New EC chemicals law to be in place by 2005

摘要

New laws governing chemicals in the European Union are taking shape in Brussels and are expected to take effect by 2005 at the latest. The legislators have decided that metals should be classed as chemicals, and that will have a significant impact on the PM business. Kennametal's Klaus Goerting and the EPMA's Technical Director, Peter Brewin, set out some proposed responses from the European Hard Materials industry at the Euro PM2002 Conference in Lausanne last month, which centred on hard materials and diamond tooling...