Environment
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TIA supports market-driven environmental and energy-saving initiatives. TIA owns EIATRACK, a global benchmark in environmental intelligence and product-oriented regulatory tracking.
EIATRACK Brochure
- This new brochure explains what EIATRACK is, and why it's the go-to source for tracking environmental regulations affecting manufacturers the world over.
TIA Environment White Papers
Four papers detailing how to ensure delivery of products in line with environmental requirements in four major markets are now available from TIA. The papers follow. Read the press release, TIA Issues White Papers to Educate Manufacturers on Green Regulations.
- Asia
- Latin America
How to ensure your Products Meet Environmental Requirements in Latin America (PDF, 199kb) - North America
How to ensure your Products Meet Environmental Requirements in North America (PDF, 199kb) - Europe
What is EIATRACK?
EIATRACK is the essential business tool for global companies working across borders, jurisdictions and countries. At a time when environmental sustainability and business profitability goals have merged, TIA offers companies a way to strategize for their future growth and environmentally conscious initiatives in new markets.
TIA's EIATRACK systematically tracks, analyzes and reports on product-oriented environmental legislation in Europe, Asia Pacific, North America and South America, providing companies a cost effective “early-warning system” for monitoring and evaluating product-related measures.
Highlights include:
- Key product compliance issues such as Take-back, Batteries, Restricted Substances, Design for Environment and Packaging
- More than 1,500 pieces of legislation tracked from proposal through implementation
- Coverage in all major regions of Europe, Asia Pacific, North America and South America
- Accurate, up-to-date content provided by a wide range of internationally-based legal and technical subject-matter experts.
- WEEE and RoHS expertise in Europe and other jurisdictions
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How does it work?
TIA's EIATRACK is underpinned by a world-class group of legal and technical experts and specialists cutting across the disciplines of law, environmental policy and science. Collaborative, globally networked, yet practically grounded, the EIATRACK team is unmatched in terms of experience and commitment.
Subscribers receive timely information and unparalleled customer service through regulatory alerts, bulletins, special reports, quarterly newsletters, a comprehensive Q&A service, webinars and interactive reports.
How much does it cost?
EIATRACK offers three key options to suit your budget and requirements:
- Standard (Annual revenue more than US $750 million)
- Medium (Annual revenue from US $300-750 million)
- Small (Annual revenue less than US $300 million)
Find out more! Visit www.eiatrack.com or contact Andrew Kurtzman at akurtzman@tiaonline.org.
What are users saying about EIATRACK?
Looking after environmental compliance at my company is not my full time job so I don't have time to search around the internet for developments in legislation. I find the regular emails I get from EIATRACK excellent for keeping me up to date with this and the layout of the emails means I can instantly access the information that is useful to me without having to read through things that aren't. I would thoroughly recommend the website.
Matthew Huntley
Material and Environmental Engineer, Nokia
EIATRACK is a useful and reliable tool for the identification of relevant legal requirements and regulatory trends. It helps to ensure compliance and to avoid business risks.
Friedrich Koch
Environmental Consultant, Seimens AG
EIATRACK represents an information resource. It has enabled Sony to successfully streamline the tracking of environmental product requirements.
Serge Foucher
Executive Vice President and Compliance Officer, Sony Europe
The new, enhanced version of EIATRACK fills a major information gap and makes product compliance across Europe far less complicated, for production sites within Europe as well as overseas.
Mr. Wilfried Oppermann
Head of European Environmental Affairs, Matsushita Electric Europe
There is no way we could obtain this level of information ourselves for the subscription price. The service is a bargain.
Hewlett-Packard Rep
Who subscribes? A sample of EIATRACK subscribers is listed:
- Affymetrix
- Agere
- AMD
- Apple
- Avaya
- Belden
- Belkin
- Boeing
- Bose
- Canon
- Celestica
- Cisco
- Dell
- Epson
- Ericsson
- Flextronics
- Harris
- HP
- IBM
- Intel
- JVC
- Kodak
- Lexmark
- LG
- Microsoft
- Mitsubishi
- Motorola
- Nokia Siemens
- Panasonic
- Philips
- Pitney Bowes
- Proctor and Gamble
- Quantum
- Radio Shack
- Ricoh
- Samsung
- SanDisk
- Sanyo
- Sharp
- Sony
- Sun
- Tektronix
- Teradyne
- Texas Instruments
- Toshiba
- Unisys
- United Technologies
EIATRACK Regulatory Alerts
EIATRACK regularly publishes notifications of important updates, known as "Regulatory Alerts" to subscribing members. Click on a headline to ready about one of the recent Regulatory Alerts, or visit the EIATRACK website for more information.
New EIATRACK Regulatory Alerts
- Subject Reports Update - USA New England States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont
- European Chemicals Agency releases guidance on substances in articles in nutshell format
- Oregon Expands Ban On Flame Retardants To Include Deca-BDE
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