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On September 30, 2022, California's governor signed Assembly Bill 1817, enacting a law to restrict PFAS in a range of textile products. The law would prohibit, beginning January 1, 2025, a person from manufacturing, distributing, selling, or offering for sale in the state a new textile article that contains regulated perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

With the end of the year just a few months away, we’re looking ahead to our final Quality courses for 2022 – including Core Tools certification exams, IATF 16949 3^rd Party New Auditor Training, and more.

How much do you know about the chemical regulations impacting your company’s daily business? For example, if you ship to Europe, did you know you not only have to submit to IMDS, but to SCIP as well?

Developed in collaboration with industry experts from OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, and molding suppliers, the CQI-30 Special Process: Rubber Processing System Assessment – Mixing & Molding provides a common approach to a rubber mixing and molding management system for automotive production and service part organizations.

The focus of this year’s summit is “the future,” and what’s on the horizon for the automotive supply chain. Attendees will have the rare opportunity to meet the changemakers, innovators, and leaders that drive new technologies that may sound like science fiction, but are already starting to show up everywhere – from the production line to behind the wheel.

MMOG/LE – the Global Materials Management Operational Guidelines/Logistical Evaluation – has long been an industry proven and trusted resource, supporting organizations’ efforts to improve supply chain efficiency and accuracy while reducing costs, errors and waste.

Human trafficking victims are often held in slave-like conditions and forced to work in the sex trade or other servitude. One international organization estimated about 25 million people were trafficked in 2016.

As our opening keynote for this year’s Quality Summit, Chris Mailloux brings insights from nearly thirty years of experience with General Motors, spanning back to his initial role in Opel Espana introducing lean manufacturing principles in a high-volume manufacturing facility.

CTPAT has embarked on a journey over the previous four years to reinvigorate Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Trade Compliance efforts. In close collaboration with private industry and best practices put forth by international trade groups, such as the World Customs Organization (WCO), CTPAT has established a program that is equipped to be the global standard for Trade Compliance.

ILAB publishes three reports on international child labor and forced labor that serve as valuable resources for research, advocacy, government action and corporate responsibility. These reports are The Department of Labor's Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor; the List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor; and the List of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor. Each of these reports has a distinct mandate, focus and set of implications, but taken collectively, they document the current situation of child labor, forced labor and forced child labor around the world.