How chromium bans and carbon rules reshape catalyst recipes
What this tab covers How it is regulated and what could disrupt supply: hazard classification, rules in the EU, US and India, anti-dumping duties and other trade measures, and supply-risk notes.
Worker exposure to nickel, chromium and vanadium dusts; self-heating of reduced catalysts.
Main rules
Where
Rule
Effect
EU
REACH Annex XIV authorisation for chromium(VI) compounds; nickel compound classification
pushes chromium-free shift catalysts
EU
ETS and Industrial Emissions Directive
values selectivity and N2O abatement catalysts
US
RCRA rules on spent catalysts
reclamation
India
Rule
Effect
Hazardous and Other Wastes Rules 2016
spent catalysts to authorised recyclers
Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (2023) and Green Hydrogen Mission
incentive for N2O abatement and green ammonia catalysts
Trade measures
none specific to catalysts identified
Supply risk
Supplier concentration by niche; PGMs, vanadium and nickel are critical minerals in EU and US lists. JM's sale of Catalyst Technologies to Honeywell (completed July 2026) puts a major syngas and methanol licensor alongside UOP under one owner.