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Breathing Life into Compliance
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Sustainability and Compliance Trends Study
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Maximizing Products’ Sustainability Performance and Circularity with Digitalization – Part 2/3
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The new EU Regulation of Medical Devices – MDR
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ECHA drops one mandatory field for SCIP database reporting
SCIP database alpha testing and RoHS (2011/65/EU)
Homeland Security and Your Supply Chain
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Compliance or Sustainability – What is more important for businesses?
First glimpse at the SCIP database
How sustainable is a service or a product? Digitalization, IoT and Big Data are providing new possibilities for research
The Global Medical Device Industry – a spotlight on India and China
Medical Device Industry – Trends in 2020
Results from the ECHA workshops and new SCIP website launched
Going Beyond IMDS with iPoint Approval
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Conflict Minerals – Cobalt, EU-3TG and Sanctioned Entities
Enterprise Blockchain 2028
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iPoint participates in ECHA’s SCIP Database Kick-off meeting
How to collect information from your supply chain – Where an industry standard does not exist!
Why we built the iPoint Suite
Why we CARE – and YOU CARE ALREADY
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How digitalization and knowledge creates transparency for businesses
Why increasing market dynamics lead to complexity
Carbon Footprint of Electric Cars: Is E-Mobility Truly Sustainable?
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Cobalt Reporting via the iPoint SustainHub
4 new substances added to the Candidate List of substances of very high concern (SVHC) and important changes in the near future
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How to use Life Cycle Information to set AND reach your Sustainability Goals
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iPoint Provides Pilot Tool For EU LIFE Project AskREACH
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LCA of lithium-ion batteries – there’s more to it than you think
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Discrepancy of RoHS and REACH – Compliance Changes 2019
Exploring efficiency potentials in the recycling industry
German Battery Forum 2019: a round-up of congress highlights
Remarkable MFCA results in a German foundry
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The Sustainability & Compliance Trends Survey 2019
Customized Transparency with iPCA Web
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Material Flow Cost Accounting for strategic business decisions
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SustainHub Roadmap 2019
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Beyond the Isolated Approach: How to Better Optimise Resource Efficiency in the Chemical Industry
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iPoint Joins UN Global Compact
The new CSR Reporting Directive of the EU
Innovation Awards for iPoint
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