The planned EU project to impose a blanket ban on the use of the entire PFAS group of around 10,000 substances jeopardizes numerous industrial processes - including the production and trade of industrial valves. These are used in important key industries: from the supply of gases to the production of vaccines and the pasteurization of milk. In order to protect the interests of the industry, the German Valves Association has drafted a statement for the industrial valves sector on the PFAS restriction project and has contributed its position to the corresponding EU consultation process.
The VDMA, as the mouthpiece of the entire mechanical and plant engineering sector, and the VDMA Valves Association therefore advocate better, more practical PFAS regulation and reject a blanket ban. "Without PFAS, industrial valves would no longer be usable in their sales sectors of the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, in power plant construction or in the current growth market of hydrogen, which would not only slow down the energy turnaround," emphasizes Axel Weidner, shareholder of Mankenberg GmbH and chairman of the Valves Association. "Without them, safe processes in the aforementioned system-relevant key industries are also not possible."