Are your products and services at risk?

Difficult questions face multi-national corporations in today’s challenging regulatory climate, as they strive to balance profitability with sustainability in emerging global markets. These include:

• How to maintain regulatory compliance worldwide?
• What’s needed to expand into Asian markets?
• What hazard classifications and warning labels will products and chemicals receive in Europe, North America and Asia?
• What constitutes a sound global chemicals management policy and an open but responsible communications plan?
• How to satisfy emerging regulatory requirements with fewer internal resources?
• What messages are Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs), High Production Volume Chemical Test Plans and Screening Information Data Sets sending to regulators and the public?

International business success now requires strategic global stewardship of chemicals and materials, products and packaging, and facilities and processes across life-cycles, e.g.: natural resource use, product design, formulation and manufacture, distribution, use, and disposal. Exponent works with companies to adopt a cost-effective, global approach to comprehensively address health, safety, and regulatory concerns, now and in the future.

Exponent can provide a multi-disciplinary team to address every aspect of product and chemical stewardship: from developing effective MSDSs to completing registrations in Asia; from preparing HPV Test Plans and SIDS Dossiers to alerting clients of emerging chemical issues; from conducting effective technical external relations programs to providing full product litigation support.

We provide unparalleled business understanding and professional experience in the health, environmental, foods, paper and chemical sciences, as well as capabilities in electrical, civil, environmental, mechanical, thermal and biomechanical engineering. Our programs and approaches parallel those of global corporate leaders in product and technology development, as many of our professionals hail from these same leading corporations. In short, Exponent extends dedicated corporate resources that are increasingly in short supply, enabling internal staff to focus on the most urgent and immediate business decisions at hand.

Exponent’s approach to global stewardship provides these tangible benefits in corporate profitability and success:

• Freedom to formulate, speed to market, and “continuing reinvention” to build and maintain market leadership.
• Leveraged opportunities for cost-effective ingredients, components, and technologies under challenging economic conditions.
• Expansion and growth across emerging international markets, even with tightened budgets and down-sized organizations.
• Value pricing to the consumer (i.e., superior performance at competitive cost).
• Consistent quality and performance to attract and maintain brand loyalty.
• Regulatory compliance or exceedance across all jurisdictions.
• Strong public image (i.e., as a responsible, environmentally sustainable company).

Exponent offers:

• Professional staff with career experience in Fortune 500 companies involved in energy and petrochemicals, industrial specialty chemicals, consumer products, agriculture and foods, electronics, pharmaceuticals, pesticides and automotive industries.
• Multi-disciplinary capabilities across health, safety, environmental, and regulatory professions, with over 200 MD’s and PhD’s in 14 distinct business practices.
• “On the ground” global presence through international offices and projects worldwide.
• Product design, risk assessment and litigation support services for most industrial, consumer and manufacturing product areas.

To meet your most urgent needs we provide:

• Regulatory compliance with MSDSs, OSHA/DOT Hazard Classifications and Labels, Permitting, Pre-manufacture Notifications, Import/Export Reporting, Toxic Release Inventories, Proposition 65 Requirements, SIDS Dossiers and HPV Test Plans.
• Chemical use and product registrations with supporting health and environmental assessments, modeled after those developed by Fortune 500 companies.
• Due diligence in corporate mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.
• Sound technical support of product efficacy, public health, and environmental claims.
• Litigation support and failure analysis for product liability, toxic tort, hazard assessments, and risk communication.

To meet your long-term growth needs we provide:

• Full support for Responsible Care and ISO 14000, including a sound Global Chemicals Management Plan and communications strategy.
• Innovative product design support (e.g., materials selection, process engineering, claim support, marketing) across industrial sectors, to “design problems out” well before commercialization.
• Regulatory guidance for accessing new markets in emerging countries including China, Japan and India.
• Integrated and globally harmonized management approaches to concurrently address emerging data and assessment requirements for U.S. High Production Volume Chemical Testing, the Canadian Domestic Substances List, and the likely impacts of the European Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) Program.
• Sustainability assessments based on in-depth life-cycle analysis, cost-benefits analysis, continuous improvement and responsible public communications.

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