IAEG Letterhead
Date: Date of sending
Subject: Request for Information (RFI) for Environmentally Compliant Chemical
Conversion Coatings
Salutation: Dear Sir/Madame
As you know, the EU REACH Regulation may lead to potential restrictions on the use of
Hexavalent Chromium (Cr+6) containing compounds due to ECHA evaluation of their
impact on the environment and public health. As a result of such regulatory actions, a
number of Aerospace companies are concerned about their continued ability to corrosion
protect Aluminum Alloy parts and satisfactorily meet their product design requirements,
particularly long term structural integrity in severe environments. This affects mainly
compounds containing CAS#’s 1333-82-0, 7738-94-5, 7778-50-9, 24613-89-6, 7789-12-0,
and 10588-01-9.
As an existing supplier of finishes and treatments for alloys used by the Aerospace
industry, the IAEG™ working group on “Replacement Technologies” solicits and welcomes
your response to this Request for Information for a chromate-free replacement for
chemical conversion coatings that have traditionally been used within the Aerospace
industry for protection of Aluminum alloys.
The IAEG™ is a non-profit corporation comprised of a global group of aerospace
companies, established to facilitate harmonization of implementation practices amongst
Aerospace Companies and their supply chains with the existing and emerging laws and
regulations protecting human health and the environment. More information on the
organization may be found at www.iaeg.com.
The IAEG™ “Replacement Technologies” Working Group’s is comprised of representation
by 17 of these major Aerospace companies. Its objective is to develop minimum
requirements for environmentally compliant technologies to replace substances currently
used in Aerospace products that are at risk for being at restricted, prohibited or otherwise
unavailable.
Your responses to this RFI will be protected from disclosure outside of IAEG™ member
companiesand the Replacement Technologies Working Group will distribute the results of
its evaluation of the responses to this RFI to all IAEG™ member companies, but not
individual responses from you (or other responding companies).
Although your response will therefore receive wide visibility with the potential user
community, we want to make it clear that successful compliance to requirements will not
constitute a commitment or guarantee from IAEG members to purchase material. After the
team’s evaluation, it will be for each IAEG member to decide on its own whether or not it
may be interested in your materials or technologies. IAEG members may have additional
requirements they may need to test and/or verify, and it will be up to individual member to
contact you and work with you on their interest, independent from this RFI.
Specific Instructions:
Attached you will find:
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A Performance Requirement Document (PRD) for “Chemical Conversion Coatings
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Our request is directed at seeking your proposal for a product that meets the requirements
of this PRD. Specifically, your response should include:
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Your companies’ proposed product that meets the requirements of this PRD, along
with any accompanying data sheets, and specific process instructions that are
required for application, to allow the treated material to meet PRD requirements.
A full description of the test regimen that your proposed solution has met (or plans
to meet) to validate the requirements of the PRD.
If you do not currently have a formulation and process to offer that meets the PRD
requirements, our Working Group will welcome submittals that include plans for
future development but, request that response include as much information on the
product as is currently available (e.g. subset of requirements is does meet, target
date for compliant product, proposed test regimen, etc.).
Please submit your intent to respond and any questions regarding this request by 29th
January 2016 to the point of contact (POC) listed below and we will supply answers to all
questions back to all suppliers by 12th February 2016 without revealing the source of the
question.
Please submit your final response by email or written correspondence by 26th February
2016
Responses or future submittals past these dates are always welcome and will be
distributed amongst Working Group members, but there will be no commitment by the
Working Group to evaluate to the same extent as those that respond on the schedule
above.
Upon completion of the IAEG™ “Replacement Technologies” Working Group evaluation,
suppliers may request feedback on the Working Group’s assessment of their particular
proposed product(s), and briefings will be scheduled within a reasonable timeframe, one
on one with each requesting supplier.
As we are interested in your industrially available product, please do not send us any
Proprietary or export sensitive data as part of your submission. Should we have any
reason to suspect that your submission contains such information, we will return it without
viewing or reviewing.
Point of Contact for intent to respond, questions and final submittal:
Becky DeGutis (bdegutis@sae.org)
400 Commonwealth Drive
Warrendale, PA 15096
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