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EU Product Compliance Overview & Tips for Buyers (Feat. Fredrik Grönkvist)

Sofeast CEO Renaud welcomes our friend Fredrik Grönkvist of Compliancegate.com to the show today to discuss all things EU product compliance. Fredrik provides a helpful overview of the common types of banned or restricted substances that you need to look … Continue reading

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How to Comply with CE and UKCA? [Podcast]

Renaud and Adrian discuss CE and UKCA compliance. These are EU and British regulations for product safety, health, and environmental requirements. If you sell products in these markets you’ll need to add the CE or UKCA mark to them, so … Continue reading

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Latest Asia Manufacturing Trends and Upcoming Regulations Overview (Dec ’22)

On December 13th 2022, our CEO Renaud joined Global Sources‘ Tom McGrenery for a fireside chat about some of the broad Asian manufacturing trends we’ve seen recently, as well as the new regulatory frameworks for manufacturing, new technologies or services. … Continue reading

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What is the EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation?

The European Union is getting serious about sustainability and is already working towards ‘becoming a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy where there are no net emissions of greenhouse gases in 2050 and where economic growth is decoupled from resource use.’ … Continue reading

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The EU Ecodesign Regulation Is Coming, But Are You Prepared? [Podcast part1]

Sofeast CEO Renaud is joined again by friend of the show and product compliance expert, Clive Greenwood of SMC GLOBAL Manufacturing Consultants, to talk about the new ‘Ecodesign for sustainable products regulation’ set to become law in 2023 that will … Continue reading

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