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Events 12 September 2019
ARGE’s Annual Conference 2019 Bonn, presentations available
On the downloads page of this website you can find and download the presentations given on our Annual Conference on Sep 4th and 5th, 2019 in Bonn.
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Events 20 May 2019
ARGE Annual Conference in September 2019 in Bonn
The invitation for the ARGE 67th ARGE Conference is now availabe on this webpage. Please use the registration form to make your registration.
Standardisation 29 April 2019
Use of Nickel for keys
Since Q1/2017 ARGE has been lobbying against the proposal of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) to restrict the use of nickel in keys. Recently, the European Commission and ECHA decided to discontinue the preparation of a guideline which would have extended the presently existing restriction of the use of nickel. As a result, the threat…
Legislation 29 April 2019
ARGE supports its members in complying with EU’s REACH regulation
REACH is a regulation of the European Union, adopted to improve the protection of human health and the environment from the risks that can be posed by chemicals. REACH is considered to be one of the most complex EU regulations which enterprises within the EU/ EEC have to comply with. The related tasks for SMEs…
Legislation 29 April 2019
ARGE’s recommendation concerning lead being on REACH’s SVHC Candidate List
On 27th June 2018 the heavy metal lead (Pb) was added to REACH’s ‘Candidate List of Substances of Very High Concern for authorisation’ (‘Candidate List of SVHC’). This triggered certain duties and obligations under the REACH regulation for many companies, including manufacturers of building hardware. In relation to building hardware products, lead is used frequently as…
Events 10 December 2018
Conference Delegates Confirm ARGE 2018 Event as a Success
Here at ARGE we value our members’ opinions and constantly look to improve our communications and the work we do. With this in mind we conducted a post-conference survey, to evaluate our annual event. We’re pleased to say the results are overwhelmingly positive… More than 60% of participants responded to the survey, which is very…
Events 28 November 2018
ARGE Conference Survey complete
– ARGE’s Annual Conference 2018 in Rotterdam turned out objectively as a success. More than 60% of the Conference participants took part at the “after-conference-survey” which was launched short after the event in September. The overall satisfaction with the conference was evaluated as “Excellent” by about 64% of the votes and as “Good” by another…
Sustainability 16 October 2018
ARGE involved with CEN/TC350
ARGE was appointed as Liaison member of CEN/TC350 and WG3 of TC350. The Technical committe deals with the sustainability of construction works. Among other items, WG3 is the group preparing EN15804 for “Environmental Product Declarations”. As reported on the 2018 conference, the standard is under review at his time. The requirements will be extended widely…
Events 16 October 2018
ARGE Conference Rotterdam, latest pictures available for download
We have now a second set of pictures available for download on the ARGE dropbox. It shows now pictures of most of our representatives and presenters. This includes pictures of the presentation of keynote speaker Prof. J.P. Balkenende. For download please use link sent on September 19th.