3E Company®, the leading provider of Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) compliance and information management services, today announced that it has received a Business Achievement Award from the Environmental Business Journal (EBJ) in the Information category. The Company was recognized for continually providing its customers with the highest quality environmental regulatory information and content to enable compliance management across the supply chain. This is the fourth consecutive year that 3E Company has received a Business Achievement Award. 3E Company was the only company recognized in both the MSDS and regulatory data areas.
The Company was also recognized for introducing several innovative new products during 2009, including ArielLogic™ for Food & Flavors, a powerful compliance solution for flavor, food, and beverage manufacturers offering centralized, instant access to regulatory information. The Company also introduced the 3E Online Supplier Portal™, a new tool for retailers aiming to heighten their level of environmental compliance, better understand regulatory implications, and increase customer satisfaction, and Ariel Data Manager (ADM)™ - VMSDS, a data management solution that helps SAP users manage their vendors’ global inbound material safety data sheets (MSDSs) within the SAP EH&S platform. In addition, 3E Company extended the internationalization of the MSDgen® MSDS Authoring System with multi-lingual capabilities and enhancements to help customers comply with global regulatory obligations, such as Europe's Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) and the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) for classification and labeling of chemicals.
The EBJ Business Achievement Awards recognize innovation and value creation in the market. Sponsored by Environmental Business International, which publishes Environmental Business Journal, the 2009 EBJ Business Achievement Award winners were determined by a committee of EBJ staff and EBJ editorial advisory board members. Criteria for the award included revenue growth, profitability gains, technology innovations and noteworthy expansions or acquisitions.
"We chose to honor 3E Company because of its continued focus on improving and expanding its MSDS and regulatory content,” said Grant Ferrier, editor-in-chief, Environmental Business Journal. “There has been lots of activity in the environmental information business and access to this type of reliable and comprehensive environmental information is invaluable to companies working to achieve compliance with ever changing regulatory requirements.”
“We are delighted to receive this award as it validates our industry leadership position and strengthens our reputation for providing proven, trusted and unparalleled environmental regulatory compliance solutions and content,” said Robert S. Christie, CEO and President, 3E Company. “As companies around the globe are challenged with identifying, tracking, maintaining and complying with international regulatory guidelines, 3E Company stands ready to assist with the industry’s largest aggregation of chemical, regulatory and compliance data.”
The 2010 EBJ awards will be presented in a special ceremony at the Environmental Industry Summit VIII in Coronado, Calif. on the evening of March 3, 2010. The list of EBJ award winners will also be published in the Executive Review issue of Environmental Business Journal.
About 3E Company
3E Company is the first company to provide a comprehensive suite of services for environmental, health and safety (EH&S) related chemical and hazardous materials information and compliance management that addresses the entire chemical lifecycle. This suite of services includes regulatory research; MSDS authoring, distribution and management; transportation; emergency response; training; regulatory reporting; and hazardous waste management. 3E has the industry leading combination of a 24-7-365 hazmat mission control call center, with an online platform for hazmat compliance information management, all built on a foundation of the world's premier hazardous substance database of global regulatory and compliance information. Its international, multi-lingual professional staff is composed of regulatory specialists, experienced product stewards, industrial hygienists, attorneys, chemists and chemical engineers, MSDS experts and EH&S systems consultants.
3E's services offer a cost effective program for global regulatory compliance management by alleviating the pain, managing risk, increasing the efficiency and enhancing staff productivity and enabling EH&S professionals to focus on more strategic functions. Today more than 7,000 customers have partnered with 3E including Costco Wholesale Corporation, America West, Eastman Chemical, Temple-Inland, Menasha and PacifiCorp. 3E was founded in 1988 and is the recipient of the 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006 Commitment to Worker Safety Awards in Online and MSDS Services from Compliance Magazine, which also recognized 3E Online-MSDS in 2005 with an Award of Excellence for its Best of the Web Awards. The privately held company is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA with additional operations in Bethesda, MD, Kingsport, TN, Massillon, OH and Copenhagen, Denmark. For more information on 3E Company, visit www.3ecompany.com, send e-mail to info@3ecompany.com or call 800-360-3220, 760-602-8700 or, in Europe, +45 70 22 81 70.