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3E Company Enhances Award-Winning Ariel WebInsight Regulatory Compliance Tool to Further Promote Global Chemical Regulatory Compliance Management
Ariel WebInsight version 5.0 delivers powerful new search capabilities and an upgraded user interface to expedite global chemical regulatory research

Friday, November 16, 2007 — 3E Company®, the leading provider of Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) compliance and information management services, today introduced Ariel WebInsight 5.0, an innovative new version of its premier online regulatory compliance reference tool. WebInsight 5.0 prominently features a new Web user interface that has been enhanced and expanded to enable more-intuitive customer interaction. The new version of the award-winning regulatory compliance tool further strengthens the company's leadership of the chemical regulatory compliance space.

WebInsight 5.0's redesigned user interface facilitates easier customer access to Ariel's accurate, comprehensive, up-to-date, usable regulatory information, which spans more than 60 countries around the world and includes more than 800 regulatory lists. This powerful new version offers customers exciting new features and functionality such as sophisticated search capabilities powered by Google, easy to download reports and single click access to chemical searches and relevant news. These new features make it even easier for customers to find the relevant regulatory compliance requirements.

WebInsight 5.0 brings multilingual phrase searches to the global product stewardship community. This unique new module allows users to conduct multilingual searches for a Material Safety Data Sheets' (MSDS) header, sub-header and risk and safety phrases in more than 30 languages. These new phrases reflect 3E Company's ongoing leadership in providing solutions for meeting the growing international and multilingual research requirements of its global customer base.
  • New home page functionality. A redesigned and enhanced home page offers multiple chemical search functions, as well as single click access to reports, news, alerts and update notes.
  • Enhanced searching capabilities. Google-powered search functionality and a superior search and reports interface enable easier, more intuitive navigation.
  • Customization. Customizable regulatory selections and chemical reports ensure faster access to pertinent information.
"The introduction of WebInsight 5.0 represents 3E's continuing commitment to providing our customers with the most innovative and user-friendly EH&S regulatory content available today," said Robert S. Christie, CEO and president, 3E Company. "This new version strengthens our market leadership position in the chemical regulatory content arena."

"Comprehensive, centralized global regulatory information is a critical component of EH&S compliance," said Julia Tsvetkova, product manager, 3E Company. "With this innovative new release, we're offering WebInsight customers even more powerful access to comprehensive compliance information on regulated chemicals throughout the world. This unparalleled functionality and regulatory coverage bolsters our customers' EH&S compliance efforts and helps them ensure product and facility compliance around the globe."

Ariel WebInsight 5.0 will be available on December 2, 2007 at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. There is no charge for existing customers to upgrade to WebInsight version 5.0. Pricing for new customers is based on the number of licensed users and modules selected.

WebInsight 5.0's exciting new features will be demonstrated in a series of Web seminars. Dates and times are as follows: November 19, 2007 at 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time (5:00 PM Central European Time); November 21, 2007 at 9:00 AM Eastern Standard Time (3:00 PM Central European Time); and November 27, 2007 at 10:00 AM Tokyo, Japan Time (12:00 PM Sydney, Australia Time). Members of the press and analyst community should contact Jenny Bingham at jenny.bingham@gmail.com to register.

About 3E Company
Founded in 1988, 3E Company is the first company to provide a comprehensive suite of chemical, regulatory and compliance information services that addresses the entire lifecycle of a chemical, covering global regulatory data; MSDS authoring, distribution and management; transportation; emergency response; training; regulatory reporting; and waste management. 3E has the industry leading combination of a 24-7-365 HazMat Mission Control Center, and 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. To date, more than 7,000 customers have partnered with 3E, including Costco Wholesale Corporation, America West, Eastman Chemical, Temple-Inland, Menasha and PacifiCorp. 3E is the recipient of the 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007 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 Company also received a 2006 Business Achievement Award from Environmental Business Journal. The privately held company is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA with additional operations in Bethesda, MD, Kingsport, TN, Massillon, OH, Montreal, Canada 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.