3E Company® is the leading provider of environmental health and safety (EH&S) compliance and information management services. SOCMA is the leading trade association for the specialty, custom and batch chemical industry.
The partnership's new phase will launch with 3E Company's participation in SOCMA's ChemStewards Spring 2008 EHS&S Regional Roundtables. 3E Company's specialized team of experts will also contribute to the ChemStewards e-newsletter and Web site to further promote awareness of product stewardship and regulatory compliance issues of critical concern to SOCMA members. Additionally, 3E Company and SOCMA's ChemStewards will jointly explore developing special programs, solutions and offerings for the unique needs of SOCMA's membership.
SOCMA is expanding its partnership with 3E Company to take advantage of the Company's position as a thought leader in the EH&S issues facing chemical manufacturers and users today, especially in Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) and regulatory data management, Globally Harmonized System for Classification & Labeling (GHS) and REACH. These topics will be discussed during the ChemStewards Spring 2008 EHS&S Regional Roundtables, which provide guidance on how to promote product stewardship throughout the supply chain while boosting the bottom line through process improvements.
"We are very pleased to expand our partnership with 3E Company," said Jennifer Abril, Director, SOCMA ChemStewards®. "Our membership will benefit from 3E Company's status as an industry resource for product stewardship programs and services. We look forward to collaborating with 3E Company in developing relevant programs to further support our members' needs."
"Partnering with SOCMA makes sense because of our common mission to strengthen product lifecycle regulatory data management," said Jeffrey Starr, Vice President of Marketing, 3E Company. "We look forward to working with SOCMA to help chemical manufacturers and users manage the data complexities of product stewardship and EH&S compliance management."
SOCMA's EHS&S Spring 2008 Regional Roundtables occurred on:
- May 20, 2008 in Houston, TX (Southern Region)
- May 22, 2008 in Charlotte, NC (Carolinas Region)
Additional meetings are planned for:
- May 29, 2008 in Wayne, NJ (Northeast Region)
- June 5, 2008 in Columbus, OH (Ohio Valley Region)
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, Massillon, OH, Kingsport, TN, Montreal, Quebec 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 SOCMA
The Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association (SOCMA) is the leading trade association serving the specialty-batch and custom chemical industry. Its almost 300 member companies operate more than 2,000 manufacturing sites and have 100,000 employees. SOCMA members encompass every segment of the industry and manufacture 50,000 products annually that are valued at $60 billion dollars.
SOCMA's ChemStewards® program is the only environmental, health, safety and security (EHS&S) program designed specifically for the unique requirements of the batch, custom and specialty chemical industry. It provides guidance that helps ensure compliance with federal laws and regulations and boosts participants' bottom lines by improving processes and identifying inefficiencies.
Since 1921, SOCMA has identified legislative and regulatory issues affecting small and medium-size specialty and batch chemical companies. Member companies actively participate in committees to shape the positions and guide the actions of SOCMA. SOCMA advocates flexible policies grounded in sound science to influence the development of legislation on Capitol Hill as well as federal rules and programs at regulatory agencies.