Advanced redundant power technology, featuring multiple power inputs with redundant function, Vecow ECS-4500 Series slim embedded system makes more reliable all-in-one integrated solution possible for Machine Vision, Smart Manufacturing, Factory Automation, Intelligent Surveillance, Vehicle Computing, Intelligent Control, Deep Learning or any Industry 4.0/IIoT applications.
China makes progress on RoHS2 with the publishing of drafts for “Compliance Management Catalog for the Restriction of the Use of Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Products (1st batch)” and the “Exemption list”.
The technical panel for Intrinsic Safe Apparatus used in hazardous locations has cancelled the timeline for manufacturers to comply with the 5th edition of UL 913. This decision was announced on August 1, 2017.
The US FCC has issued proposals to combine the current ‘Verification’ and ‘Declaration of Conformity’ self-approval procedures into the ‘Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity’.
Plastic tubing manufacturer NewAge Industries announces that it is now a zero-waste facility. Waste is recycled, reused or disposed of through an energy-from-waste (EfW) system. The company has made sustainability a focus in recent years and determined that achieving landfill-free status was an important part of its green initiatives.
Battery manufacturers supplying India must be registered to IS 16046:2015 after August 31, 2017. Until this date both IS 16046:2012 and IS 16046:2015 will be accepted.
In September 2016, two new standards, AS/NZS 1067.1:2016 and AS/NZS 1067.2:2016, were published to specify minimum requirements for sunglasses, fashion spectacles and replacement filters that are nominally afocal (plano power) providing protection against solar radiation.
Turkey has added new restrictions on chromium VI and DOT in addition to the current phthalates requirement in imported footwear. The new rules came into effect in July 2017.
Mack will also join the company's Board of Directors. Mr. Mack had been acting as the Company's Interim President and Chief Executive Officer since April.
SGS Art Services has worked with art historians and conservators at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York on a study of a Kru Mask from Ivory Coast.
ProAmpac won First Place in the Flexible Packaging Flexo Print Process category and also Best of Show from among 200 entries in the 31st packagePRINTING Excellence Awards.
After two years of conservative minimum wage increases, China is reporting eleven provinces have so far increased minimum wages levels in 2017, by an average of 9%.
China has introduced its first national product standard for woven garments for infants. The standard, GB/T 33271-2016 was implemented on July 1, 2017.
China has published the revised version of its national standard for shirts and blouses - GB/T 2660. The new version, GB/T 2660-2017, will be implemented on December 1, 2017.
European Commission (EC) Regulation (EU) 2017/1224 tighten the permitted limit for METHYLISOTHIAZOLINONE (MIT), CAS No. 2682-20-4, in rinse-off cosmetic products.
Environmental protection tops the agenda as the Government of Canada bans the use of microbeads in toiletries in order to reduce the volume of plastic microbeads entering freshwater and marine ecosystems.
Lab Testing welcomes new employee, John Stango, to the family-run company as Inside Sales Manager. He joins the metal testing and calibration lab with over ten years of supervisory experience in the medical industry.
We recently had a couple water treatment facilities start using TREDS and wanted to make sure others across the county got a chance to try them and test them in their facilities!
Several Prop 65 settlements have been reached concerning lead in consumer products. The agreements require reformulation and/or the use of Prop 65 warning label.
Since the fourth quarter of 2016, there have been a number of Prop 65 settlements involving phthalates, some of which allow a Prop 65 warning label as an alternative.