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For companies needing to comply with REACH, RoHS, WEEE and other global legislation, The GoodBye
Chain Group offers a portfolio of software products and consulting services that reduce risks and costs while
increasing revenues and competitive advantage. The GoodBye Chain Group Focus
In the last decade, governments realized that the costs of not addressing health and environmental problems
were increasingly greater than the costs of addressing them. As a result, we have seen far-reaching legislation
in the automotive, packaging and electronics industries. The GoodBye Chain Group specializes in solving the
vast array of organizational and technical challenges confronting the electronics industry in particular. These
challenges span the entire product life-cycle from design to disposal. They address every corporate function
from Engineering and Quality to Sourcing and Legal. They raise profound questions about risk-reporting and
risk-management. And they are only going to increase in both number and complexity over the next ten years. Leveraging The GoodBye Chain Group Portfolio
The GoodBye Chain Group provides a broad portfolio of consulting services and software products that
address the above challenges head-on.  On the enterprise level, the portfolio includes organizational strategies, risk-assessments, SWOT analyses,
tracking systems, training programs and compliance programs. These services help you to evolve business
processes and a roadmap that capitalize on rapidly emerging trends in regard to RoHS-compliance,
Total Quality Environmental Management (TQEM) practices and ‘cradle-to-cradle’ product life-cycle analyses.
In so doing, they help your company to be one of the ‘20% companies’ that capture 80% of the opportunity. On the technical level, the portfolio includes a comprehensive, substance-level data collection solution that
assists you in avoiding the dire consequences of REACH and RoHS non-compliance. The solution includes the
Material Declaration Wizard, Enterprise System (MDW-ES), an affordable software solution that enables you,
your suppliers, and your customers to easily collect, manage, and report on materials and substances for
compliance with the EU Registration, Evaluation, Authorisaton and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation
and Restriction on Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive. MDW-ES is standards-based, affordable, and
easily integrated with all ERP and PLM systems. MDW-ES is available as a multi-user enterprise version, a
single desktop workstation version, or as Green-ESsm, a hosted Software as a Service (SaaS). And it is supported
by project design and implementation programs, hands-on application workshops and supplier compliance
follow-up programs. We can also help you to implement a smooth lead-free transition and a robust product
testing and analysis program from liability …to compliance…to competitive advantage™. Supported by a Team of Experts
The GoodBye Chain Group is a team of veteran business leaders, scientists, quality engineers, software
developers, communications specialists and project managers. Team members average over 20 years
experience in organizations like Agilent, Alcatel, Apple, Barclay's Global Investors, BellSouth, Fairchild
Semiconductor, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, McKinsey, MCI, National
Semiconductor, Palm, Sony, Stanford Linear Accelerator, Sun and Texas Instruments. Each of our members joined the Group to pool their domain expertise in the service of solving today’s
unprecedented challenges. The company is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and has senior managers
throughout the U.S. and in Europe. It also has an extended network of related firms we call the Compliance Alliance. This network includes
organizations ranging from testing laboratories to international legal firms to regional manufacturing
assistance agencies. Initially, GCG focused on assisting companies to turn their waste streams (“goodbye chain”) into revenue streams.
Today, it is the only company with nine years experience/100% specialization in RoHS, REACH, WEEE, and other
Product Environmental Compliance Directives that provides a comprehensive solution of fully integrated product
environmental software, consulting, and BoM Management, all grounded in customer engagements. GCG has
worked with many customers in the high tech, medical, industrial, consumer, and other industry sub-sectors.
GCG’s MDW-ES software received SMT Magazine’s Vision Award for “Software” for two consecutive years. GCG
has conducted RoHS/WEEE trainings in China, Australia and Singapore, as well as North America; organized
eight RoHS workshops for the Surface Mount Technology Association; and co-authored a major report for the
National Institute of Standards and Technology. GCG also served on the IPC 1752 Working Committee for RoHS
and extending IPC 1752 and IPC 1752-A for REACH applicability. GCG was the only U.S. consulting company to
attend major WEEE conferences in Brussels and Prague, and was the only U.S. company invited to speak at an
EU stakeholder meeting in Italy regarding the Integrated Product Policy, in particular, the response of U.S. industry
to WEEE and RoHS compliance requirements. The GoodBye Chain Group can help your company to both understand the sweeping industry shifts and to
take advantage of them. In so doing, it reduces risk and costs …fosters innovation …creates opportunity …
and generates revenue. For a more information about The GoodBye Chain Group Products and Services, please contact us at
888.422.4246, Ext. 89 (1.888.GBChain).
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