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Regulator designed to help reduce manufacturers' emissions

David Greenfield, Control Engineering

Actio Corp.'s newest Regulator product enables proactive emissions monitoring and reduction.  Actio Regulator is an on-demand software product which can be used by manufacturers to calculate chemical inventory, usage, emissions, chemical mixtures, scrap and waste, as well as incoming and outgoing distribution volumes.
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Material Disclosure Best Practices (for Disclosure of Chemical Information)
By Christian Nowak

How do manufacturers know what's coming up through their supply chains?  How do they manage detailed product data for reporting, while safeguarding trade secrets?  Actio Corp. has been making software ... so that large manufacturers with a global supply chain network can audit and manage the chemicals, substances, and mixtures in their products.
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July 20, 2010
Wetlands and Water Allocation: U.S. Policy

By Chris Watts, Regulatory Expert (Johns Hopkins University), Actio Corp.

In the modern world, where more and more people compete for a continually dwindling clean water supply, wetland protection is a key component in providing a reliable source of drinking water.  Over the past three decades, the US and other countries have begun to recognize the important services that wetlands provide to human society...
Environmental Leader Water and Wetland Policy
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Global aerospace manufacturer cuts material-approval time by 75%

By Russell McCann

For approving new chemicals/materials brought into a plant, the Actio solution was installed and working within 90 days -- it immediately reduced material screening and approval times by 75%.
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September 18, 2009
Lowering REACH chemicals compliance pains at Stanley Works

By Roberto Michel

Global manufacturer Stanley Works began using REACHtracker, the REACH solution from Actio, in 2008. Besides acting as a single, web-based repository for REACH, the system also handles email collaboration and work-flow with trading partners involved in compliance.
Stanley Tools and Reach Compliance - a case study
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Electronic system cuts paper and costs of managing hazardous materials

By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek

In addition to MSDS Vault, Actio recently introduced into its chemical-management portfolio Actio Gatekeeper, a product that helps users automatically route and track requests, approvals, and purchases of hazardous materials.

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Actio updates MSDS Vault materials management system, to lower regulatory risks for manufacturers

Mark T. Hoske, Control Engineering

(M)SDS Vault is an on-demand centralized materials information management system that provides round-the-clock accessibility to accurate, consistent product safety information - down to the substance level - across all facilities.
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December 9, 2009
How To Convert to GHS (the Globally Harmonized System of Chemical Classification)

IndustryWeek feature, By Kal Kawar, Professional Engineer (Chemical Engineering) and Certified Industrial Hygienist

The goal of GHS is to provide a consistent framework for classifying and identifying chemical hazards throughout global supply chains.  Actio Corp ....

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Hosted services tapped to manage data on chemicals

By Jaikumar Vijayan, ComputerWorld

Behr Process Corp. in Santa Ana, Calif., switched from a paper-based system to Actio's service two years ago and has seen significant improvements...
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Vendors target vertical markets

By Phil Hochmuth, Network World

While Easton uses products from Cisco and IBM, its niche products, such as Actio's software, are often key components in a vertical businesses IT infrastructure, says Michael Mendoza, environmental health and safety coordinator at Easton Sports.
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