2003 Press Releases
October 8, 2003 – Jennifer McCracken to speak at 7th International Molded Pulp Packaging Seminar, 14-16 February 2004 in Orlando, Florida. Ms. McCracken will discuss current regulatory issues affecting packaging. For more information about the seminar, visit the IMPEPA website .
September 29, 2003 – Victor Bell to speak at 3rd International Elelectronics Recycling Congress, 14-16 January 2004 in Basel, Switzerland. Mr. Bell will address WEEE and RoHS reporting requirements and present case studies of implementation. To find out more about IERC 2004, visit the ICM website.
September 15, 2003 -- Victor Bell to give 2-day workshop on International Environmental Packaging Requirements, November 4-5, 2003, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The workshop is intended to educate packaging designers, product marketing personnel, packaging manufacturers, packaging suppliers, and supply chain management staff on fee and design requirements worldwide and how to implement them cost-effectively within a business. For registration information, please contact EPI or Dr. Patrick Loi , Tel: 03-511 6588 / 511 5986, Fax: 03-511 6604
August 15, 2003 -- EPI to co-sponsor E-SCRAP 2003, a national conference on electronics recycling! Don't miss this opportunity to explore issues such as recovery initiatives, scrap markets, product stewardship, and policy. EPI will also be offering demonstrations of Pack.NET before and after the second day's proceedings. The conference was organized by Resource Recycling.
March 27, 2003 – EPI forms partnership with GlobalPKG, Inc., the leading provider of online Packaging Lifecycle Management solutions.
Specification Management + Environmental Compliance = Environmental Responsibility
The partnership provides businesses that have intensive packaging production requirements with the most comprehensive means to manage packaging and model environmental costs while meeting reporting and compliance requirements. A uniform data interface will facilitate data sharing between various parts of the packaging chain to meet international reporting requirements. In addition, Global PKG and EPI will work with their clients to ensure that data is developed and collected in such a way as to fulfill the requirements of both systems.
“EPI is the leader in assisting companies to deal with the complex regulatory environment for packaging and product stewardship worldwide, and we are very excited to partner with them. This partnership demonstrates GlobalPKG's commitment to provide our customers with true control over the complete packaging process. The results they are going to see will be in efficiency, cost reduction and more intelligent response to environmental issues,” said Robert DeNola, Founder and Strategist, GlobalPKG.
“Together, GlobalPKG and EPI are empowering all participants in the packaging process across the enterprise and throughout their supply chain with a seamless solution for design and collaboration in real time requiring only the use of an Internet browser. The results for our clients will be faster time to market, a significant reduction in costs associated with packaging supply chain and a previously unrealizable level of efficiency in managing complex environmental requirements.”
Victor Bell, CEO, EPI, said, “It is critical for packaging designers to understand the environmental issues and fee requirements affecting their products and packaging. By having these data systems integrated, we can help avoid redundancy in data collection and maximize the economic benefits of Pack.NET by linking it to the best packaging and product data available within the company's systems.”
Packaging in the Complex World of Multi-National Regulations
The packaging industry is estimated to be a $450 billion global market. This industry has traditionally proven difficult to streamline since it involves a complex array of specialized manufacturers, distributors, fabricators, and many others. To compound matters, packaging specifications number in the thousands and cover everything from dimensions, materials and design to environmental and regulatory information, company-specific policies, units of measurement, legal requirements, raw materials usage, recycling, and much more. In spite of this complexity, the typical enterprise packaging processes is disjointed and relies on a hodge-podge of legacy systems. Often captured in little more than hard-copy binders, data is often lost in the supply chain and difficult, if not impossible, to share. Additionally, the information that needs to be accessed and shared is frequently incomplete, inconsistent or dated. Lastly, product and packaging development processes currently require a linear hand-off of data from participant to participant, whereas they should ideally work in tandem to support real-time collaboration and rapid iterations, producing the highest quality package in the most cost efficient and environmentally responsible way possible.
About GlobalPKG
GlobalPKG, Inc. ( www.gpkg.com ) is a San Jose, California-based Corporation founded by a team of technology and packaging experts that has worked together for the past seven years to create Internet-delivered, enterprise solutions for all participants in the packaging supply chain. GlobalPKG offers the first hosted e-service that enables fully integrated packaging specification management, real-time collaboration, and design automation to dramatically increase the efficiencies of the enterprise product life cycle. Leveraging the Internet, GlobalPKG offers a unique, uniform, and real-time approach to managing the packaging life cycle process with all participants of the packaging supply chain, reducing costs and time-to-market, and improving communications and packaging quality across the enterprise.
For More Information Contact:
EPI: Victor Bell , Tel: 401-423-2225 or GlobalPKG, Inc – Sonja Norland , Tel: 408-260-2202.
Feb. 25, 2003 -- EPI featured in Trends In Environmental Packaging. The article, published in the February issue of Inside Supply Management, provides an overview of the environmental regulations affecting packaging in the global marketplace, and also gives a perspective on how long-term trends will affect the future of packaging. Read the article .
Jan. 23, 2003 -- EPI Joins with Foresite Systems Ltd. to Provide Pack.NET Reporting Software to North America
Environmental Packaging International (EPI) has become the exclusive marketing and software support organization for Pack.NET software in North America.
Pack.NET, is the software solution that enables multi-national companies to comply with their regulatory and reporting requirements for packaging, batteries and electrical equipment worldwide. Today, product manufacturers must meet environmental packaging and product stewardship requirements in more than 30 countries. Compliance with these requirements entails paying packaging, battery and electronic product fees, submitting reports on products and packaging, and maintaining detailed files on packaging systems to ensure compliance.
Pack.NET is a total solution for companies wishing to manage and control reporting world-wide, using either a centralized packaging/product database or a more decentralized structure with a degree of localized control.
Pack.NET can be used to measure and calculate the costs for each country, predict cost changes as a result of changing packaging specifications, and compare costs between countries and operating divisions. Even analysis of cost per product per country can be achieved.
Foresite Systems Ltd. , the creator of Pack.NET, has been serving the European corporate community since 1991. Pack.NET is marketed in Europe as Pack.Trak.
For more information about the software, please contact us at 1-401-423-2225.