Rivertop Renewables (Missoula, Montana) announced that its sodium glucarate chemical has achieved registration under the European Chemical Agency’s (ECHA) (Helsinki, Finland) Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation.
REACH registration opens the door for the commercial deployment of products derived from sodium glucarate in markets across Europe, including Waterline CI and Headwaters corrosion inhibitor.
The registration confirms the health and safety characteristics of sodium glucarate for manufacturers, customers, regulators, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Europe. Sodium glucarate, based on glucaric acid (C6H10O8), only recently became available in commercial quantities due to Rivertop’s oxidation technology that transforms simple plant sugars into renewable chemicals.
“We are very excited to be offering products made from sodium glucarate to European markets, where there is a growing demand for chemical ingredients that are safer and high-performing,” says Jason Kiely, sales director at Rivertop. “Our European customers are already beginning trials, and we look forward to the positive impact that sodium glucarate can make in such a large market.”
Following the REACH registration, two European customers of Rivertop are beginning trials of the company’s Waterline CI, an alternative to phosphorous-based corrosion inhibitors in the water treatment industry.
Sodium glucarate is also a key ingredient in Rivertop’s Headwaters corrosion inhibitor, which protects vehicles and highway infrastructure from corrosion caused by salt brine used as a deicer on roadways.
Rivertop says it plans to develop additional applications for sodium glucarate in marine corrosion and rust removal.
The REACH registration of sodium glucarate comes less than a year after the chemical became the first corrosion inhibitor to be listed on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) (Washington, DC) Safer Chemical Ingredients List (SCIL), a key requirement of chemicals that are used to formulate products with the agency’s popular Safer Choice label.