Optical Device Manufacturers: Await for the Approval for RoHS2 Exemptions Renewal Request
Product manufacturers have a huge responsibility of making a renewal request for the RoHS Exemptions that do not contain expiry date, as those exemptions will expire on 21 July 2016 and subsequently fall under the RoHS non-compliant category. Manufacturers who have to use the RoHS2 exempted substances to produce their end product even after the […]
REACH Candidate List updated with 2 new SVHCs
The 13th revision of the REACH Candidate List (CL) has now been published by European Chemical Agency (ECHA) with the addition of two substances on 15, June 2015. ECHA included these two substances to the CL based on the proposals from Member States, Sweden and Netherlands respectively. ECHA conducted the SVHC identification process with involvement […]
2 Potential SVHCs for REACH Candidate list, June 2015
The 13th version of the REACH Candidate List (CL) is expected to be published in June 2015 with more additions. Since suppliers or product manufacturers are continuously monitoring the CL to keep their product in compliance with REACH, it’s always good to know the Substances of Very High Concern (SVHCs) earlier to start the proceedings. […]
CMRT 4.01a Released, with modified Smelter Reference List to remove errors!
Further to our earlier piece on CMRT v4.0 (Refer the 2nd half of this article), we now share with you the changes made on CMRT v4.01a. With ongoing feedback and several inputs from the suppliers and manufacturers, CFSI has now come up with CMRT v4.01a as on August 6, 2015, which supersedes all the older […]
Conflict Minerals Filing for Healthcare Manufacturers: 2014 Review & 2015 Recommendations
With a clear objective to strengthen the Health care filings for 2015 and to help healthcare companies to meet the requirements of Section 1502, led us to analyze 2014 filings. We used sample data from 409 Health care companies, registered with the SEC. Registrants of Health Care sector: We initially broke the filings down by […]
It’s time to update your SDS for REACH
1st June 2015 is the deadline for manufacturers to update all their MSDS to SDS and today, just a few days away from the deadline, we thought it would be useful to share some our thoughts about the importance of SDS in REACH and the need for its updation. SDS and its importance in REACH […]