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Eaton Launches Industry`s First Fully Integrated Arc-Resistant Medium Voltage Drive to Enhance Worker Safety and Equipment Protection
Power management company Eaton today announced the SC9000TM encapsulated powerpole (EP) arc-resistant drive, designed to control, minimize and prevent arc faults for enhanced personnel protection in global oil and gas, mining, utility and water, wastewater, and other critical applications. The solution builds on Eaton’s highly reliable and award winning SC9000 EP platform of adjustable ...
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EP Committee Study on Legislative Areas of the TTIP Addresses Nanomaterials
The European Parliament (EP) Committee on Environment, Public Health, and Food Safety (ENVI) has posted a study entitled ENVI Relevant Legislative Areas of the EU-US Trade and Investment Partnership Negotiations (TTIP). The study analyzes the main differences between European Union (EU) and U.S. legislation in eight areas: human medicines and medical devices; cosmetics; food and nutrition; ...
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MEPs ban cadmium from power tool batteries and mercury from button cells
A law banning the toxic substance cadmium from portable batteries and accumulators used in cordless power tools such as drills, screwdrivers or saws, was voted by Parliament on Thursday. This ban, already agreed with EU ministers, will apply from 31 December 2016. MEPs also inserted a clause banning mercury from button cells from autumn 2015. "I am confident that the adopted measures will ...
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The Acta Group, L.L.C. and The Acta Group EU, Ltd extend their best wishes to our clients and many friends and we wish you and your family a happy, healthy, and peaceful new year
TSCA/FIFRA/NTP/EPCRA EPA Denies Second Request Made In TSCA Section 21 Petition Regarding Lead: On November 17, 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its decision to deny the second request made by certain petitioners seeking a ban on lead in fishing sinkers. 75 Fed. Reg. 76246. EPA determined that the petitioners failed to demonstrate that the action requested -- a uniform ...
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Recent federal developments
It has come to our attention that, regrettably, the text of two different memoranda was inadvertently collapsed into a single item noted in the Recent Federal Developments update dated December 15, 2010. The text that was combined appears in the USDA ORACBA Risk Forum Discusses Moving Beyond Nanogeneralities item. Text that inadvertently made its way into that item is from a memo regarding the ...
By Acta Group
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Neste Oil's Financial statements for 2009
Stock Exchange ReleaseNeste Oil Corporation4 February 2010 at 9.00 a.m. (EET) - Full-year comparable operating profit of EUR 116 million (2008: 602 million)- The year ended with a Q4 comparable operating profit of EUR -29 million, including a negative impact of EUR 30 million from non-recurring items 2009 in brief:A new operational model was introduced, aimed to improve implementation of our ...
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MEPs give first reactions to climate change and energy package
MEPs broadly supported the wide-ranging and ambitious proposals launched by the Commission to tackle climate saying they represented an economic opportunity for the EU at a special EP plenary session in Brussels. However, some MEPs raised concerns on the initial Commission target for biofuels and expressed fears that jobs may be exported to parts of the world with no binding targets for carbon ...
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