REACH Certification Testing for Lithium Batteries

Lithium battery REACH certification testing. The EU's "Regulation on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals" (referred to as "REACH") has been officially implemented. According to the requirements of this regulation, the European Commission will establish a unified chemical monitoring management system and complete the management of all relevant chemicals by 2012.

Lithium batteries can be roughly divided into two types: lithium metal batteries and lithium-ion batteries. Lithium-ion batteries do not contain metallic lithium and are rechargeable. The fifth-generation product of rechargeable batteries, lithium metal batteries, was born in 1996. They outperform lithium-ion batteries in terms of safety, specific capacity, self-discharge rate, and performance-price ratio. Due to the high technical requirements of this technology, only a few companies in a few countries are producing this type of lithium metal batteries.

The test pages for lithium batteries under REACH are divided into single-group testing and mixed testing.

Single-group testing: This involves testing each group of metals and non-metals separately. Such testing is more suitable for suppliers of semi-finished products.

The mixed test refers to: the materials used in the product. All metals are tested together, non-metals are tested together, and the number of such test items is more often chosen by the customers who want to produce the final product.

REACH certification requirements for lithium batteries: The main content of REACH is to prove that the daily-use products do not contain harmful chemical substances to the human body. Therefore, all daily-use products produced in the European Union or imported to the EU market, mainly referring to textiles, must undergo registration, inspection and approval for the content of harmful chemical substances. Once the content exceeds the specified limit, they cannot be sold in the EU market.