Both 3E Company and The Redstone Group bring unique regulatory knowledge and expertise to the partnership. Each company has dedicated significant resources and man-power to developing REACH-related services and solutions to ease the burden of the regulatory compliance for their customers. 3E Company, for example, has international chemical regulatory compliance experience to assist in multiple aspects of REACH implementation. As part of its REACH practice, 3E Company has incorporated REACH requirements and data into its existing suite of award-winning compliance and information management services and solutions, including Ariel EH&S Decision Support products, 3E Online – MSDS Management solutions, Ariel MSDS Authoring and Professional Services and the MSDgen software suite for MSDS and Label Authoring. Meanwhile, The Redstone Group has built an international technical team of regulatory experts, toxicologists and chemists with significant research and development and formulary implementation as well as international chemical regulatory compliance experience to assist in multiple aspects of REACH implementation. Redstone provides support in multiple phases of REACH implementation: pre-registration, registration and post registration.
Together, 3E Company and The Redstone Group will be able to offer customers:
- Comprehensive education and training, including regulatory content and process application;
- Strategic consulting, including REACH compliance preparation and the ability to conduct an initial assessment to define the role of manufacturers, importers and downstream users;
- Tools to assemble, structure and evaluate chemical inventories across multiple sites;
- Substance and mixture portfolio analysis;
- Third party representative services for companies registered in Europe
- Only representative services via partner firms;
- Consortia and Substance Information Exchange Fora (SIEF) representation
- MSDS authoring, including updating MSDSs according to REACH and GHS;
- Assistance in classifying and labeling substances according to GHS and other national regulations;
- Assistance with exposure scenarios and substitutions;
- Risk and exposure assessment of substances and/or products, including conducting a Chemical Safety Assessment and the preparation of the Chemical Safety Report;
- Preparation of the technical dossiers required for registration;
- Data review;
- And chemical substitution analysis.
"Over the past several months, we have noticed strong client and market demand for high quality professional services to facilitate compliance with REACH requirements," said Robert S. Christie, CEO and president, 3E Company. "In partnering with The Redstone Group, we will be able to provide our customers with the most comprehensive REACH solutions and services available today."
"REACH will fundamentally change the way chemicals are managed in Europe and possibly the rest of the world," said Glenn W. Hammer, founding principal, The Redstone Group "Partnering with 3E Company helps us to offer our customers a comprehensive array of services for achieving REACH compliance."
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, 2005 and 2006 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.
About The Redstone Group
The Redstone Group is a regulatory affairs and environmental risk management company. It focuses on assistance in management consulting, operational and compliance optimization, mergers and acquisitions, and project management. Redstone leverages extensive industry experience and broad network with a seasoned professional staff.
The Redstone Group, LLC was founded by two industry executives each with an excess of 30 years business experience in multiple technologies managing functional areas of engineering, manufacturing, business, regulatory, environmental and safety at the facility as well as corporate and executive levels. We are staffed by Senior Professionals with extensive industry experience in the areas of engineering, regulatory, chemistry, environmental, toxicology, safety, health and transportation. Our staffs are comfortable with global operations, having worked throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. Additionally we have extended networks to provide local expertise around the globe. This is combined with a foundation in business operations as well as corporate engineering and EHS program development, implementation and monitoring. We add value by integrating disciplines in multiple regulatory areas for optimal effectiveness to identify areas of risk, potential profitability and efficiency and provide cost effective solutions.