Product Responsibility

Civilisation in the real sense consists, not in the multiplication of wants but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

-Mahatma Gandhi

Product Stamping

ASME Certification and accreditationASME StandardsBoiler and Pressure Vessel CertificationNuclear Material Organization CertificationBioprocessing Equipment CertificationNuclear Component CertificationReinforced Thermoset Plastic Corrosion-Resistant Equipment CertificationNuclear Quality Assurance (NQA-1) CertificationPersonnel Certification

National Board of Boiler and Pressure VesselNational Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Stamps & MarksR StampVR StampNR StampNB Mark

National Board of Boiler and Pressure VesselNational Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Stamps & MarksR StampVR StampNR StampNB Mark

Material safety Resource

Laboratory storage of chemicals

REACH

UN Hazard Identification Numbers, Classes and Packing Groups

International Material Database System (IMDS)

CONFLICT MINERALS

Conflict minerals reporting requirements were laid out in Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act and the subsequent release of the SEC Final Rule set up to help regulate this law. 

The intent of these conflict mineral reporting requirements are aimed at curbing funding for armed groups that commit violent human rights violations in certain parts of central Africa. Conflict mineral that require reporting under the Dodd-Frank Act are materials such as gold, wolframite, casserite, columbite-tantalite and their derivative metals, which include tin, tungsten and tantalum being sourced from mines under the control of violent forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) or the surrounding countries. 

Tin, tungsten, Tantalum and gold are used in many industrial components such as aerospace components with various applications. Under Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act all publicly-traded companies are required to report annually to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) whether they use conflict minerals that are “necessary to the functionality or production” of a product that they either manufacture, or contract to be manufactured. With the aerospace and defense industry's far reaching supply chain being comprised of both publicly held and privately owned companies, the industry remains active in finding cooperative ways to ensure regulatory compliance.

Innovation

1. People and the internet
2. Computing, communications and storage everywhere
3. The Internet of Things
4. Artificial intelligence (AI) and big data
5. The sharing economy and distributed trust
6. The digitization of matter