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• 03/27/2025LEAD BATTERIES: OUT OF CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRODUCTS SAFETY PROGRAM
Battery Council International (BCI) is very pleased to report that on Dec. 26, 2024, the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) issued its final decision document confirming the Department’s decision to not regulate lead batteries under the state’s Safer Consumer Products (SCP) Program.
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• 03/26/2025GLATFLETER NOW IS MAGNERA – PASTING PAPERS
The new company Magnera was launched on November 4th, resulting from the merger of Glatfelter, a traditional supplier of packing paper for the battery industry, with the HHNF division of Berry, another paper company.
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• 03/11/2025THE 7 PLAGUES OF QUALITY PROGRAMS
The last two decades of the last century were effervescent in Brazilian industry with the spread of Quality Management, Total Quality and the emergence of ISO-9000.
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• 03/10/2025CLÓVIS AUGUSTO FREY
Pb Magazine regrets and records that Clóvis Augusto Cardoso Frey left us at the end of October. Born in Catanduva, SP, he was a materials engineer from UFSCar and co-founded the lead recycling company Frey & Stuchi in 1981, alongside his father-in-law, Mr. Alcides Stuchi (in memoriam).
