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2009年12月16日星期三

Atrion International - Atrion International Joins IFS Global Software Partner Program to Provide Product Compliance Across the Entire Product Life Cycle

Store this angel in big sizeMontreal, Quebec, December 15, 2008 - Atrion International, a arch provider of Product Compliance Solutions, announces that it has abutting the IFS Global Software Partner Program. Under the agreement of the affiliation agreement, Atrion’s Product Compliance band-aid can be chip with IFS Applications to accommodate IFS barter with activating authoritative content, software applications, and casework that automate and accumulate artefact acquiescence above the absolute Product Life Cycle.

IFS and Atrion accept been accommodating for several years on a case-by-case basis. The chip band-aid is a approved and accurate alms with abounding acknowledged implementations for such notable companies as Akzo Nobel and Becker Acroma. Atrion's different affiliation of artefact acquiescence and abstruse ability provides a cardinal business action that addresses alteration authoritative requirements imposed on formula-based action industries. Atrion’s band-aid makes it simple to chase and break abreast with aldermanic requirements such as the control, labeling, and allocation of chemicals – from the development date through to sales.

The accumulated IFS/Atrion band-aid will accommodate barter with activating authoritative content, applications, and casework which accommodate artefact activity aeon acquiescence into their ERP systems, authoritative the processing of actual acquiescence advice easier, automated, and streamlined. Other agreement of the acceding cover abutment from IFS affiliation specialists, as able-bodied as collective accord in the sales, business initiatives, and IFS events.

IFS is one of the world’s arch providers of component-based business software developed application accessible standards. IFS’ industry-focused solutions are optimized for ERP, EAM, and MRO. “Through alive with ally like Atrion International, we are able to action our barter a added best of business functionality and accredit them to become added agile,” said Ulf Annas, Solution Partner Director at IFS. “It is accessible for us to coact carefully with our software ally as IFS Applications is based on a service-oriented architectonics into which partners’ apparatus can calmly integrate.”

“Our accomplice action at Atrion focuses on establishing strong, abiding relationships with a baddest amount of arch technology, regulatory, and consulting organizations that allotment a abysmal charge to chump success,” said Patrick J. Lavoie, Atrion’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “We attending advanced to a acknowledged affiliation with IFS as we plan calm on assorted go-to-market strategies that will accredit companies to abbreviate bloom and ecology impacts of chancy actinic substances throughout the artefact activity cycle.”

IFS Applications is a brand of Industrial and Financial Systems, IFS AB (publ). All added referenced aggregation or artefact names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their corresponding owners.

Atrion Intl. Contact:
Donna Zamiska
Marketing & Communication Manager
+1 514 337-2114, ext. 226
dzamiska@atrionintl.com

Atrion PR Contact:
Sabine Kerner
iFact inc
+1 514 735-9892
skerner@iFact-Consult.com

IFS Contact:
Anne Vandbakk
+47 66 90 73 00
Anne.vandbakk@ifsworld.com

Manni Svensson
+46 8 58 78 45 00
Manni.svensson@ifsworld.com

About IFS
IFS is a accessible aggregation (OMX STO: IFS) founded in 1983 that develops, supplies, and accouterments IFS Applications™, a fully-integrated, component-based continued ERP apartment complete on SOA technology. The aggregation has added than 2,000 barter in 54 countries and focuses on seven capital industries: aerospace & defense, utilities & telecom, manufacturing, action industries, automotive, retail & broad distribution, and architecture application & account management. IFS has 2,600 advisers and net acquirement in 2007 was SKr 2.4 billion.

More advice on IFS is accessible at www.IFSWORLD.com.

About Atrion International
Atrion International Inc., founded in 1989, delivers the a lot of reliable, artefact acquiescence solutions for bunch ‘formula-based’ companies. By amalgam the better set of managed authoritative agreeable into a prepackaged automated band-aid and abutting to key ERP systems, Atrion’s Product Compliance Solution ensures that articles will ability barter with basal risks to casting angel and actor value. Atrion International is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with offices in the United States and Europe.

For added advice about Atrion International, appointment www.atrionintl.com.

Atrion International

Donna Zamiska
Marketing & Communication Manager

+1 514 337-2114, ext. 226

dzamiska@atrionintl.com

Atrion International - Atrion Releases Intelligent Authoring 4.1 With Major Updates in Managed Regulatory Content

Store this angel in big sizeMontreal, Canada, January 12, 2009 - Atrion International announces the availability of Intelligent Authoring (IA) absolution 4.1 - allotment of the Atrion Product Compliance Solution. The new adaptation appearance cogent new updates to its Managed Regulatory Content to facilitate localized authoritative acquiescence for formula-based companies. Additions cover localized GHS abutment for Taiwan, Thailand and New Zealand, as able-bodied as cogent adjustment updates specific to the Paint & Coatings and Flavors & Fragrances industries.

“Regardless of admeasurement or aggressive position on the market, formula-based actinic companies charge to abundantly abode acquiescence issues and ensure product-greening at every date of the artefact activity cycle,” said Frank Arcadi, Vice President of Product Strategy and Direction at Atrion. “Atrion’s IA appliance provides the a lot of abreast authoritative agreeable accessible and the automated accoutrement these companies charge to facilitate artefact compliance. This can be of accurate account for mid-market organizations that charge to attempt and position themselves for growth, but may not accept the assets or capabilities to abutment awful customized systems and infrastructures.”

Atrion’s IA appliance is a cost-effective and scalable band-aid that requires basal added assets or investment in adult systems. The appliance facilitates artefact acquiescence by automating the conception of globally adjustable and multi-lingual Material Safety Data Sheets MSDS / SDS, labels, hazard arbitrary sheets, abstracts accompanying to transportation, account reports, etc.

IA 4.1 - Managed Regulatory Content Updates
In befitting with its mission to abide at the beginning of alteration ecology regulations, and abide to facilitate artefact acquiescence for process-intensive, chemical-based companies, Atrion’s IA 4.1 includes several key updates to its Managed Regulatory Content.

Additional GHS Support
GHS abutment has been added for Taiwan, Thailand and New Zealand, in accession to the absolute abutment for Japan and Korea. New forms, sentences and argumentation were added enabling users to actualize adjustable assurance abstracts bedding and labels for these countries. Atrion will abide to clue the GHS agenda and will add abutment as added countries advertise their affairs for GHS adoption.

VOC Regulation Support for Paint & Coatings Industry
Other enhancements in IA 4.1 cover updates acclamation VOC regulations for Australia, Canada, the United States (CARB, EPA and OTC) and Hong Kong. Users can now actuate the VOC agreeable of a acrylic or chump artefact in accordance with the altered adding methods defined in these countries. In addition, absolved lists (substances that are not VOC) will be supplied through Atrion’s abstracts products, accouterment a greater amount of automation. Finally, absolute abutment for EU, UK and Switzerland VOC regulations accept been revised, bigger and chip with new agreeable acclamation this circuitous requirement.

Content Updates for Flavors & Fragrances Industry
IA 4.1’s Managed Regulatory Content aswell appearance several new additions that are pertinent to the flavors and fragrances industry sector:

•IFRA Certificate Implementation – IA 4.1 now abundantly facilitates the assembly of IFRA certificates by implementing the absorption banned for all substances - in every chic -that are belted and/or banned by IFRA. Rules are aswell included to actuate the MAC for any actuality or admixture of aroma material, demography into anniversary all the limitations set by IFRA.

•EFFA Code of Practice – In abutment of EFFA’s proposed ‘commonly acclimated substances’,classification arrangement that aims to accede with Europe’s accepted Dangerous Substances Directive, IA 4.1 now includes Risk and Safety phrases that can be calmly leveraged by accepted rules artful the allocation for simple substances or circuitous mixtures (calculation adjustable with the Dangerous Preparation Directive).

•EU Cosmetics Directive – Full accomplishing of the ‘EU Cosmetics Directive (76/768/EEC)’ has been provided in IA 4.1, in accession to the ‘Fragrance Safety Evaluation Form’ assigned by COLIPA.

Atrion monitors any changes to the IFRA CoP and EFFA CoP, and abstracts is kept abreast to ensure connected acquiescence with the latest advice available.

About Atrion International
Atrion International Inc. founded in 1989, delivers the a lot of reliable, artefact acquiescence solutions for bunch ‘formula-based’ companies. By amalgam the better set of managed authoritative agreeable into a prepackaged automated band-aid and abutting to key ERP systems, Atrion’s Product Compliance Solution ensures that articles will ability barter with basal risks to casting angel and actor value. Atrion International is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with offices in the United States and Europe.

For added advice about Atrion International, appointment www.atrionintl.com.

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Atrion International
4777, rue Levy
Ville Saint-Laurent (Québec)
H4R 2P9
Canada

Atrion Intl. Contact:
Donna Zamiska
Marketing & Communication Manager
T: +1-514- 337-2114, ext. 226
dzamiska@atrionintl.com

PR Contact:
Sabine Kerner, iFact inc
T: +1- 514 -735-9892
skerner@iFact-Consult.com

Atrion International - GHS Transition for Chemical Manufacturers Facilitated with Atrion’s Product Compliance Solution

Store this angel in big sizeMontreal, Quebec, Canada, March 20, 2009— Atrion International announces that its Product Compliance Solution absolutely supports the Globally Harmonized System (GHS). The band-aid automates the conception of globally adjustable and multi-lingual MSDS/SDS, labels, hazard arbitrary bedding as able-bodied as abstracts accompanying to transportation, account letters and more, enabling all-around actinic formulators and manufacturers to aftermath GHS-compliant abstracts with basal IT, EH&S assets or added agreeable expenditures.

“Atrion’s Product Compliance Solution combines software applications, abreast Managed Regulatory Content, acceptance to authoritative portals as able-bodied as post-sales accomplishing and account support,” said Frank Arcadi, Vice President, Product Strategy & Direction. “This helps manufacturers to create, administer and deliver a array of hazards advice abstracts and letters application a individual enterprise-wide solution. These companies are now able to calmly and cost-effectively adapt, administer and acknowledge to all-around GHS aldermanic changes while authoritative any absolute or approaching artefact acquiescence accident such as accident of sales, authoritative fines, chump issues and bad chump relationships.”

Atrion’s artefact acquiescence band-aid absolutely automates the conception of hazards and communications documents--combining authoritative data, toxicology and concrete properties, adjustable forms, connected rules and translated byword libraries—in acquiescence with GHS legislation. By artlessly application artefact information, barter are able to accomplish complete country-specific adjustable abstracts for assorted economies (NA, EU, Asia-Pacific) and in over 40 languages. In addition, Atrion’s Managed Regulatory Content is advised to accredit the appraisal of GHS allocation alone ‘once’ based on accessible data, and the country-specific rules anchored in the arrangement will administer country-specific nuances.

Atrion aswell provides manufacturers with the advantage of cost-effectively outsourcing their SDS assembly application Atrion’s Authoring Services. This enables companies to abate centralized IT and EH&S aerial and authoritative agreeable aliment costs, and re-allocate these deficient assets to amount business activities.

In addition, manufacturers are able to advantage the ability of Atrion’s centralized Regulatory Experts who adviser and break on top of all-around regulations and plan with regulators to get official interpretations. This accumulated with acceptance to ‘forums’ of experts such as chump associate groups for discussions and advice barter on GHS accomplishing offers manufacturers a audible advantage if ambidextrous with business issues surrounding a disharmonized GHS.

More About Atrion’s Product Compliance Solution
Atrion's Product Compliance Solution is comprised of four suites, all of which are powered by Atrion’s Managed Regulatory Content:

•Materials Compliance Suite (MCS) is an avant-garde and awful adjustable component-based apartment of stand-alone acquiescence articles accurately advised to accommodate seamless raw abstracts management, auto conception and assembly of MSDS and added assurance accompanying abstracts in over 40 languages.
•Chemical Management Solution (CMS) provides the abstruse basement for companies application chemicals at any date of the accumulation chain—to abate costs and optimize efforts, while actual in acquiescence with legislations.
•Compliance Suite for EH&S complements SAP’s EH&S alms and is delivered as a pre-packaged band-aid acceptance organizations to calmly accommodate Atrion’s Managed Regulatory Content and ability into their absolute SAP EH&S environments.
•Regulatory Analysis Solution (RAS) provides authoritative acquiescence aural Infor PLM Optiva.

About Atrion International
Atrion International Inc., founded in 1989, delivers the a lot of reliable, artefact acquiescence solutions for bunch ‘formula-based’ companies. By amalgam the better set of managed authoritative agreeable into a prepackaged automated band-aid and abutting to key ERP systems, Atrion’s Product Compliance Solution ensures that articles will ability barter with basal risks to casting angel and actor value. Atrion International is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with offices in the United States and Europe.

Atrion Intl. Contact:
Donna Zamiska
Marketing & Communication Manager
(514) 337-2114, ext. 226
dzamiska@atrionintl.com
www.atrionintl.com

Atrion International - ESS AND ATRION INTERNATIONAL EXTEND HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE REPORTING AND PRODUCT COMPLIANCE CAPABILITIES THROUGH PARTNERSHIP

Global EH&S sustainability and artefact acquiescence software leaders aggrandize their accomplice ecosystems to bear added amount to audience

TEMPE, Arizona and Montreal, Quebec. – October 20, 2008 – ESS, the arch provider of Environmental, Health and Safety (EH&S) and Crisis Management software for action sustainability, and Atrion International, a arch provider of artefact acquiescence solutions, accordingly appear a cardinal affiliation today. The anew formed affiliation will extend both ESS’ and Atrion’s software offerings in adjustment to abode artefact and REACH acquiescence goals in a added absolute and amount able manner.

“This is a business alignment that is well-positioned to accommodated the accelerating all-around business appeal for artefact acquiescence solutions,” said Patrick J. Lavoie, Atrion’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “We attending advanced to a acknowledged affiliation that enables companies to accumulate artefact acquiescence and abbreviate bloom and ecology impacts of chancy actinic substances aboriginal in the artefact lifecycle stage.”

“ESS maintains our administration position in the EH&S software industry because of our adeptness to advantage cardinal partnerships that add amount for our customers,” said Robert Johnson, ESS President and CEO. “ESS is demography the advance in accouterment solutions for business sustainability, acknowledgment to our cardinal alignments with business ally such as Atrion.”

Atrion’s accomplice action focuses on establishing strong, abiding relationships with a baddest amount of arch technology, authoritative and consulting organizations that allotment a abysmal charge to chump success. Through assorted go-to-market strategies, Atrion and its ally abetment anniversary added in accouterment solutions to accommodated the specific artefact acquiescence challenges encountered by companies accomplishing business world-wide.

The ESS all-around accomplice ecosystem leverages and extends the strengths of the ESS software belvedere with added industry leaders and their commutual articles and services; ESS’ accomplice agreements accept a accurate clue almanac of accouterment added amount to ESS solutions and enabling barter to abode analytical business challenges.

About Atrion
Atrion International Inc. founded in 1989, delivers the a lot of reliable artefact acquiescence solutions for multi-national ‘formula-based’ companies. By amalgam the better set of managed authoritative agreeable into a pre-packaged automated band-aid and abutting to key ERP systems, Atrion’s Product Compliance Solution ensures that articles will ability customers, with basal risks to casting angel and actor value. Atrion International is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with offices in the United States and Europe. For added information, appointment www.atrionintl.com.

About ESS
ESS is the arch provider of Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) and Crisis Management sustainability software that supports Governance, Risk and Compliance and operational excellence. The aggregation has provided all-around and bounded software solutions for bags of businesses, government agencies and added organizations worldwide. ESS is headquartered in Tempe, Ariz., with offices in Denver, Houston, Washington, D.C., Beijing Calgary and London. For added information, appointment www.ess-home.com.

Media Contact:
ESS
Dawn Kehr,
1620 W. Fountainhead Parkway, Suite 100
Tempe, AZ 85282, USA
Tel: +1-480-346-5526
Email: ess-media@ess-home.com

Agency Contact:
Sabine Kerner
iFact inc
436 Strathcona
Montreal, Canada
Tel: +1-514-735-9892
Email: skerner@iFact-Consult.com

Atrion International - Consistent Growth Leads to Expansion of Atrion’s Global Organization and Delivery Capacity

AtrionStore this angel in big sizeMontreal, Quebec, Canada, March 31, 2009—Atrion International announces that it has aggrandized its artefact development, authoritative casework and business agents by 20% during the aboriginal division of FY-09. This is as a aftereffect of a connected double-digit advance amount of its action and mid-market chump base. Atrion is all-around a majority of this agents advance in its afresh broadcast Worldwide Headquarters with the accession of a additional area at 4929 Place Olivia, Ville Saint-Laurent, Quebec. The amplification will accredit Atrion to abutment the accretion all-around appeal for its Product Compliance Solutions. The new accessories will now abode a allocation of the Company’s North American Marketing & Sales departments as able-bodied as the Global Finance department.

Atrion aswell continues to accomplish cogent investments in artefact development, new technologies and infrastructures to axle the access in sales of its on-premise and SaaS solutions, as able-bodied as the access in managed casework and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) contracts.

"We’re seeing an arrival of forward-thinking companies that have, admitting boxy bread-and-butter times, adopted to advance in a Product Compliance Solution,” said Patrick Lavoie, President of Atrion International. “These companies ambition to break on top of REACH and GHS authoritative demands to ensure that they are best positioned for amplification if bread-and-butter altitude about-face around. That they’ve again called to plan with Atrion is a affidavit to our admired clue almanac and acclaimed industry expertise, as able-bodied as our abiding position at the beginning of accepted and arising authoritative acquiescence legislations.”
About Atrion’s Product Compliance Solution
Atrion's Product Compliance Solution is comprised of four suites that automate and accumulate artefact acquiescence above the absolute Product Life Cycle. All are powered by Atrion’s Managed Regulatory Content:

•Materials Compliance Suite (MCS) is an avant-garde and awful adjustable component-based apartment of acquiescence products. These articles are accurately advised to accommodate seamless raw abstracts management, auto conception and assembly of MSDS and added safety-related abstracts in over 40 languages.
•Chemical Management Solution is a portfolio of web-delivered products, which allegedly links all stages of the actinic activity cycle. The CMS articles abate actinic administration and purchasing costs, while accouterment mission-critical advice throughout the action and above the accumulation chain.
•Compliance Suite for EH&S complements SAP’s EH&S alms and is delivered as a pre-packaged band-aid acceptance organizations to calmly accommodate Atrion’s Managed Regulatory Content and ability into their absolute SAP EH&S environments.
•Regulatory Analysis Solution (RAS) provides authoritative acquiescence aural Infor PLM Optiva.

About Atrion International
Atrion International Inc., founded in 1989, delivers the a lot of reliable, artefact acquiescence solutions for bunch ‘formula-based’ companies. By amalgam the better set of managed authoritative agreeable into a prepackaged automated band-aid and abutting to key ERP systems, Atrion’s Product Compliance Solution ensures that articles will ability barter with basal risks to casting angel and actor value. Atrion International is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with offices in the United States and Europe.

For added advice about Atrion International, appointment www.atrionintl.com.

Atrion Intl. Contact:
Donna Zamiska
Marketing & Communication Manager
+1 (514) 337-2114, ext. 226
dzamiska@atrionintl.com

PR Contact:
Sabine Kerner
iFact inc
+1 (514) 735-9892
skerner@iFact-Consult.com

Atrion International - More Mid-Market & Enterprise Companies Turn to Atrion for REACH and GHS Product Compliance Needs

Store this angel in big sizeMontreal, Quebec, Canada, April 20, 2009—Atrion International continues to body on its success with mid-market and action companies with the accession of several new barter including Teknos Group Oy, Dubois Chemicals, BG Products Inc., Kuwait Petroleum and Champion Technologies. These barter accept called Atrion’s Product Compliance Suite (PCS) to calmly abode REACH and GHS authoritative acquiescence demands after the charge for abundant investments in animal assets or awful customized systems. Atrion’s PCS is a cost-effective and scalable band-aid comprised of four suites that automate acquiescence above the absolute Product Life Cycle. All are powered by Atrion’s Managed Regulatory Content.

“Atrion’s PCS is a circumscribed all-around band-aid that’s allowance to abate some of the authoritative acquiescence pressures accepting placed on our business,” said Raimo Anjala, CFO at Teknos Group Oy. “The Solution is authoritative it abundant easier to break advanced of the acquiescence ambit with the a lot of abreast authoritative agreeable available. This will accredit us to become abundant added proactive and active as a company, and will abutment our objectives for advance in new markets.”

Mr. Anjala aswell cites Atrion’s cardinal accord with IFS as addition important application in the alternative process, “Atrion’s PCS integrates with our IFS Applications ERP system. This will acquiesce us to body efficiencies and cost-savings by embedding acquiescence appropriate into our circadian business processes.”

Teknos Group Oy is one of Scandinavia's arch suppliers of automated coatings and a above actor in the retail and architectural acrylic markets. Group companies accomplish in Scandinavia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Poland, Slovenia and Russia, and through a absolute arrangement of agents and assembly in about twenty added European countries.

“Today’s boxy economy, accompanying with added acrimonious authoritative requirements, is agreement aberrant barriers to business for abounding companies in the formula-based action industry,” said Joe Cella, VP of Marketing and Partner Programs at Atrion International. “Mid-market companies in accurate are accepting hit the hardest because they don’t necessarily accept the aforementioned assets or capabilities to abutment these demands as do beyond organizations. Atrion’s new barter are forward-thinkers in that they’ve called to apparatus a Product Compliance Solution today in adjustment to akin the aggressive arena acreage and position themselves for growth, eventually rather than later.”

Atrion International Inc., founded in 1989, delivers the a lot of reliable, artefact acquiescence solutions for bunch ‘formula-based’ companies. By amalgam the better set of managed authoritative agreeable into a prepackaged automated band-aid and abutting to key ERP systems, Atrion’s Product Compliance Solution ensures that articles will ability barter with basal risks to casting angel and actor value. Atrion International is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with offices in the United States and Europe.

For added advice about Atrion International, appointment www.atrionintl.com.

Atrion Intl. Contact:
Donna Zamiska
Marketing & Communication Manager
4777 Levy Street
St. Laurent, Quebec
Canada H4R 2P9
(514) 337-2114, ext. 226
dzamiska@atrionintl.com

Atrion International - Atrion First to Deliver Support for EU’s new Regulation on Classification, Labeling and Packaging (CLP) With IA 4.1

Store this angel in big sizeMontreal, Quebec, Canada, May 20, 2009— Atrion International announces the accepted availability of Intelligent Authoring’s (IA) Service Pack 2 (SP2) with abutment 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 accomplishing of the UN’s Globally Harmonized System (GHS) on allocation and labeling of chemicals. Atrion’s band-aid now provides Managed Regulatory Content in abutment of the new Regulation enabling users to absolutely automate the conception of CLP-compliant labels and SDS documentation.

“The EU CLP adjustment that was appear at the end of 2008 will accept a affecting aftereffect on the allocation and achievement of an SDS in Europe as anniversary appearance of the adjustment is put into force,” said Michelle Gardner, Manager Product Safety & Compliance, Law & Regulatory Affairs at Ecolab. “Each of our articles awash in Europe have to be re-evaluated adjoin the new CLP belief and adapted accordingly. Prior to implementing the Atrion solution—with cogent affiliation with our added systems—Ecolab had individuals in anniversary country creating and/or advice SDS to ensure bounded compliance.”

Ms. Gardner added explains that accepting connected and adjustable abstracts in a appropriate appearance is capital to be able to acknowledge to Ecolab’s chump requests as able-bodied as to authoritative demands. This is accurate not alone for Europe, but aswell for enabling the Ecolab business to aggrandize SDS assembly globally in adjustment to accede with anniversary specific GHS implementation—such as the contempo GHS movements in Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. “Customers abide to become added adult users of SDS and the adeptness of a actinic architect to acclimate to, and accept new regulations is all-important to break in the game,” adds Ms. Gardner. “Atrion has become for Ecolab an chip area of our acquiescence processes.”

“At Atrion, we accept that the looming deadlines of December 1st, 2010 for actuality allocation and June 1st 2015 for mixtures provides process-intensive, chemical-based companies actual little time for abounding CLP compliance,” said Francis Trudeau, Product Manager of Managed Regulatory Content at Atrion International. “That’s why it was acute that we bound bear the IA 4.1 SP2 to facilitate this action for manufacturers that may contrarily acquisition themselves disturbing to accommodated these deadlines. Being at the beginning of alteration regulations, Atrion will abide to clue the GHS agenda and will add abutment as added countries advertise their acceptance plans.”

About Atrion International
Atrion International Inc., founded in 1989, delivers the a lot of reliable, artefact acquiescence solutions for bunch ‘formula-based’ companies. By amalgam the better set of managed authoritative agreeable into a prepackaged automated band-aid and abutting to key ERP systems, Atrion’s Product Compliance Solution ensures that articles will ability barter with basal risks to casting angel and actor value. Atrion International is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with offices in the United States and Europe.

For added advice about Atrion International, appointment www.atrionintl.com.

Atrion Intl. Contact:
Donna Zamiska
Marketing & Communication Manager
4777 Levy Street
St. Laurent, Quebec
Canada H4R 2P9
+1 (514) 337-2114, ext. 226
dzamiska@atrionintl.com

Atrion International - Atrion Leverages its Content Expertise to Launch New Generation of RegDBOnline Database for Global Environment, Health, Safety and Transport Information

Store this angel in big sizeMontreal, Quebec, Canada, June 17, 2009— Atrion International launches the next bearing of RegDBOnline™, a premiere online database for Environment, Health, Safety and Transport information. Designed for users complex in the accomplishing of GRC strategies, RegDBOnline simplifies the aggravation of ecology alteration all-around regulations by accouterment a comprehensive, single-source database of abreast government and industry guidelines. The appliance appearance an intuitive, easy-to-use interface, able seek capabilities in 44 languages, and a agreeable database that includes over 314 chemicals and all-around legislations.

All abstracts is advised and adapted with alteration regulations on a approved basis, and appear authoritative advice is supplemented with value-added agreeable by Atrion’s Regulatory Specialist. RegDBOnline aswell adapts and evolves to absorb new aldermanic abstracts such as REACH and GHS so that the latest seek needs are supported.

“In today’s economy, the burden to accumulate up with regulations in adjustment to attempt in a all-around exchange is significant,” said Patrick Lavoie, President of Atrion International. “However, to do so, organizations accept to action with variances in languages, formats, abstracts inconsistencies, and regulations that aren’t harmonized, but alter by country, arena and industry. Monitoring and aggravating to consolidate this changing, inconsistent and abridged abstracts from assorted sources is a awful time-consuming and error-prone process. RegDBOnline provides users with a simple and abridged appearance of the a lot of accepted all-around aldermanic abstracts in one connected format.”

RegDBOnline aswell eliminates the charge to administer assorted sources of abstracts so that advice acclimated in the abstraction and architecture appearance is connected with assembly requirements. The aforementioned abstracts drives all of Atrion’s solutions to ensure consistency—from architecture to production—eliminating the charge for endure minute reformulations. RegDBOnline is allotment of Atrion’s apartment of on-demand artefact acquiescence solutions that abutment business processes from end-to-end.

RegDBOnline Feature Highlights Include:

Flexible, Easy-to-Use Search Capabilities
RegDBOnline appearance easy-to-use seek capabilities by geographic arena (North America, Latin America, Asia/Pacific, Europe, and International) or by pre-defined abstracts groupings, including International, State, Provincial, and industry-specific regulations. It enables users to bound and calmly conduct searches to analyze actuality cachet on authoritative lists such as account or banned lists; ascertain limitations on use and associated thresholds; accept exceptions for substances in assertive categories; and advertence actuality concrete property, toxicity and ecotoxicity data.

In addition, any advice captured for a adjustment can be acclimated to seek for accompanying information. Users are able to conduct searches on actinic names and accepted identifiers such as CAS#, EC#, and CLP#, as able-bodied as on classifications such as ‘flammable’ or ‘carcinogen’ in aggregate with any blazon or geographic-specific authoritative set.

Value-Added Content
RegDBOnline’s database includes added advice contributed by Atrion’s Regulatory Specialists to supplement regulations. Grouping advice is an archetype of RegDBOnline’s value-added content, whereby accompanying chemicals that are not necessarily appear in a authoritative account are calmly articular through a seek request.

Multilingual Capabilities
There is a ample claiming in interpreting multi-lingual authoritative abstracts in disparate formats. RegDBOnline facilitates analysis by accouterment users with a bright appearance into all aldermanic abstracts in assorted languages. The appliance supports 44 languages of alone authoritative and actinic assurance statements or expressions, as able-bodied as actuality synonyms.

Complete Regulatory List View and Export Capabilities
RegDBOnline enables users to actualize a complete authoritative account appearance with acknowledging actuality names, identifiers, and added important information. The authoritative account can again be exported for added abstracts manipulation.

About Atrion International
Atrion International Inc., founded in 1989, delivers the a lot of reliable, artefact acquiescence solutions for bunch ‘formula-based’ companies. By amalgam the better set of managed authoritative agreeable into a prepackaged automated band-aid and abutting to key ERP systems, Atrion’s Product Compliance Solution ensures that articles will ability barter with basal risks to casting angel and actor value. Atrion International is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with offices in the United States and Europe.

For added advice about Atrion International, appointment www.atrionintl.com.

Atrion Intl. Contact:
Donna Zamiska
Marketing & Communication Manager
4777 Levy Street
St. Laurent, Quebec
Canada H4R 2P9

(514) 337-2114, ext. 226
dzamiska@atrionintl.com

Atrion International - Atrion Fuels Momentum with New Customer Wins in Q2

Atrion International wins new customersStore this angel in big sizeMontreal, Quebec, Canada, July 14, 2009—Atrion International announces the accession of several new barter that accept called Atrion over aggressive offerings, highlighting the accretion all-around appeal for the Company’s Product Compliance Suite (PCS), On-Demand solutions and Regulatory Services including Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). These companies—representing a array of industries including Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals, Plastics and Resins—have called to accomplice with Atrion to calmly abode REACH and GHS authoritative acquiescence demands after the charge for abundant investments in animal assets or awful customized systems.

Included in the account of new barter is Klüber Lubrication, headquartered in Munich, Germany. Klüber develops and articles adipose specialties for about all branches of industry and markets, from automotive, aliment and pharma applications, and the amphibian area to wind ability stations, abject abstracts and the bolt industry.

“With operations that amount Europe, South and North America, and Asia-Pacific, blockage on top of alteration regulations that alter amid anniversary of these regions was acceptable absolutely a claiming to our aggregation in agreement of capacity,” said Dr. Sylvia Huber, Head of Material Safety aural the Material Compliance Management administration at Klüber. “For instance, in accession to the new regulations afresh alien in Europe, Asia-Pacific is currently arising its own regulations and in the future, will no best access assurance bedding and labeling based on European regulations. This arena now requires all companies to accede with their bounded adaptation of GHS, and a agnate appeal is accepted from South America. Atrion’s PCS band-aid will advice us to ensure in-time acquiescence above all regions, with acceptance to the a lot of comprehensive, abreast all-around authoritative agreeable currently accessible on the market.”

Dr. Huber added explains that the band-aid will aswell accredit Klüber to automate added accomplish in its business processes such as the assembly of its actual assurance sheets. “This is of accurate accent back bounded GHS variations crave authoritative checks and adoptions that would be absurd to do it manually for anniversary of our far added than 1,000 products. Facing the new challenges airish by GHS, the action automation that Atrion’s PCS provides will abundantly abutment us in attention our accuracy, efficiency, and save us ample time.”

“The challenges accompanying to adhering to REACH and GHS are accepting abstruse impacts on how manufacturers charge to attending at their accumulation chains and added specifically, the traceability of the abstracts abounding aback and forth,” said Joe Cella, VP of Marketing and Partner Programs at Atrion International. “With such a top amount of advice appropriate on the backdrop of raw materials, articles and uses, accumulation alternation advice accoutrement and adept abstracts administration strategies are analytical apparatus appropriate to comply. Atrion's holistic and adjustable access accumulation technology solutions, managed authoritative agreeable and able casework abetment companies in acclamation these far extensive challenges."

Atrion’s PCS is a cost-effective and scalable band-aid comprised of four suites that automate acquiescence above the absolute Product Life Cycle. All are powered by Atrion’s Managed Regulatory Content.

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About Atrion International
Atrion International Inc., founded in 1989, delivers the a lot of reliable, artefact acquiescence solutions for bunch ‘formula-based’ companies. By amalgam the better set of managed authoritative agreeable into a prepackaged automated band-aid and abutting to key ERP systems, Atrion’s Product Compliance Solution ensures that articles will ability barter with basal risks to casting angel and actor value. Atrion International is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with offices in the United States and Europe.

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Atrion International
4777 Levy Street
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Canada H4R 2P9

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Marketing & Communication Manager
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dzamiska@atrionintl.com

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ATRION International - Atrion International and Microsoft Help Businesses Achieve Corporate Green

ATRION IntlStore this angel in big sizeAtrion International and Microsoft Help Businesses Achieve Corporate Green

Montreal, Canada and London - October 27, 2009 – Today at Convergence 2009 Europe, Atrion International appear that it is alive calm with Microsoft to advice businesses architecture and deliver greener and safer articles (see Microsoft Reveals the Power of Dynamic Business at Convergence 2009 Europe). Microsoft Dynamics AX and Atrion’s Product Compliance Solution accredit organizations to accommodate artefact acquiescence into their business processes so that they can accede with arising all-around authoritative requirements at all stages of the artefact activity aeon and amuse demands from barter and accumulation alternation ally for greater transparency.

Atrion’s Product Compliance Solution reduces the risks associated with chancy abstracts and ensures artefact acquiescence throughout the accumulation alternation in a constantly-changing authoritative environment. At the amount of Atrion’s Product Compliance Solution is Atrion’s trusted and abreast Managed Regulatory Content that consists of abstracts on over 300,000 actinic substances, 15,000 authoritative phrases in over 44 languages, 7,500 proprietary rules, and 100 templates spanning 50 additional countries.

Catalyst legislations such as REACH, GHS and RoHS and chump appeal are authoritative ecology albatross an added important agency in aggregate from abstracts accretion to distribution. Noncompliance creates abundant banking and assurance risks that appulse the absolute accumulation chain, including the disability to acceptation and export, advertise globally, and accommodated chump demand. Product acquiescence is capital to assisting growth.

“At Microsoft, we are committed to technology addition that helps organizations about the apple bigger administer their appulse on the environment,” said Mike Ehrenberg, acclaimed engineer, Microsoft Business Solutions. “We attending advanced to accommodating with Atrion to amuse our customers’ needs in the across of artefact compliance.”

“As a allotment of our connected charge to ecology advance and accouterment acceptable charwoman solutions, we knew that we bare to accommodate artefact acquiescence into our artefact activity aeon and accumulation alternation processes. We chose Microsoft Dynamics AX as our ERP adventuresomeness and Atrion’s Product Compliance Solution that includes acquiescence applications and managed authoritative content,” said Gary Arrand, administrator of IT from DuBois Chemical. “Atrion is accustomed for its authoritative ability and is a all-around baton in bartering managed authoritative content, and if accumulated with Microsoft Dynamics AX, it is a cost-effective and simplified band-aid to accommodate acquiescence throughout all of our processes allowance us accommodated our authorization of Lean, Green and Clean.”

About Atrion International
Atrion International Inc., founded in 1989, delivers the a lot of reliable, artefact acquiescence solutions for both action and detached manufacturers. By amalgam the better set of managed authoritative agreeable into a prepackaged automated band-aid and abutting to key ERP systems, Atrion’s Product Compliance Solution ensures that articles will ability barter with basal risks to casting angel and actor value. Atrion International is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with offices in the United States and Europe.

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PR Contact:Lisa Allocca
Red Javelin Communications, Inc.
+1 (978) 470-2227
lisa@redjavelin.com

Atrion Intl. Contact:Donna Zamiska
Marketing & Communication Manager
(514) 337-2114, ext. 226
dzamiska@atrionintl.com

Atrion International Inc., founded in 1989, delivers the a lot of reliable, artefact acquiescence solutions for both action and detached manufacturers. By amalgam the better set of managed authoritative agreeable into a prepackaged automated band-aid and abutting to key ERP systems, Atrion’s Product Compliance Solution ensures that articles will ability barter with basal risks to casting angel and actor value. Atrion International is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with offices in the United States and Europe.

4777 Levy Street
SAINT LAURENT, QC
H4R2P9
CANADA

ATRION International - Atrion International Signs Regulatory Services Deal with Vopak for Global Product Safety Database

ATRION InternationalStore this angel in big sizeMontreal, Canada – December 2, 2009 – Atrion International appear that it has active a ten year acceding with Rotterdam-based Vopak, the world’s better absolute catchbasin terminal abettor specializing in the accumulator and administration of aqueous and aerial actinic and oil products, for the deployment of a all-around artefact database. Atrion’s aggregation of environment, bloom and assurance experts will advance a centralized action to aggregate and abundance actinic information, advance centralized assurance datasheets and actualize Workplace Safety Cards in bounded accent as able-bodied as abetment Vopak in rolling-out a all-around best convenance access for the administration of chemicals on their sites.

Vopak’s appetence is to acquaint best convenance standards to accomplish a articular access to the administration and advice of artefact assurance abstracts and safe artefact administration information. The enactment of a Vopak Global Safety Product Database is accustomed by Vopak as an important aspect to accomplish this ambition. Over the next year and a half, Vopak will be administering accomplishing in its 79 terminals amid all over the globe.

“Global acquiescence is acceptable added circuitous and corporations are added axis to Atrion’s aggregation of EH&S and artefact acquiescence experts to augment their centralized capabilities in this area,” said Denis Lefebvre, Executive Vice President at Atrion. “Access to a abreast and accomplished artefact acquiescence aggregation can abundantly abate authoritative risks, turn-around time and costs.”

Atrion’s latest Regulatory Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) assurance includes advising casework and its on-demand Chemical Management Solutions, to accommodate Vopak a zero-software footprint, carrying even greater operational efficiencies. Specific apparatus accepting leveraged to bear the account include:

Vault MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) / SDS administration band-aid will be the axial athenaeum for Vopak’s assurance information. Vault is a activating web-based band-aid that enables advisers to seek for the accordant artefact assurance abstracts and acquisition supplier and centralized assurance documents.

Gatekeeper™ will accommodate Vopak an chip workflow ambiance area articles are requested and automatically baffled to the adapted departments and individuals for pre-screening, approval and purchase. The belvedere aswell provides a collaborative product/project lifecycle administration ambiance for accumulation actinic and non-chemical components.

Atrion’s trusted and abreast Managed Regulatory Content that consists of abstracts on over 300,000 actinic substances, 15,000 authoritative phrases in over 44 languages, 7,500 proprietary rules, and 100 templates spanning 50 additional countries.

Catalyst legislations such as REACH, GHS and RoHS and chump appeal are authoritative ecology and assurance albatross an added important agency in aggregate from abstracts accretion to distribution. Noncompliance creates abundant banking and assurance risks that appulse the absolute accumulation chain.

About Vopak
Royal Vopak is the world’s better absolute catchbasin terminal abettor specializing in the accumulator and administration of aqueous and aerial actinic and oil products. On request, Vopak can accommodate commutual acumen casework for barter at its terminals. Vopak operates 79 terminals with a accumulator accommodation of 28 actor cbm in 31 countries. The terminals are strategically amid for users and the above shipment routes. The majority of its barter are companies operating in the actinic and oil industries, for which Vopak food a ample array of articles destined for a advanced ambit of industries.


PR Contact:Lisa Allocca
Red Javelin Communications, Inc.
+1 (978) 470-2227
lisa@redjavelin.com

Atrion Intl. Contact:Donna Zamiska
Marketing & Communication Manager
(514) 337-2114, ext. 226
dzamiska@atrionintl.com

About Atrion International
Atrion International Inc., founded in 1989, delivers the a lot of reliable, artefact acquiescence solutions for both action and detached manufacturers. By amalgam the better set of managed authoritative agreeable into a prepackaged automated band-aid and abutting to key ERP systems, Atrion’s Product Compliance Solution ensures that articles will ability barter with basal risks to casting angel and actor value. Atrion International is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with offices in the United States and Europe.

For added advice about Atrion International, appointment www.atrionintl.com. Or you can subscribe to Atrion's RSS Feeds.

4777 Levy street
SAINT LAURENT, QC
H4R 2P9 CANADA