Chemicals
Foresight tracks what reaches your substances, plants and customers, from classifications to exposure limits, and runs the projects that follow.
ProjectsPortfolio impact assessment
- Helen Achterberg
- Tomasz Nowak
- Aisha Bello
| Product | Oleates | NEP | New classes | HazCom |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wetting agent | ||||
| Coating additive | ||||
| Solvent blend | ||||
| Alcohol ethoxylate |
- Oleates: Reclassify
- NEP: New SDS
- HazCom: Update
- New classes: Assess
- No change
Wetting agent Sulfonated oleates, Repr. 1B
Impact: ReclassifyNew label and SDS by 1 February 2027
- Hazard
- Repr. 1B, H360D
- Customers
- Revised SDS to the past year’s buyers
- Early use
- Suppliers may relabel now
Wetting agent DMAC and NEP restriction
Impact: No changeContains no NEP or DMAC
- Covers
- NEP or DMAC at 0.3% or more
- Applies
- After 23 December 2026
Wetting agent New CLP hazard classes
Impact: AssessClassify by 1 November 2026
- Classes
- Endocrine disruption, PBT, vPvB, PMT, vPvM
- On sale
- Before 1 May 2025
- Customers
- A revised SDS if it classifies
Wetting agent OSHA Hazard Communication
Impact: No changeMet the date for substances
- Substances
- Due 19 May 2026
- Customers
- Employers update by 20 November 2026
Coating additive Sulfonated oleates, Repr. 1B
Impact: No changeContains no sulfonated oleate
- Covers
- Sulfonated oleic acid, potassium salts
- Applies
- From 1 February 2027
Coating additive DMAC and NEP restriction
Impact: New SDSWorker limits in its SDS by 23 December
- DNELs
- 4.0 mg/m³ inhaled, 2.4 mg/kg bw/day skin
- Customers
- Keep workers below the DNELs
Coating additive New CLP hazard classes
Impact: AssessClassify by 1 May 2028
- Classes
- Endocrine disruption, PBT, vPvB, PMT, vPvM
- On sale
- Before 1 May 2026
- Customers
- A revised SDS if it classifies
Coating additive OSHA Hazard Communication
Impact: UpdateUS label and SDS by 19 November 2027
- Mixtures
- 19 November 2027
- Customers
- Employers update by 19 May 2028
- Extended
- Every date by four months
Solvent blend Sulfonated oleates, Repr. 1B
Impact: No changeContains no sulfonated oleate
- Covers
- Sulfonated oleic acid, potassium salts
- Applies
- From 1 February 2027
Solvent blend DMAC and NEP restriction
Impact: No changeContains no NEP or DMAC
- Covers
- NEP or DMAC at 0.3% or more
- Applies
- After 23 December 2026
Solvent blend New CLP hazard classes
Impact: AssessClassify by 1 May 2028
- Classes
- Endocrine disruption, PBT, vPvB, PMT, vPvM
- On sale
- Before 1 May 2026
- Customers
- A revised SDS if it classifies
Solvent blend OSHA Hazard Communication
Impact: UpdateUS label and SDS by 19 November 2027
- Mixtures
- 19 November 2027
- Customers
- Employers update by 19 May 2028
- Extended
- Every date by four months
Alcohol ethoxylate Sulfonated oleates, Repr. 1B
Impact: No changeContains no sulfonated oleate
- Covers
- Sulfonated oleic acid, potassium salts
- Applies
- From 1 February 2027
Alcohol ethoxylate DMAC and NEP restriction
Impact: No changeContains no NEP or DMAC
- Covers
- NEP or DMAC at 0.3% or more
- Applies
- After 23 December 2026
Alcohol ethoxylate New CLP hazard classes
Impact: AssessClassify by 1 November 2026
- Classes
- Endocrine disruption, PBT, vPvB, PMT, vPvM
- On sale
- Before 1 May 2025
- Customers
- A revised SDS if it classifies
Alcohol ethoxylate OSHA Hazard Communication
Impact: No changeNot sold in the US
- Covers
- Chemicals supplied to US workplaces
- Sold in
- The EU and GB
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Rules reach every step, from suppliers to customers
One rule at each step of a typical chemicals organisation, and what it means for you.
Suppliers
Since October 2026, EU REACH has banned PFHxA in consumer mixtures, which may cover C6 fluorosurfactants you buy.
Your sites
Since April 2026, the EU carcinogens at work directive has limited benzene at your plants to 0.2 ppm.
Your products
Ethoxylated surfactants you sell can carry 1,4-dioxane, which New York caps at 1 ppm in household cleaners.
Your markets
Substances you export to Türkiye at 1,000 tonnes a year or more need KKDIK registration by the end of 2026.
Your customers
EU REACH makes you tell customers that their workers must be trained before using your diisocyanate crosslinkers.
Projects for chemical manufacturers
Each is scoped to your substances, mixtures and markets, and Foresight checks every result against its source.
Understand your exposure
All 7 projects- Portfolio impact assessmentWhich of your surfactants, solvents and additives a new classification or restriction reaches, by formulation and market.
- Substance risk heatmapHow hard the rules press on each substance you make or buy, market by market, on one grid.
- Market entry requirementsWhat a substance or mixture needs before it sells in a new market, from inventory listing to labels.
- Global legislation registerThe chemical laws that apply to the substances you make and sell in each market, what each requires and what comes next.
- Sustainable procurement reviewYour raw material suppliers’ declarations and certificates, checked against your requirements, with what’s missing or out of date.
Keep watch
All 3 projects- Regulatory horizon scanningNew rules on the substances you make and sell, scored for your markets, most important first.
- Consultation trackingOpen consultations on classifications and restrictions that touch your substances, with the date each one closes.
- Scientific literature monitoringNew papers on the substances you make and sell, scored against the endpoints your toxicologists track.
Keep documents current
All 4 projects- Customer compliance declarationsAnswers to the substance questionnaires your customers send on each product, drawn from your own records.
- Safety data sheet change managementUpdated safety data sheets when a classification or exposure limit changes, each change checked against its source.
- REACH dossier updatesYour registrations checked when a new classification or new data triggers an update under Article 22.
Meet an obligation
All 9 projectsDescribe the work. Foresight runs it and checks it.
Every project runs the same way, whatever the regulation. Here Foresight answers a customer’s substance questionnaire from your own records, and asks your suppliers for the rest.

Illustration of one project. The request reads: Answer this customer’s substance questionnaire from our records, and ask suppliers for what’s missing. Foresight reads the customer’s 86 questions and replies: I’ll answer what I can from your formulations, ask suppliers for the rest, and check each answer against its source. It plans the work: Read the questionnaire, Match each question to your records, Ask suppliers for the rest, Draft each answer with its source. Your records answer 79 of 86 questions. Foresight asks 3 suppliers for the other 7. Foresight checks each answer against its source, such as a supplier’s declaration that no PFAS are intentionally added. The answers go into the customer’s own file, each with its source, ready for Priya Nair, Product Stewardship Manager, to send back. Foresight goes on monitoring the rules behind each answer.
Say what you need in plain words, and share what you already have.
Foresight sets the scope, plans the work and drafts each deliverable with the sources it rests on.
Foresight checks each answer against its source.
The work comes back ready to use, and Foresight keeps it current as the rules change.
Your data, kept secure
Your data is kept in your organisation’s own workspace, separate from every other customer’s. It is encrypted in transit and at rest, including nightly backups, and is not shared with model providers for training. Foresight runs regular penetration tests.
How Foresight protects your data
What chemical makers ask
Can Foresight tell us which products a change reaches?
A portfolio impact assessment checks each product against each change, using its formulation, its classification and where it sells. Each finding says what the change requires of the product and what your customers need, such as a revised safety data sheet. Foresight checks every finding against its source, and what you change stays your call.
Can Foresight prepare our REACH registrations?
Yes, for EU and UK REACH, from the data gap analysis to a dossier ready to submit. Foresight checks each dossier against its sources, and your organisation submits it. When a new classification or new data triggers an update under Article 22, Foresight checks the registrations you already hold.
Does Foresight cover the markets we export to?
Yes. Foresight watches the chemical inventories and control laws of markets from Canada and Brazil to China, Korea and Japan, and scores each change for the substances you sell there. Coverage varies by market, so scoping starts with where you sell.
Does Foresight cover our plants as well as our products?
Yes. Foresight watches exposure limits, major-accident rules such as Seveso III and the permits for what your plants emit. An exposure limit review checks the limits for the solvents and isocyanates handled at each plant.
What do you need from us?
A description of the work and the substances and mixtures it covers. Useful inputs include your product lists, formulations, safety data sheets and registration numbers, the sites you run and the markets you sell into. You also set how the work is judged, such as your own scoring scale.
Tell us the work you need done
Foresight talks through your substances, mixtures and markets with you. You’ll see the scope and the price before the project starts.

