Press Room

Monday, September 25, 2006 — 3E Company®, the leading provider of Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) compliance and information management services, today announced the availability of new chemical and regulatory data management services for the ProSteward user community. These new services allow customers to effectively manage the complex and time-consuming tasks related to their data management process by outsourcing the monitoring and maintenance of the chemical and regulatory content residing in their in-house EH&S platforms. Access to and maintenance of this data is necessary for identifying areas such as regulatory, health effects and environmental effects which may impact the products they produce and or sell.

3E Company's chemical and regulatory data management services can be used in conjunction with most commercially available EH&S platforms, including ProSteward, a leading platform for product stewardship that is used in more than 200 countries. The services include data and document obtainment, data extraction, research and maintenance.

Secure, remote network connections enable 3E Company's experienced EH&S professionals to monitor the chemical and regulatory data residing on a client's EH&S platform for potential changes. When new materials are added or a material's formula changes, 3E Company helps identify the exact composition of the material, and compiles the necessary information for each of the components to facilitate compliance with regulatory requirements that are key to the client's business. 3E Company can also continuously monitor MSDSs for materials used by the client and update the client's system with the new information. Effective chemical and regulatory data management can positively impact the efficiency of hazard communications and improve the quality of MSDS documents.

Chemical data management customers benefit from 3E Company's substantial experience in data gathering and data management and its unparalleled access to a vast network of chemical and regulatory information. These industry-leading resources, including 24/7/365 access to 3E Company's staff of knowledgeable EH&S professionals, can be combined with customer's business rules for chemical and regulatory data management in order to facilitate a prompt and appropriate response to constantly changing regulatory information. Outsourcing chemical and regulatory data management efforts to 3E Company can increase EH&S productivity and improve compliance with various domestic and international regulations.

"The introduction of our chemical and regulatory data management services further expands 3E Company's broad service offering and allows ProSteward users to optimize their chemical and regulatory data flow with 3E Company's best practices," said Bob Christie, president and CEO, 3E Company. "3E Company's services simplify the data management process and save our customers valuable time and money."

Pricing for 3E Company's chemical and regulatory data management services is based on several factors, including the scope of the services rendered, breadth and depth of chemical and regulatory information, geographical reach, number of suppliers, etc. For more information, please call 800.360.3220.

About 3E Company
3E Company is the first company to provide a comprehensive suite of services for environmental, health and safety (EH&S) related chemical and hazardous materials information and compliance management that addresses the entire chemical lifecycle. This suite of services includes regulatory research; MSDS authoring, distribution and management; transportation; emergency response; training; regulatory reporting; and hazardous waste management. 3E has the industry leading combination of a 24-7-365 hazmat mission control call center, with an online platform for hazmat compliance information management, all built on a foundation of the world's premier hazardous substance database of global regulatory and compliance information. Its international, multi-lingual professional staff is composed of regulatory specialists, experienced product stewards, industrial hygienists, attorneys, chemists and chemical engineers, MSDS experts and EH&S systems consultants.

3E's services offer a cost effective program for global regulatory compliance management by alleviating the pain, managing risk, increasing the efficiency and enhancing staff productivity and enabling EH&S professionals to focus on more strategic functions. Today more than 7,000 customers have partnered with 3E including Costco Wholesale Corporation, America West, Eastman Chemical, Temple-Inland, Menasha and PacifiCorp. 3E was founded in 1988 and is the recipient of the 2002, 2003 and 2005 Commitment to Worker Safety Awards in Online and MSDS Services from Compliance Magazine, which also recognized 3E Online-MSDS in 2005 with an Award of Excellence for its Best of the Web Awards. The privately held company is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA with additional operations in Bethesda, MD, Kingsport, TN, and Copenhagen, Denmark. For more information on 3E Company, visit www.3ecompany.com, send e-mail to info@3ecompany.com or call 800-360-3220, 760-602-8700 or, in Europe, +45 70 22 81 70.