Product stewardship

We maintain a database of environmental, health, safety and regulatory data for all of our substances and products. This underpins our programmes to maintain compliance with applicable global chemicals regulations (e.g. TSCA in the United States, REACH and REACH-like regulations in the EU, UK, Turkey, South Korea and China) as well as the provision of hazard communication to our customers in the form of safety data sheets and product labels in the required language(s) for the country of supply.

Regulatory compliance with global chemical control legislation.
Compliance with applicable chemical control legislation is critical to our license to operate and a non-negotiable. Global REACH and regulatory affairs professionals, in our central Product Stewardship function, manage registrations of all necessary substances in jurisdictions such as the EU, UK, China, South Korea, Turkey, and react to relevant evaluations or proposals for restriction, authorisation or other risk management measures. We engage with regulators and public consultations directly or through REACH consortia and trade associations, where necessary.
The Product Stewardship team also actively tracks developing regulatory regimes, for example, in India, Ukraine and Latin America to ensure potential impacts across our portfolio are understood early and commercial teams are well-informed.

We seek to replace chemicals and products with significant potential, if poorly managed, to harm human health or the environment – where safer and economic alternatives are available. When replacement is not possible, and through detailed risk assessment backed by extensive data packages, we ensure robust risk management measures are identified and in place in our operations and communicated to customers. We also work actively with other companies to provide regulators with the best available information on industry practice such that any regulatory restrictions can be properly evidence-based.

Our innovation and product stewardship standards emphasise the need to investigate whether safer alternatives are available and to prioritise their evaluation. Potential new products are assessed at an early stage of their development against safety, regulatory and sustainability criteria, with higher hazard chemistries being subjected to more detailed risk assessments before progressing.

We are aware of the increasing levels of concern over potential risks posed by a subset of PFAS entering the environment. Morgan is not a user PFAS and has no PFAS in our  products. We have limited presence of PFAS, specifically fluoropolymers, and industrial equipment in our manufacturing sites will also contain fluoropolymers in, for example, seals, lubricants and gaskets. We are committed to reducing our uses, developing alternatives, better understanding and limiting impacts on human health and the environment from PFAS in our operations.