Kemira's Reach Competence Center, founded in 2006, led the registration work. In addition to its own registration work, Kemira acted as the lead registrant for 20 different substances, of which 16 were registered due to the merging of Substance Information Exchange Forums (SIEFs). 1,600 companies in Europe participated in SIEFs led by Kemira. Kemira also worked actively in several voluntary consortia.”As product safety is extremely important to Kemira, and Reach implementation promotes this, we will continue the implementation of Reach by supporting the supply chain communication of the detailed product information required by the Reach regulation. Furthermore the registrations will require continuous updating," says Susanna Toivonen, Head of Product Safety at Kemira.The next registration phases are in 2013 and 2018, when Kemira needs to register 300 substances.