under REACH. Additional assessment reports are introduced in IUCLID section 13.2. The MISA cooperative program has been set up by ECHA and Eurometaux, the European non-ferrous metals association, to address technical and scientific issues facing the metals and inorganics sectors, and to improve the registration dossiers in these sectors.

Depending on their own manufacturing and use profiles, individual members of this joint registration may have decided to register the substance in accordance with Strictly Controlled Conditions (SCC) requirements (REACH Articles 17/18), or as a full registration (REACH Article 10).

ECI will continue to offer Letters of Access to registrants. Please contact the Secretariat at reach@copperalliance.org for the terms & conditions, as well as the application form.

ECI’s REACH Classification and Labelling proposals for Flue dust, copper refining under REACH in accordance with the CLP Regulation (EC) 1272/2008.

Flue dust, copper refining