Operators in California Reminded of Prop 65 Settlement Agreements

SGS is advising companies operating in California, USA, to stay informed on settlement agreements being made in relation to a variety of substances under California Proposition 65 (Prop 65).

Settle agreements exist between two parties and are not legally binding on businesses not named within the settlement. However, it is advisable for companies operating in California to use them as a guide to avoid future legal problems.

Settlement agreements involve a variety of consumer products and the substances:

  • Lead and its compounds
  • Phthalates:
    1. Butyl benzyl phthalate (BBP)
    2. Di-n-butyl phthalate (DBP)
    3. Di-n-hexyl phthalate (DnHP)
    4. Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP)
    5. Di-isodecyl phthalate (DIDP)
    6. Diisononyl phthalate (DINP)

There have also been several settlement agreements covering only the phthalates DINP and DEHP.

Consumer products covered in these settlement agreements include:

  • Phthalates (various):
    1. Beauty accessories made with vinyl components
    2. Car mounts with suction cup
    3. PVC air hose
  • Lead and its compounds:
    1. Brass products – mailboxes, hose repair menders, musical mouthpieces
    2. Diving weights
    3. Handheld luggage with PVC handgrips
  • DINP (only):
    1. Boarding pass holders
    2. Circular knitting needles
    3. Watch bands
  • DEHP (only):
    1. Blenders
    2. Life vests
    3. Pet raincoats

The variety of consumer products included in these settlement agreements demonstrates how vigilant manufacturers and suppliers operating in California must remain.

Prop 65, or the ‘Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986’, is a unique piece of legislation passed in November 1986. It requires the state to maintain a list of chemicals (Prop 65 List) known to cause cancer, birth defects and/or reproductive harm. Unless exempted, businesses operating in California must provide ‘a clear and reasonable warning’ (Prop 65 Warning) before knowingly and intentionally exposing anyone to a substance on the Prop 65 List, which now contains around 900 chemicals. Companies have twelve months to comply with this requirement once a substance is included in the Prop 65 List.

Businesses wishing to learn more about Prop 65 settlement agreements, including lists of some of the the consumer products involved, should view SGS SafeGuards:

SGS Prop 65 Services

With a global network of laboratories, SGS can offer comprehensive testing, product assessment and consultancy services related to California Proposition 65. SGS can assist your risk management strategy in consumer goods, such as DIYs, electrical and electronics, hardgoods products, juvenile products, and textile & toy products. Learn more about SGS’s Prop 65 Services.

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For further information contact:

Hing Wo Tsang

Global Information and Innovation Manager

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About SGS

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COVID 19 Pandemic Puts Spotlight On The Importance of Brands Having Online Presence

According to McKinsey Digital, one of the best ways to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic would be a digital recovery. Whether it’s web hostingweb Design, digital marketing, or search optimization engine (SEO), hiring the right people to help you cope up is crucial.

For the past year, there has been an evident and rapid transition from traditional to digital marketing that was highly driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, the majority of C-suite executives have made efforts to digitalize some part of their business operations.

However, it seems that businesses who, up until now, have only been using traditional marketing tactics to attract customers are now having a hard time coping up.

It’s also important to take into account that hard marketing no longer works today. With the advancement of technological innovations, more and more people have shorter attention spans. Therefore, if you’re working on your web design and web hosting, be sure that you also consider the content that you are putting out there.

Digital solutions provide greater resiliency even in the face of a pandemic. It would be a great investment to hire professionals and experts who deal with digital marketing, SEO, web hosting, web design, and other relevant tech people so that you can not only recover faster but also be on the good side of security advantage.

You need a web design that provides results. You wouldn’t want to neglect this as adapting requires you to outsource people who are more knowledgeable on the latest Google algorithms and digital trends.

As stay-at-home orders are still in place, improving your digital business operations not only prevents your business from falling apart during this pandemic but also helps you cope up with the ever-changing market.

Of course, we understand that business decisions involving money should be backed up by relevant data. McKinsey Digital has provided a 90-day recovery plan that highly focuses on digitalizing most of your business processes. It was mentioned in the article that since remote workers have skyrocketed during the lockdowns, it has become much easier to find people and hire them at such affordable rates.

In addition, McKinsey Digital has also shown data on how US consumers are utilizing digital channels more and more. With this in mind, if you want to market your products you must do so in places they frequent, which is online. Again, we couldn’t stress this enough - adapting to a more digital business operation can be challenging.

Why you should hire Site Ants for your web design and web hosting needs!

We can walk you through the process of not only bouncing back from the tragedy that is the COVID-19 pandemic but also shows you a way to tap a market you never thought was possible. Technology was given to us for a reason. Make sure you utilize it to your advantage.

We offer a variety of services from IT to design that will help your online business run smoothly. You may contact us at (02) 8036 6668 for more information.

Norwalk Insurance Agency Educates On The Cost of Contractors Insurance

Norwalk, Connecticut (release-news ) January 20, 2021 - JMG Insurance, a Norwalk specialty insurance agency, offers readers some valuable information regarding how much contractors insurance costs. The new article is guided by the insurance experts at JMG who have extensive experience helping clients find the perfectly priced plan for their needs. They have designed this new article to help readers get a better idea of what factors will affect the cost of contractor's insurance the most.

JMG Insurance offers readers some valuable information that explains how to calculate what the cost of contractor's insurance may potentially be. In the article, they explain what contractors insurance is before getting into the things that affect their cost. Some of the factors they go over include the number of employees, the types of contracting jobs, the risks associated with services, and others. They hope that this article will help contractors searching for insurance understand what to expect while also demonstrating the importance of working with experts.

While this new article focuses on explaining how to calculate the cost of contractor's insurance, JMG's website offers visitors more information regarding their team, experience, as well as a full list of service offerings. JMG offers personal, business, and specialty insurance that helps clients get the protection they need at the best possible rate. They offer thorough insurance plans for business owners, contractors, errors and omissions, general liability, group benefits, construction companies, and more. Their agency was built on the principles of providing superior customer service and quality insurance solutions for their clients, and they work hard to uphold these values. Their team strives to make the insurance process as simple as possible for every client.

With the addition of this new article, the team at JMG hopes that contractors will have a better understanding of what factors will affect how much a comprehensive insurance plan will cost. For more information, reach out to the qualified contractor insurance experts at JMG today at 1-844-304-7332 or visit their website at https://jmg.com/. Their offices are located at 29 Haviland Street in Norwalk, Connecticut 06854.

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StoneFly achieves Gold ProPartner Status from Veeam

Hayward, CA USA – December, 2020 – StoneFly, Inc. the original innovator of the iSCSI protocol and a leading manufacturer of storage, hyperconverged, backup and DR solutions, announced today that they have been invited to be a Veeam Gold ProPartner. John Harris, StoneFly’s Director of North American Sales, mentioned at StoneFly’s Inaugural Gold ProPartner meeting that this collaboration level only further signals StoneFly’s strong partnership with Veeam and the strength of its fully turnkey Veeam integrated appliance.

In addition to being a Gold ProPartner, StoneFly is also a Veeam Silver Cloud Service Provider (CSP), and a Veeam Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) with product offerings that include Veeam cloud connect licenses that leverage StoneFly cloud storage, purpose-built Veeam-ready backup & DR appliances with Veeam-ready repository and Veeam-ready object status, and budget-friendly miniBackup appliances with Veeam for small and medium sized business (SMBs), remote branches, home offices, and employees working from home.

With StoneFly’s enterprise products that leverage Veeam’s backup and replication software, SMBs, SMEs, and large organizations can:

  • Set up backup and DR for mission-critical on-premises, virtual, and cloud workloads
  • Provision highly secure immutable target storage repositories for Veeam backups, snapshots, and replicas using air-gap, WORM, and S3 object lockdown.
  • Configure 1-click direct restore to Azure, AWS, or StoneFly private cloud - in the event of a disaster.
  • Replicate volumes, in real-time, to StoneFly private cloud. Spin up VMs directly in StoneFly private cloud in the event of a disaster (cloud disaster recovery).
  • Directly spin up Virtual Machines (VMs) on StoneFly’s Veeam-ready backup & DR appliance for instant recovery (near-zero RTPOs).
  • Enhance storage space utilization, on-premises and cloud, with advanced data services like deduplication, thin provisioning, automated storage tiering, and FlashCache SSD caching.
  • And more!

Limited time discounts: To celebrate the Gold ProPartner status, StoneFly is offering special discounts on all Veeam related products for a limited time. For more information, contact StoneFly sales by visiting StoneFly website or call +1 510 265 1616. 

About StoneFly, Inc.

StoneFly Inc., headquartered in California, was founded to deliver upon the vision of simple and affordable storage optimization and disaster recovery protection through IP SAN solutions. StoneFly is a leading manufacturer of high-performance network-attached storage (NAS), storage area networks (SAN) – iSCSI systems, hyperconverged systems, and RAID systems. StoneFly’s range of enterprise products also includes cloud storage solutions, cloud storage gateway solutions, and data migration services for enterprise workloads.

Tremend continues its international expansion strategy and opens an office in Luxembourg

Tremend, one of the fastest-growing tech companies in the region in Deloitte and Financial Times 1000 Europe rankings, opens an office in Luxembourg, strengthening its position in the Benelux area. Thus, the company reaffirms its position as a top European technology provider and its strategic commitment to this market.

 

The new office will be coordinated by Ștefan Morcov, who will take the role of Managing Director of Tremend Benelux. He joined Tremend in 2018, as a Senior Partner and has been involved in setting up new business units, such as eLearning and international public sector institutions. Ștefan Morcov brings 20 years of experience in software engineering, management, and business development, including with the European Commission, to the role.

 

“The new office will allow us to be closer to our customers, and meet their specific needs with a personalized approach and advanced technical expertise. Tremend Benelux will focus on European Union projects, but also on solutions for the private sector, from various industries such as eCommerce, retail, and telecom. Our Luxembourg office will be included in our R&D strategy, supporting the development of new products and know-how. We are a pure-breed engineering organization and we are committed to maintaining excellence and innovation in all the markets we operate in”, says Ștefan Morcov, Managing Director, Tremend Benelux.

 

Through its crossroads position, the Luxembourg office will also reach customers from neighboring countries such as Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands, thus expanding Tremend’s business in Western Europe with digital transformation and innovation projects. 

 

The new branch will continue to focus on growing the portfolio of projects with the European Commission and other international institutions. In 2020, 13.5% of the company's turnover came from projects for the European Commission. Tremend also estimates 7 million EURO revenues from this vertical in 2021. 

 

For the upcoming period, Tremend will concentrate on consolidating its new branch in terms of delivery management, software engineering and business development. 


Tremend was founded by Ioan Cocan and Marius Hanganu in 2005, following their own practical experience in Silicon Valley. The company sustained a solid growth rate, reporting 20 million EURO revenues for 2020. It currently operates offices based in Belgium, Luxembourg, UK and the USA and two development centers in Romania. 

"Tremend's international expansion came naturally with the talent, passion, and expertise of our team. We will continue to implement our long term strategic development plan for expanding on new verticals, in new territories, by addressing new areas and additional products. Our recent advancements include partnerships with major technology suppliers, such as Salesforce, Microsoft, and Amazon, the development of new products such as TORP, our leading solution for finance, healthcare, utilities, and telecom. We are investing in our team's professional development of our team, as well as in key emerging technologies research, such as IoT, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and biometrics”, mentions Marius Hanganu, Managing Partner, Tremend.

About Tremend

Tremend has 15 years of experience in offering complex software engineering and consultancy services, implementing over 700 large projects for top companies in industries such as finance, telecom, banking, automotive, and medical services. The company uses the most advanced technologies of the moment, from AI and Machine Learning to IoT and Microservices. In 2020, Tremend was included in Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA, was recently awarded the Impact Star recognition by Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Central Europe 2020 for its innovation commitment and positive impact on society, and has entered for the fourth time consecutively in FT1000 - Europe’s Fastest-Growing Companies. Over the years, Tremend was included two times, successively, in Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Central Europe, the ranking of the most dynamic technology-oriented companies in the region, and two times in INC 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in Europe. Tremend has offices in Romania, in Bucharest & Brasov, in Atlanta, USA, in Brussels, Belgium, in London, UK and Luxembourg. 

More info on  www.tremend.com.

 

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