http://www.atrionintl.com/en/newsroom-and-resources/latest-news.html The latest news and updates from Atrion International. Atrion International Inc. founded in 1989, delivers the most reliable, product compliance solutions for multinational 'formula-based' companies. By integrating the largest set of Managed Regulatory Content into a prepackaged automated solution and connecting to key ERP systems, Atrion's Product Compliance Solution ensures that products will reach customers with minimal risks to brand image and shareholder value. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit RSS Feed Creator Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:54:26 -0400 Montreal, Canada – August 30, 2010 – Atrion International announced today the appointment of REACH authority Mark Blainey to the position of Senior Regulatory Analyst. In this role Blainey will join Atrion's team of highly distinguished regulatory experts and will provide policy and technical expertise to ensure Atrion's solutions offer continuous compliance with dynamic REACH regulations.http://www.atrionintl.com/en/newsroom-and-resources/338-pr-reach-blainey.htmlMon, 30 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400 Montreal, Canada –July 14, 2010 – Atrion International today announced its support of REACH Annex II Safety Data Sheets (SDS) with the release of its Intelligent Authoring (IA) version 4.2. The new version enables the creation of Extended Safety Data Sheet, supplemented with translated Exposure Scenarios in all European languages and SDS with the new required formats and content to support the Classification, Labeling and Packaging (CLP) Regulation.http://www.atrionintl.com/en/newsroom-and-resources/318-pr-reach-sds.htmlWed, 14 Jul 2010 14:22:34 -0400 Montreal, Canada – June 29, 2010 – Atrion International today announced that JACAM Industries has selected its Compliance Guardian for Microsoft Dynamics AX to ensure adherence to global regulations. Atrion's Compliance Guardian for Microsoft Dynamics AX is an out-of-the-box solution that provides product and raw material compliance assessment, document authoring and management, automated labeling, substance volume tracking and extensive reporting capabilities.http://www.atrionintl.com/en/newsroom-and-resources/315-pr-jacam-compliance.htmlTue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400 Montreal, Canada – May 12, 2010 – Atrion International announced today that Scott Harter, CIH, Senior Manager of Regulatory Services has been honored by PPG Industries for his extraordinary work, dedication, persistence and attention to detail on their Global Product Stewardship Initiative. The PPG EHS Gold Award is PPG's highest Environmental, Health, and Safety award and is presented in recognition of individuals who “go significantly above and beyond” and display outstanding achievements. Mr. Harter was the first external recipient of the award, which is typically reserved for employees of PPG.http://www.atrionintl.com/en/newsroom-and-resources/301-pr-ppg-ehs.htmlWed, 12 May 2010 08:32:04 -0400 Montreal, Canada –April 26th, 2010 – Atrion International today announced the general availability of Compliance Guardian for Microsoft Dynamics AX. Compliance Guardian is Powered by ACE™ to enable Microsoft Dynamics users to fully leverage Atrion's Product Compliance Solution and Managed Regulatory Content into their business processes to comply with global regulatory requirements at all stages of the product life cycle. The suite of products helps process and discrete manufacturers and distributors manage risks to brand equity and disruption of operations associated with the lack of accurate contextual product compliance information. http://www.atrionintl.com/en/newsroom-and-resources/300-pr-microsoft-product-compliance.htmlMon, 26 Apr 2010 09:16:14 -0400 Montreal, Canada –April 26, 2010 – Atrion International today announced that SiVance, a leading producer of silicon-based intermediates, has selected its Compliance Guardian for Microsoft Dynamics AX solution -- see today's related announcement “Atrion Introduces Product Compliance for Microsoft Dynamics AX at Convergence 2010 in Atlanta, GA”-- as the platform to drive their regulatory programs for products and raw materials. Atrion's Compliance Guardian for Microsoft Dynamics AX is an out-of-the-box solution that provides product and raw material compliance assessment, document authoring and management, automated labeling, substance volume tracking and extensive reporting capabilities.http://www.atrionintl.com/en/newsroom-and-resources/299-pr-sivance-compliance-guardian.htmlMon, 26 Apr 2010 09:14:57 -0400 Amsterdam, The Netherlands - April 14, 2010 -Today at the 13th annual Atrion User Group Meeting in Amsterdam, Atrion International unveiled “POE”, which is the code name for its new on-demand (SaaS) offering that cost-effectively automates the creation of globally compliant and multilingual Safety Data Sheets (SDS). A Powered by ACE™ solution, POE leverages Atrion's Managed Regulatory Content to reduce risks of non-compliance by generating SDSs that are based on the latest laws and regulations. Atrion's trusted and up-to-date Managed Regulatory Content consists of data on over 300,000 chemical substances, 15,000 regulatory phrases in over 44 languages, 7,500 proprietary rules, and 100 templates spanning 50 plus countries. POE enables SDS authors and EH&S staff around the world to easily access a secure and centralized web-based platform leveraging Atrion's renowned regulatory content for the generation of all SDSs, regardless of product or location of the user.http://www.atrionintl.com/en/newsroom-and-resources/298-atrion-previews-new-saas-application-for-authoring-multilingual-safety-data-sheets.htmlWed, 14 Apr 2010 09:09:51 -0400 Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA and Montreal, Quebec, Canada – March 1, 2010 – Actio Corporation and Atrion International today announced the availability of REACHtracker™ 2.0, a SaaS solution for automating and managing supply chain communication and substance information collection processes for compliance under Europe's REACH legislation. REACHtracker™ 2.0 provides a holistic substance view that integrates the relationships between finished products, raw materials and individual substances. http://www.atrionintl.com/en/pr-reach-supply-chainMon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Montreal, Canada - February 10, 2010 - Atrion International announced that it has signed an eight year agreement with Netherlands-based Thermphos International BV, a world leading chemical company in phosphorus, phosphoric acid, phosphorus derivatives, phosphates and phosphonates, for Atrion's Product Compliance for SAP EH&S. The Atrion solution will assist Thermphos in the regulatory analysis of complex product formulations and generate hazard communication documents such as the MSDS or SDS.http://www.atrionintl.com/en/thermphos-ehs-compliance.htmlWed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Webinar Date: February 24, 2010, 10:00 am EST The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has published a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM), to align their Hazard Communication Standard with the 3rd edition of the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS). Alignment with the GHS will result in significant changes impacting hazard communication in the US. In this session, the impacts on manufacturer's EH&S departments will be described and discussed.http://www.atrionintl.com/en/newsroom-and-resources/events/webinars.htmlFri, 29 Jan 2010 13:28:45 -0500 MONTREAL – Montreal-based Atrion International is taking the corporate green mantra to the international level. Atrion, which celebrated 20 years in business in 2009, works with more than 150 clients worldwide to ensure their products meet the legislative standards in the countries where they are made and where they are shipped. http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Taking+green+international+level/2453576/story.htmlMon, 18 Jan 2010 10:20:09 -0500 «J'adore les changements de réglementation!», s'exclame Patrick J. Lavoie, président et chef de la direction d'Atrion International. Comment un président d'entreprise peut-il tenir de tels propos, quand on sait quelle lourdeur administrative cela peut représenter? Dans le cas de M. Lavoie, la perspective est bien différente: plus il y a de changements à la réglementation, plus les affaires sont prospères.http://www.ledevoir.com/economie/actualites-economiques/281288/portrait-atrion-international-se-propage-sur-la-planete-verteMon, 18 Jan 2010 10:18:43 -0500 Montreal, Quebec, Canada, December 14th, 2009 – Atrion International today announced the availability of enhAnCE, a powerful content editor that provides users with a highly intuitive interface for augmenting and configuring specific content within the ACE Technology Platform. enhAnCE's simple user-friendly interface enables users with little or no computer programming skills to make their own changes to the behavior of parameters such as rules, phrases, and conditions. Version 1.0 of enhAnCE supports Atrion's Compliance Engine for EH&S, Powered by ACE for customers using SAP® EH&S. http://www.atrionintl.com/en/pr-121409-enhance-content-editorMon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Montreal, Canada – December 2, 2009 – Atrion International announced that it has signed a ten year agreement with Rotterdam-based Vopak, the world's largest independent tank terminal operator specializing in the storage and handling of liquid and gaseous chemical and oil products, for the deployment of a global product database. Atrion's team of environment, health and safety experts will develop a centralized process to collect and store chemical information, develop internal safety datasheets and create Workplace Safety Cards in local language as well as assist Vopak in rolling-out a global best practice approach for the handling of chemicals on their sites. http://www.atrionintl.com/en/newsroom-and-resources/282-pr-12-01-09-vopak-product-safety.htmlWed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Montreal, Canada and London - October 27, 2009 – Today at Convergence 2009 Europe, Atrion International announced that it is working together with Microsoft to help businesses design and distribute greener and safer products (see Microsoft Reveals the Power of Dynamic Business at Convergence 2009 Europe). Microsoft Dynamics AX and Atrion's Product Compliance Solution enable organizations to integrate product compliance into their business processes so that they can comply with emerging global regulatory requirements at all stages of the product life cycle and satisfy demands from customers and supply chain partners for greater transparency.http://www.atrionintl.com/en/pr-10-27-09-microsoft-atrion-green.htmlTue, 27 Oct 2009 10:30:00 -0400 Montreal, Quebec, Canada, September 8, 2009 - Atrion International launches ACE, the Company's new technology platform for product compliance that will now be at the core of its product and business development strategies. ACE will enable a wide spectrum of customers including Partners, Resellers and Clients to gain access to Atrion's 20 years of regulatory expertise in content development and achieve sustainable and scalable, corporate-wide product compliance across multiple ERP/PLM systems. http://www.atrionintl.com/en/ace-launch-prTue, 08 Sep 2009 07:50:14 -0400 Montreal, Quebec, Canada, July 14, 2009—Atrion International announces the addition of several new customers that have chosen Atrion over competing offerings, highlighting the increasing global demand for the Company's Product Compliance Suite (PCS), On-Demand solutions and Regulatory Services including Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). These companies—representing a cross-section of industries including Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals, Plastics and Resins—have selected to partner with Atrion...http://www.atrionintl.com/en/pr-140709-kluber-product-compliance-reach-ghsTue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 17, 2009— Atrion International launches the next generation of RegDBOnline™, a premiere online database for Environment, Health, Safety and Transport information. Designed for users involved in the implementation of GRC strategies, RegDBOnline simplifies the complexity of monitoring changing global regulations by providing a comprehensive, single-source database of up-to-date government and industry guidelines.http://www.atrionintl.com/en/trion-launches-new-generation-of-regdbonline-database.htmlWed, 17 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 20, 2009 — Atrion International announces the general availability of Intelligent Authoring's (IA) Service Pack 2 (SP2) with support for the EU's new Regulation on Classification, Labeling and Packaging (CLP) of substances and mixtures. The CLP Regulation—which came into force in January 2009—constitutes the European implementation of the UN's Globally Harmonized System (GHS) on classification and labeling of chemicals.http://www.atrionintl.com/en/atrion-first-to-deliver-support-for-eus-new-regulation.htmlWed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Montreal, Quebec, Canada, April 20, 2009—Atrion International continues to build on its success with mid-market and enterprise companies with the addition of several new customers including Teknos Group Oy, Dubois Chemicals, BG Products Inc., Kuwait Petroleum and Champion Technologies. These customers have chosen Atrion's Product Compliance Suite (PCS) to efficiently address REACH and GHS regulatory compliance demands without the need for heavy investments in ...http://www.atrionintl.com/en/pr-mid-market.htmlMon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Montreal, Quebec, Canada, March 30, 2009—Atrion International announces that it has augmented its product development, regulatory services and marketing staff by 20% during the first quarter of FY-09. This is as a result of a consistent double-digit growth rate of its enterprise and mid-market customer base. Atrion is accommodating a majority of this staff growth in its recently expanded Worldwide Headquarters with the addition of a second location at 4929 Place Olivia, Ville Saint-Laurent, Quebec. http://www.atrionintl.com/en/pr-growth.htmlMon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Montreal, Quebec, Canada, March 18, 2009—Atrion International announces that its Product Compliance Solution continues to fully support the Globally Harmonized System (GHS). The solution automates the creation of globally compliant and multi-lingual MSDS/SDS, labels, hazard summary sheets as well as documents related to transportation, inventory reports and more. The solutions' key features enable global chemical formulators and manufacturers to produce GHS-compliant documents ...http://www.atrionintl.com/en/ghs-transition-for-chemical-manufacturers.htmlWed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400 NEW ORLEANS, LA (March 9, 2009) Today at Convergence 2009, Fullscope, Inc., a Gold Certified Microsoft Business Solutions Partner, announced its latest strategy to extend industry-specific technology offerings to process manufacturers including food and beverage, non-durable consumer packaged goods, chemicals and pharmaceutical/life sciences companies. The company's ...http://www.atrionintl.com/en/fullscope-announces-process-industries.htmlMon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Montreal, Quebec, January 12, 2009—Atrion International announces the availability of Intelligent Authoring (IA) release 4.1 - part of the Atrion Product Compliance Solution. The new version features significant new updates to its Managed Regulatory Content to facilitate localized regulatory compliance for formula-based companies. Additions include localized GHS support for Taiwan, Thailand and New Zealand, as well as significant regulation updates specific to the Paint & Coatings and Flavors & Fragrances industries.http://www.atrionintl.com/en/newsroom-and-resources/157-pr-011209-intelligent-authoring-content.htmlMon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Montreal, Quebec, December 15, 2008 - Atrion International, a leading provider of Product Compliance Solutions, announces that it has joined the IFS Global Software Partner Program. Under the terms of the partnership agreement, Atrion's Product Compliance solution can be integrated with IFS Applications to provide IFS customers with dynamic regulatory content, software applications, and services that automate and streamline product compliance across the entire Product Life Cycle.http://www.atrionintl.com/en/newsroom-and-resources/192-pr-121508-ifs-product-life-cycle.htmlMon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0400 TEMPE, Arizona and Montreal, Quebec. – October 8th, 2008 – ESS, the leading provider of Environmental, Health and Safety (EH&S) and Crisis Management software for enterprise sustainability, and Atrion International, a leading provider of product compliance solutions, jointly announced a strategic partnership today. The newly formed partnership will extend both ESS' and Atrion's software offerings in order to address product and REACH compliance goals in a more comprehensive and cost efficient manner.http://www.atrionintl.com/en/newsroom-and-resources/193-pr-100808-ess-hazardous-substance-reporting.htmlWed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Montreal, Quebec, June 25th, 2008 — Atrion International, Inc., announces new contracts for its Regulatory Analysis Solution (RAS™) with three key North American and European Food and Beverage organizations, including Manheimer (member of Kerry Group), Cargill Flavor Systems and A.M Todd. RAS™ is an automated regulatory compliance application that has been specifically designed to integrate with Infor's Optiva Product Lifecycle Management solution. The combined...http://www.atrionintl.com/en/newsroom-and-resources/194-pr-062508-food-beverage-regulatory-analysis-solution.htmlWed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Montreal, Quebec, May 7th, 2008 — Atrion International, Inc., announced today the successful completion of its REACHexchange® beta testing program with seven large multinational clients (including DSM and Akzo Nobel). The results of the beta testing validated the ease-of-use and practicality of REACHexchange's® bidirectional exchange of data between Atrion's Intelligent Authoring (IA) application and local instances of a company's IUCLID 5 system—the tool for registering...http://www.atrionintl.com/en/newsroom-and-resources/195-pr-050708-reach-compliance-solution.htmlWed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Boston, Massachusetts, April 24, 2008 — Actio, in partnership with Atrion International, today announced the availability of REACHtracker™, a SaaS solution for managing supply chain communication and substance inventory for pre-registration and registration obligations under Europe's new REACH legislation. REACHtracker™ enables companies to initiate supply chain cooperation by leveraging structured e-mail communications and secure on-line questionnaires that facilitate the otherwise ...http://www.atrionintl.com/en/newsroom-and-resources/196-pr-042408-reach-management.htmlThu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Montreal, Canada, December 7, 2007 — Atrion International announces the availability of an integrated (M)SDS archiving and management solution using a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, through its partnership with Actio Corporation. To maintain a technological cutting edge, Atrion is investing great efforts in the adoption of SaaS as a method of delivery for its industry-leading regulatory compliance solutions.http://www.atrionintl.com/en/newsroom-and-resources/197-pr-120707-chemical-saas-solution.htmlFri, 07 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0400 Montreal, Canada, September 17, 2007— Atrion today announced that it has hosted yet another successful International User Group Conference — the largest in company history. Last week in Montreal, at the Marriott Chateau Champlain, over 90 customers assembled to hear Atrion's management, staff and experts present information on corporate vision and mission, the future of REACH and its implications on their business as well as product roadmaps, new features and improvements. http://www.atrionintl.com/en/newsroom-and-resources/198-pr-091707-user-group-conference.htmlMon, 17 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0400 Montreal, Quebec, August 20, 2007 — Atrion International - the leading provider of solutions enabling compliance of regulated and hazardous materials - today announced that PPG Industries has signed a multi-year contract for Atrion's Materials Compliance solution, which becomes a technology backbone of their Global Product Stewardship (GPS) system. The GPS system will consolidate and standardize environment, health and safety (EH&S) data about products as well as the procedures...http://www.atrionintl.com/en/newsroom-and-resources/199-pr-082007-ppg-global-product-stewardship.htmlMon, 20 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0400 August 15, 2007 — Development of a bi-directional interface between IUCLID5 (International Uniform Chemical Information Database) and Atrion's Materials Compliance Suite Intelligent Authoring and Compliance Suite for EH&S platforms has begun. At their upcoming International User Group meeting, September 13-15, 2007--Atrion will present a proof-of -concept to establish the viability and highlight potential options in development. http://www.atrionintl.com/en/newsroom-and-resources/200-pr-081507-iuclid-5.htmlWed, 15 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0400 Montreal, Quebec – July 18, 2007 — Atrion International announces the release of Intelligent Authoring for REACH—an automated solution that updates Safety Data Sheets for REACH compliance and assists companies in identifying chemical substances that need to be registered or—alternatively—screens products that are exempt from REACH registration. Atrion is the leading developer of solutions combining regulatory expertise and industry-leading technology. http://www.atrionintl.com/en/newsroom-and-resources/201-pr-071807-intelligent-authoring-reach-compliance.htmlWed, 18 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0400 Montreal, Quebec – June 4, 2007 — Atrion International — the leading provider of solutions enabling compliance of regulated and hazardous materials—today announced the signing of a multi-year contract with Flint Group to implement a materials compliance solution enabling Flint Group to safely and cost-effectively manage its global hazard communication process. http://www.atrionintl.com/en/newsroom-and-resources/202-pr-060407-materials-compliance-suite.htmlMon, 04 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0400 Montreal, Quebec and Portsmouth, NH – April 17, 2007 – Atrion International and Actio Corporation have partnered to offer a Chemical Management Solution (CMS) – a comprehensive, web-delivered solution for pre-screening and managing chemical information and inbound (M) SDS across the supply chain. CMS links all stages of the chemical lifecycle, thereby reducing chemical handling and purchasing costs, while providing mission-critical product information throughout the enterprise. http://www.atrionintl.com/en/newsroom-and-resources/203-pr-041707-chemical-management.htmlTue, 17 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0400 Montreal, Quebec, March 7, 2007 – Atrion International, the leading developer of solutions combining regulatory expertise and industry-leading technology is offering an integrated solution for REACH compliance. Atrion has announced that their product, Intelligent Authoring version 3.5 will be released end-March 2007, thereby addressing immediate changes and updates required by REACH on June 1, 2007...http://www.atrionintl.com/en/newsroom-and-resources/204-pr-030707-reach-compliance.htmlWed, 07 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0400 Montreal, Quebec, March 6, 2007 – Atrion International, the leading developer of solutions combining regulatory expertise and industry-leading technology today announced an accelerated strategy to offer customers a single-source solution enabling compliance of regulated and hazardous materials. Atrion's recent acquisition of Kemika XXI, a well-known supplier of regulatory compliance services for chemical management, will enhance its scope of global service offerings and enable expansion to new markets. http://www.atrionintl.com/en/newsroom-and-resources/205-pr-030607-global-regulatory-services-kemika.htmlTue, 06 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0400 Montreal, Quebec, February 14, 2007 – Atrion International, the leading developer of solutions combining regulatory expertise and industry-leading technology today announced a further step toward this year's accelerated strategy of offering customers a single source solution enabling compliance of regulated and hazardous materials. http://www.atrionintl.com/en/newsroom-and-resources/206-pr-021407-atrion-expansion-asia-pacific.htmlWed, 14 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0400 Atrion International has launched http://www.reachlegislation.com, a new, informative web-portal covering REACH-related topics and offering in-depth viewpoints on the proposed, new European Chemical framework–REACH (Registration,...http://www.atrionintl.com/en/newsroom-and-resources/207-pr-090506-reach-legislation.htmlTue, 05 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0400