Category Archive Highlighted

Bydeclic

Meet us at the Paris Packaging Week 2023

Paris packaging week 2023

You can meet us on January 25 and 26 at the Paris Packaging Week 2023. Our team will be present on the Comité Français des Aérosols (French Aerosol Committee or CFA) stand.

Bydeclic

Meet us at the Paris Packaging Week 2022

Paris Packaging Week 2022


On June 29 and 30, 2022, the LEREM will be present at the stand of the Comité Français des Aérosols (French Aerosol Committee or CFA) at the Paris Packaging Week

Bydeclic

Studies on aerosol dispensers

Aerosol dispensers

Working with the primary goal of preventing technical problems with new and existing products to ensure the safety of the aerosol dispensers industry.

Aerosol dispensers are the most technical packaging available.  

All the technical details that need to be controlled, in a very large industrial supply chain, must be realised so that, in the end, users can simply press the actuator of an aerosol can and the product is stored and dispensed correctly. 

First, it is necessary to ensure that the aerosol dispenser as a form of packaging is perfectly safe and remains stable over time. Stability of the packaged formula and stability of the integrity of the packaging. For cosmetic products, we often talk about guaranteeing a product for a period of 3 years.

Second, all of this must be guaranteed on a mass production scale. It is estimated that in 2019, 15.5 billion aerosol dispensers were produced worldwide, of which 5.5 billion were produced in Europe. 

Composition of an aerosol dispenser

To make an aerosol dispenser, you need to master a formula, a propellant gas, a can, a valve, an actuator.

It is also necessary to master the filling process, the sealing parameters, i.e. the valve-Can assembly, the valve gasket compression and the Clinching specification, not forgetting all the filling parameters.

All of this works thanks to defined specifications, norms and standards, but also thanks to specifications safety margins that this industry has set for itself for decades.    

Aerosol dispensers diagram

LEREM’s expertise

There are not many places of expertise able to synthesise all these constraints. LEREM tries to do this as well as possible, thanks to the means at its disposal.

These various means are :

  • Testing or stressing 
  • Filling 
  • Accelerated ageing tests by impedance measurement
  • Storage chambers from 0 to 50°C
  • Standard or customised flammability testing facilities for comparison purposes.
  • Virtually all the precision measurement equipment required for aerosol dispensers’ assessments : 
    • Weight +/- 0.003g
    • Pressure +/- 0.01 bar
    • Temperature +/- 1°C
    • Dimensional +/- 0,01 mm
    • All the adapted cutting equipment
    • The possibility to carry out resin studies 
    • Software for measuring crimping dimensions
    • Vision system to observe details of valve-housing assemblies.
    • Spray pattern measurement
    • Clogging tests
    • Laser particle size measurement of spray particles – Malvern Spraytech 2000. 
  • By the fact that LEREM has a recognised level of expertise and years of experience in this field. 
  • Its knowledge of aerosol dispensers’ industry supply chain and its network within this industry.
  • Its close relationship with CFA: French Aerosol Association and their agreement established in 2021 for the next few years. 
  • By the fact that it is an association of public utility, which guarantees its discretion, objectivity, and independence. 

More details about this subject on the dedicated page.

LEREM represents the industry and participates to fundamental studies 

  • The ECORBIO project, which aims to study the corrosion behaviour of piping with heat transfer fluids for the biorefinery circuits of the future using impedance measurement. In conjunction with INERIS, UTC, CETIM, UPJV.
  • MPE (Metal packaging Europe) working group and the compatibility studies contained in the passivation processes for tinplate, which by 2027 should make it possible to use only chromium VI-free passivated tinplate. In the field of aerosol dispensers, this concerns tinplate can and valve mounting cups.
  • The GDA (Gesamtverband der Aluminiumindustrie) supply chain meeting and the many questions raised by the use of alternative coatings to phenolic epoxy coatings. In the field of aerosol dispensers, this concerns aluminium aerosol cans. 
  • Various in-depth studies on existing aerosol dispensers’ flammability results, some of them linked to INERIS, which tend towards new gases development. 
  • The OLIGO project – a very recent ANR study on the NIAS for new internal coating generation in conjunction with LABERCA and INRAE.
  • Standards at national level at AFNOR (Commission de Normalisation AFNOR/H08F CN8 Emballages), at European level CEN (TC261/SC5 emballage métallique), at international level ISO TC52 (light gauge metal containers).
  • Accreditation of LEREM by the Ministry of Ecological Transition (DGPR) with regard to transport of hazardous materials.  

Do you want to carry out a study? Contact us for more information.

  • Parc industriel Européen
  • Les marches de l’Oise
  • Laboratoire LEREM
  • 100 rue Louis BLANC
  • 60160 Montataire (France)
  • Phone : 03 44 28 56 30
  • Cellphone : 06 37 05 21 94 
  • Email address: laboratoire@lerem.org
Bydeclic

New REACH and CLP informations

Image de la lettre d'information REACH CLP

In collaboration with the French Aerosol Committee, here is a summary of the points addressed by the french national regulatory assistance service. The new REACH and CLP informations are available in detail in a newsletter available for download at the end of this article.

 

New REACH informations


 

Restrictions

  • RAC and SEAC advice: Restriction of lead in buckshot, shooting bullets and fishing tackle
  • Call for contribution on 1,4-dioxane

SVHC Futures

  • Public consultation

Evaluation

  • CoRAP: 58 substances for 2021-2023
  • Registrants: get ready to comment on the draft decisions about substance assessment (CoRAP 2020)

Registration

  • PBT substances and applicable methods of analysis

SCIP database

  • Available webinar materials 

 

New CLP informations


 

Harmonized classification and labeling

  • Ongoing public consultations
  • RAC Opinion

Poison control center declarations

  • Update of the guide Annnex VIII

 

ECHA


 

Integrated regulatory strategy

  • “Mapping of the chemical universe” progress

 

POP


  • Public consultation: Pentachlorophenol

 

AGENDA


The new REACH and CLP informations are available in the attached document.

Loader Loading...
EAD Logo Taking too long?
Reload Reload document
| Open Open in new tab

Télécharger

 

Bylerem

FEA Congress 2021

The LEREM will attend to the 2021 virtual FEA congress

Bannière congrès aérosols
Bylerem

Quality Policy 2020

Loader Loading...
EAD Logo Taking too long?
Reload Reload document
| Open Open in new tab

Télécharger