GoodBye Chain Group

The GoodBye Chain Group (GCG) specializes in environmental regulation compliance consulting, training and software tools to reduce risks and costs, while increasing revenues and competitive advantage. Our clients are electronics companies that need to comply with RoHS, WEEE and other global legislation, create a strategy and roadmap for supply chain readiness, and implement a comprehensive, substance-level data collection program. Our portfolio includes:

� Compliance Strategies: RoHS/WEEE Risk Assessment�, Compliance Gap Analysis

� Compliance Implementation: RoHS/WEEE Compliance Roadmap, RoHS/WEEE Executive Training, Data Collection and Declaration Training, Compliance Implementation Program (CIP�)

� Software Tools and Technical Expertise: RoHS-WEEE.NET Software License Package, User Training, Lead-free Transition

� Compliance Advisories and Updates: Quarterly Newsletter, The �Advisor�

Specialists in complying with Extended Producer Responsibility legislation. The GoodBye Chain Group specializes in compliance with an emerging category of environmental legislation globally: Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Directives.

In particular, GCG specializes in the European Union�s Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and Restrictions on the Use of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directives, as well as with similar legislation in North America, Japan, China and other geographies. It is our sole business focus. We have devoted nearly three years to working both with individual companies who are struggling with compliance and with industry associations like NEMI who are providing excellent guidance. As such, we believe we can offer companies the most comprehensive set of services that cover their obligations under both Directives.

The Term �Goodbye Chain.� From its inception in 2002, GCG has linked environmental compliance with business opportunity. The term �goodbye chain� refers to the turning of WEEE-like waste streams into revenue streams. And, today, our corporate mission is to help other companies to capitalize on similar opportunities with enacted Directives like RoHS and Packaging and with proposed legislation like the Energy Using Products (EuP) and Integrated Product Policy (IPP) Directives. Our tag line � �from liability to compliance to competitive advantage� � summarises this approach.

A 360 Degree Approach to Compliance. In line with linking environmental compliance and business opportunity, GCG can help you to understand more fully the broader regulatory picture and where it is driving electronics manufacturing; to develop appropriate compliance-related strategies that capitalize on that broader regulatory picture; and to re-align organizational structures, implement business processes and refine technical areas.

In addition to the above, GCG also provides companies with a multi-functional RoHS Risk Assessment. Based on this Assessment, GCG prepares a function-by-function Gap Analysis and Compliance Roadmap.

RoHS-WEEE.NET Value-added Reseller. In building its business, GCG has developed its own domain expertise in RoHS-compliance activities. The company was responsible for the original concept and design of the RoHS module within RoHS-WEEE.NET. This includes such functionality as the data collection hierarchical tree structure and Joint Industry Guide (JIG) required fields, the integration of the JIG �A� and �B� list standards, the Product Library with the red light/green light metaphor, the Advisor, and the certification and declaration forms. This expertise goes hand-in-glove with its Pack.NET reseller agreement with Foresite Systems. Together, the two companies offer the only complete RoHS solution on the market.

The �Group� in The GoodBye Chain Group refers to our team of engineers, lead-free specialists, supply chain project managers, legislative specialists, and so on, from whom we can draw the expertise needed by companies at any point in the compliance process. Further, The GoodBye Chain Group extends it reach through participation in a �Compliance Alliance� with other compliance oriented companies, who draw upon each other to solve customer problems. In this vein, GCG could provide, you, as needed, specialized consulting in lead-free manufacturing, third-party laboratory certification of product composition and methods for reducing packaging costs, fees and penalties.