The manufacturers of Methanol join efforts for their REACH compliance activities and have launched on July 9th 2008 their Methanol REACH consortium.

Consortium description
Through the Methanol consortium, the manufacturers have decided to join efforts to prepare a consistent registration dossier building on the experience gained during the OECD/HPV program. The project management and secretariat of the consortium will be handled by ReachCentrum. The technical content preparation of the registration dossier will be managed by BASF Success Solutions experts.

Substance covered

Substance	EC number	CAS number
Methanol	200-659-6	67-56-1

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 Methanol consortium is open to any European and non-European companies manufacturing methanol as well as importers of the substance. Downstream users and other data holders are also invited to play an active role in the work of the Consortium.

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. Downstream users and other data holders are invited to play an active role in the work of the methanol consortium.

Uses covered in the joint submission
The uses covered in the joint submission can be found here.

Webinar for SIEF members
To help the SIEF members in the preparation and creation of the substance and dossier in IUCLID5, ReachCentrum has created a set of web recordings guiding you through the steps.
For only 120 €, you can access the set of recordings.
Click here to register and to receive access to the recordings.

Letter of Access
The LoA is now available. Please use this liink to access the LoA e-shop : http://loashop.reachcentrum.eu

Current members of the Methanol consortium

AB Lifosa  Ameropa GmbH Arkema France  BASF  BioMCN Cantazaro Ltd Chimica pomponesco S.p.A    Deutsche BP DuPont de Nemours S.a.r.l Dynea Chemicals Ecofuel SpA   Ercros Industrial  ExxonMobil Chemical Belgium  Hellenic Petroleum SA  HELM Kemira Oyj  Methanex Metpoll Trading Ltd, representing JSC Metafrax (Russia)  Mitsubishi International  Mitsubishi Gas Chemical GmbH Mitsui   Motor Oil (Hellas) Corinth Refineries  Nafta-Petroleum d.o.o  PCC, UK  Sabic Petrochemicals BV  Sadepan Chimica s.r.l  Shell Chemicals Europe  Solvadis Commodity Chemicals  StatoilHydro  TOTAL Raffinerie Mitteldeutschland

Interesting links
APPE - Petrochemistry
International Methanol Producers and Consumers Association
Methanol Institute
Cefic