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AIAG and its member companies have worked collaboratively over many years to consistently offer new and eye-opening information to assist you and your company. Moving into 2021, our stated mission was to educate, inform, and advance transparency in the automotive supply chain continues.

As a member, you have much to contribute, and volunteering on an AIAG committee or work group gives your company a seat at the table and an influential voice in the discussion. The support of thousands of members and industry volunteers working together in a cooperative environment makes it possible for AIAG to create the guidelines and tools that result in streamlined processes and solutions to our industry’s pain points and challenges.

The world’s leading authority on climate science, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had not delivered a major report in seven years. But the installment released in August 2021 paints a dire picture of our future. 

On September 23, 2021, the U.S. EPA extended the reporting deadline for health and safety data on 20 high-priority chemicals and 30 organohalogens.

EPA issued a prepublication version of a rule that would extend the reporting and submission deadline for the Health and Safety Data Reporting rule under TSCA. The deadline is extended to December 1, 2021, for High Priority Substances (twenty), and to January 25, 2022, for the thirty (30) organohalogen flame retardants.

The CQI-11 Plating System Assessment, 3^rd edition was created to help automotive suppliers develop a plating management system based on the electroplating industry’s best practices.

Don’t miss out on these end-of-year training opportunities! Focusing on everything from the Quality Core Tools and special process system assessments, to IMDS and auditing, we've scheduled a wide range of courses this month to meet your needs.

Want to better understand the latest technologies in the returnable asset tracking space and how you can apply them to reduce error rate and better track your valuable returnable assets? We’ve got you covered! Our latest publication – Using RFID, BLE and LPWA Sensor Technology for Automated Asset Counting or Tracking – provides recommendations and guidelines for OEMs, tier-level suppliers, and service providers alike to gain and increase the continuity and quality of data across the automotive industry and throughout the supply chain.

The San Francisco International Airport (SFO) announced its participation in a global research collaboration spearheaded by United Against Slavery to fight human trafficking via the 2021 National Outreach Survey for Transportation (NOST) project. 

Hansen & Adkins Vice President of Operations Barry Williams began work in the automotive haul-away industry in 1984. He started as a quality claims supervisor and filled various positions in the company as he advanced, including director of safety and risk management, ISO 9000 manager, and driver trainer. In his current role, he grew the company from 33 trucks to its current 1,340 trucks. Williams also co-founded and leads the Auto Haulers Association of America in 2011 with Bill Fralic, which works to achieve higher pay for auto haul truck drivers to better attract the workforce to the industry. 

There are over 60 container ships full of import cargo stuck offshore of Los Angeles and Long Beach, but there are more than double that — 154 as of Friday — waiting to load export cargo off Shanghai and Ningbo in China, according to eeSea, a company that analyzes carrier schedules.