Teresa Fenn, a Technical Director at RPA, will be presenting on the lessons learnt from coastal pathfinder projects in rollback and leaseback at the CIWEM conference on 6th October 2015 following completion of an evaluation of these schemes for Defra.

We have won a project to identify and evaluate the impact and consequences of implementing chemicals legislation for the European Commission!

We have five new members of staff joining our team.

ECHA’s Committees for Risk Assessment (RAC) and Socio-economic Analysis (SEAC) have recently published their final ‘combined’ opinion on the industrial use of trichloroethylene as a process chemical in caprolactam purification. The use was applied for in an application for authorisation submitted in August 2014 by Grupa Azoty S.A., one of Poland’s largest chemical companies.
RPA and their authorisation associates, FoBiG, were responsible for the development of the application dossier and collaborated with Grupa Azoty S.A. throughout all stages of the process.

New research by RPA points to the potential benefits of using manganese alloy slag in cement production