...The Houston-based arm of a U.K. product compliance services company has bought Ottawa's Ageus Solutions. Intertek Group has offered an initial cash consideration of 900,000 pounds or the equivalent of C$1.75 million for Ageus, which provides environmental compliance and hazardous materials consulting services for the North American electronics and manufacturing industry.... more...

...Europe's comprehensive new program to monitor and restrict chemicals is causing suppliers and chip vendors alike to scramble to meet the program's early-stage requirements, according to speakers at an International Sematech Manufacturing Initiative (ISMI, Austin, Texas) workshop held Monday. The European Union's Registration, Evaluation, and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) program, signed into law June 1, 2007, has cost implications that could make manufacturing in Europe overly expensive, said Dawn Speranza, an Intel Corp. environmental, health and safety (ESH) engineer.... more...

...SinoApps, the first provider of online China RoHS application for manufacturers, today announced its services have been affirmed by China Ministry of Information Industry (China MII) - the regulatory body of China RoHS. "Not only does SinoApps provide its customers' China RoHS needs, it also helps companies develop growing business in China." said Mr. Shaojun Yang , Deputy General Director of Ministry of Information Industry of Shandong Province, China. Details of this endorsement can be found at www.sinoapps.com.... more...

...Ageus Solutions, a leading end-to-end environmental compliance solution provider that works with companies world-wide to rapidly and cost-effectively fulfill the European Union's environmental compliance requirements is offering new "on-call" consulting services for the European chemical regulation REACH.... more...

...BASF Aktiengesellschaft is hosting a one day seminar on the new EU chemicals legislation entitled Together ready for REACH on November 26, 2007 in Ludwigshafen. The new EU chemicals regulation for Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) came into force on June 1, 2007. The seminar, "Together ready for REACH", is aimed at manufacturers, users and importers of chemical substances from all industrial sectors. BASF’s experts will be providing information on all REACH-related issues ranging from stocktaking through analysis of incomplete data and pre-registration to chemical safety reports.... more...