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Since 1999

EnviroNmentAL Product Compliance

imds professional supports companies in meeting the requirements for material and product conformity sustainably and safely and in complying with all specifications.. We offer three core services: consulting, support, and training. These services can be customized to ensure your company fully complies with all types of environmental legislation, directives, guidelines, and specific customer requirements. As a leading service provider in the field of Product Environmental Compliance, we can optimize your company’s environmental compliance programs, freeing you up to focus on your key priorities. Our unbiased, targeted advice, customized services and training courses ensure you remain competitive in the face of increasing regulatory requirements. Small to medium-sized operations and businesses throughout the world from the manufacturing and processing sector have been relying on our expertise since 1999. Choose from our one-stop service portfolio or versatile modular solutions. Let us take care of all or some of your Product Compliance Management requirements – on either an on-going or project-by-project basis. Contact us for a free initial consultation or check out our upcoming training courses.

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Your specialist for environmental compliance

We provide consultation, education and individual support

Regulation and compliance represent some of the most significant risks in the market. The basic legal principles are constantly changing, and customers are increasingly aware of the environmental and health impacts of the products they buy. Work with our team of experts to gain highly effective strategic advice on materials and product safety. Systematically developing your environmental compliance programs will not only lighten your workload and provide peace of mind but will add significant value to your company. We offer a series of flexible consulting, support, and training modules which can be combined into a complete service package to suit your requirements.

Consulting

Our consulting services ensure you fully meet your legal environmental and product conformity obligations, offering you peace of mind and other valuable benefits. We can help set clear criteria that will support decision-making. We can also define and structure your operational processes across all aspects of your business, from executive and strategic management to purchasing, quality assurance, product management, and administration. We will design and optimize your business processes so that they are aligned to your company structure and flow efficiently. We also offer unbiased and independent advice on which databases, software, tools, and solutions to use to smooth your workflow and ensure you have all the data you need at your fingertips about the entire supply chain.

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Support Services

Have you ever considered outsourcing all your product compliance and materials reporting tasks? If so, you’ve come to the right place. We offer a comprehensive range of support services that can be fully customized to meet your compliance needs. They can be provided as a one-stop service or on a modular basis. We can help you with a specific project or provide long-term support – the choice is yours. We take an agile and proactive approach, are quality-assured, and operate with full cost transparency – our services are generally much more cost effective than carrying out the work yourself. One of our dedicated experts is always on hand to provide reliable project support. What’s more, we can provide these services in multiple languages. We can also set up a project management dashboard to keep you fully updated on project progress.

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Training

Our wide range of courses, training sessions and many other learning formats are available throughout the world via our ipCampus learning platform. We provide a service you can truly rely on thanks to our decades of experience as an internationally recognized training partner. We are also part of a strong network of industry experts and training providers. We are the market leader in Europe for IMDS and CDX and are certified by the originator of the IMDS database, DXC Technology. Highly experienced specialists will teach you the basic legal principles and equip you with practical knowledge, enabling you to confidently deal with all aspects of product-based environmental management and materials reporting. Our courses are delivered in an easy-to-access format and by native speakers in a range of languages. Please see our training course schedule for in-person courses, online courses, and certified supplementary training.

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Consulting

Our consulting services ensure you fully meet your legal environmental and product conformity obligations, offering you peace of mind and other valuable benefits. We can help set clear criteria that will support decision-making. We can also define and structure your operational processes across all aspects of your business, from executive and strategic management to purchasing, quality assurance, product management, and administration. We will design and optimize your business processes so that they are aligned to your company structure and flow efficiently. We also offer unbiased and independent advice on which databases, software, tools, and solutions to use to smooth your workflow and ensure you have all the data you need at your fingertips about the entire supply chain.

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Support Services

Have you ever considered outsourcing all your product compliance and materials reporting tasks? If so, you’ve come to the right place. We offer a comprehensive range of support services that can be fully customized to meet your compliance needs. They can be provided as a one-stop service or on a modular basis. We can help you with a specific project or provide long-term support – the choice is yours. We take an agile and proactive approach, are quality-assured, and operate with full cost transparency – our services are generally much more cost effective than carrying out the work yourself. One of our dedicated experts is always on hand to provide reliable project support. What’s more, we can provide these services in multiple languages. We can also set up a project management dashboard to keep you fully updated on project progress.

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Training

Our wide range of courses, training sessions and many other learning formats are available throughout the world via our ipCampus learning platform. We provide a service you can truly rely on thanks to our decades of experience as an internationally recognized training partner. We are also part of a strong network of industry experts and training providers. We are the market leader in Europe for IMDS and CDX and are certified by the originator of the IMDS database, DXC Technology. Highly experienced specialists will teach you the basic legal principles and equip you with practical knowledge, enabling you to confidently deal with all aspects of product-based environmental management and materials reporting. Our courses are delivered in an easy-to-access format and by native speakers in a range of languages. Please see our training course schedule for in-person courses, online courses, and certified supplementary training.

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Compliance specialisms

Product Environmental Compliance
Management

Our experienced specialists provide expert support to ease you through the complex decision-making processes involved in environmental data reporting and materials data management. If you work in procurement, quality, or R&D, you will have to deal with a wide range of guidelines, regulations, and requirements relating to materials and product conformity. We can provide senior management and those responsible for product compliance with all the information they need to make the right decisions. We pride ourselves on our responsiveness and will get back to you quickly whether you are in the early stages of a project or working through a critical phase. We would also welcome the opportunity to discuss with you the benefits of our process management services which we can provide on an ongoing basis.

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IMDS

The International Material Data System (IMDS) is the global standard for materials reporting in the automotive sector. The IMDS allows you to enter materials data quickly and securely to ensure your company complies with the End-of-Life Vehicles Directive (ELV). As a specialist IMDS services company, we offer a comprehensive range of services to support your compliance needs. You can call on us to deal with a wide range of IMDS-related tasks. We can handle materials research, IMDS data entry (IMDS listing), materials data maintenance, and IMDS data checking. What’s more, we can provide high-quality training for your employees and work directly with your suppliers and customers to ensure all your reporting tasks and processes are managed efficiently.

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CAMDS

China has launched its own web-based platform for managing product data in the automotive industry. This is known as CAMDS (China Automotive Material Data System). It aims to ensure that manufacturers, suppliers, and importers comply with recycling and reuse requirements for automotive products listed in the CHINA ELV. CAMDS is a materials data system that has almost the same functionalities as the IMDS. It is based on version 7.0 of the IMDS but is designed and used in a slightly different way.

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REACH

REACH is the EU chemicals regulation and stands for “Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals”. The European chemicals regulation is designed to ensure that manufacturers and importers take responsibility for the safe handling of chemical substances and take this into account in material reporting. We support you with questions regarding REACH compliance, SVHC and the CLP Regulation/GHS Regulation.

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SCIP database

The aim of the SCIP database is to help waste management companies identify and recycle articles that contain substances that are harmful to the environment or human health. Its long-term goal is to find substitutes for Substances of Very High Concern (SVHCs). Information in the SCIP database is also available to consumers so that they can take sustainability into account when making purchases. Meeting SCIP reporting obligations can be very challenging for many businesses. But there’s no need to struggle alone. We can provide expert advice and a range of professional services that will make these challenges a thing of the past.

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CDX

Products must comply with countless legal requirements regarding their composition in every country and every industry. This is where the CDX System from DXC Technology comes in. It simplifies procedures so you can ensure you are complying with product compliance regulations, which in turn protects people and our environment, prevents waste, and improves recycling. Materials reporting is carried out across the entire supply chain and is constantly updated. This makes it increasingly difficult to maintain product compliance. The CDX system provides simplified solutions to help you keep on top of your compliance obligations.

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ROHS

RoHS compliance primarily affects manufacturers and importers of electrical and electronic equipment. Numerous exceptions, which are permitted as special national regulations and are subject to change, complicate implementation. imds professional will be happy to advise you on all questions regarding compliance with the RoHS Directive and help you with the RoHS Declaration of Conformity. Engage our Expert:in if you want to optimize internal processes and efficiently improve your data quality or outsource RoHS tasks.

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Online magazine ipJournal

Product Environmental Compliance News

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In our online magazine “ipJournal” you will find current information about professional material data and environmental data management.

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We pass on our expert knowledge of Product Environmental Compliance to you in our training courses. We organize expert panels, seminars (present and online) and in-house training for optimal data management and material reporting. Click here for the training schedule.

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DXC Technology Company

imds professional is an authorized training partner of DXC.technology (formerly HPE) for the IMDS and the CDX in Europe. Since the introduction of the IMDS (International Material Data System) in 1999, imds professional has been conducting training courses as a partner of DXC.technology.
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FIEV

imds professional is the official training partner for IMDS and Material Compliance of the French FIEV. The FIEV bundles the interests of the French automotive suppliers.
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Fraunhofer Institute

Against the backdrop of increasingly scarce and expensive raw materials, the Fraunhofer Project Group for Materials Recycling and Resource Strategy IWKS was established in 2011 under the umbrella of the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC.
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Automotive Cluster

The Automotive Cluster RheinMainNeckar is a cluster of companies. The cluster was founded in September 2003 and bundles competencies of specialized companies in the automotive supply industry.
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VDE

Since 1920, the VDE Testing and Certification Institute has been awarding the VDE mark to enable consumers, manufacturers and installers to identify safe products that comply with national and international standards and legal directives.
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Recommendations and feedback

Comments from our customers

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We needed the service for creating material data sheets in order to create a basis on which we could continue to work independently after very intensive training. With imds professional, we found exactly the right partner for this.

Large Tier1 supplier

Thank you very much imds professional. I would like to thank you personally for the last IMDS webinar. For me, your knowledge, expertise and patience were outstanding (even with the connection issues on day 2). I would recommend your services to any company and wish you all the best.

Employee of a British provider of environmental services

Due to time constraints, the webinar was a good alternative to a face-to-face event for us. The technology worked perfectly and the speaker was able to answer all our questions individually. I can recommend the webinar, but would extend it by one day to be able to go even further in depth. In order to be able to use the IMDS properly, many details have to be explained in detail.

Montse GonzalesComercial Arque, S.A

"I like the exchange in this relaxed atmosphere."

"The concept with the alternation between lectures and topic tables is very good."

"Very helpful exchange of experience and information."

"It allows direct contact with experts and developers of IMDS."

Comments on the IMDS user meeting (1)

"Good opportunity for professional exchange and networking."

"Interesting exchange, different perspectives, overall a successful, entertaining, informative day."

"A very good concept, especially the pre-event program was a very good icebreaker."

"Although it was a virtual event, it was very well organized and the content what I expected."

Comments on the IMDS user meeting (2)

„Very informative and helpful.“

„Great topics, good explanations.“

„Over all a good session, many questions were answered by the experts.“

„The moderator and speaker were very pleasant, explained the material well, read the questions one by one from the participants and gave clear answers.“

„I learned a lot from very skilled people, great thing.“

Comments on the IMDS user meeting (3)

"Pleasant lecturer. The manner and style of the lecture were very good."

"Everything was well understood. Since the time is very tight, it is good that you get the training as a PDF afterwards. Otherwise everything top! Thanks very much again."

"C'est déjà excellent."

Comments from training participants (1)

"Your trainings are top notch. Your instructor deserves a 1 with an asterisk. He leads through the trainings with high professional competence, wit and looseness and makes them lively."

Stefan BohnerOTTO EGELHOF GmbH & Co. KG

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