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EU European Union

Are You Ready? WEEE Directive Full Implementation Starts 15-Aug-18

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Processing of waste electrical and electronic materials

Many man­u­fac­tur­ers selling indus­tri­al products into the EU mar­ket have come to under­stand at least one of the envir­on­ment­al pro­tec­tion Dir­ect­ives, RoHS – the “Restric­tion of the Use of Cer­tain Haz­ard­ous Sub­stances.” In this post, I’m going to be look­ing at anoth­er envir­on­ment­al dir­ect­ive: WEEE – the “Waste Elec­tric­al and Elec­tron­ic Equip­ment” Dir­ect­ive (2012/19/EU). The WEEE Dir­ect­ive requires […]

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CE, Brexit, and Authorised Representatives

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Brexit: UK and EU Flags against a blue sky

CE, Brexit and Author­ised Rep­res­ent­at­ives We’re just passing the T-1 year mark on the UK’s jour­ney towards leav­ing the EU. Some of my read­ers are “Leav­ers”, while oth­ers are “Remain­ers”, but for every­one liv­ing in the UK or doing busi­ness with the UK, there are many ques­tions that remain unclear. To be fair, some of the […]

Canada

New Directions in Plastics Machinery

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Canada’s Par­ti­cip­a­tion in ISO TC 270 In Feb­ru­ary of 2016, Canada formed the SCC Mir­ror Com­mit­tee (SMC) to ISO TC 270, Rub­ber and Plastics Machinery. This inter­na­tion­al tech­nic­al com­mit­tee is cur­rently devel­op­ing ISO 20430, the first inter­na­tion­al plastic injec­tion mould­ing machine stand­ard. Until the pub­lic­a­tion of ISO 20430, two stand­ards have been fight­ing for dom­in­ance: EN 201, Plastics and […]