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Uncategorised 14 June 2016
Booking Open For 2016 Conference
ARGE is pleased to release the official invite and registration form for this year’s annual conference. Both forms are available to download from the ARGE website. Hosted by UNIQ, the 64th ARGE Conference, held on 15th and 16th September in Le Touquet Plage, promises to be one of the most stimulating yet. Besides the Annual…
Uncategorised 04 May 2016
Defining and Deciding ARGE's Future
This year’s conference will help define the ARGE agenda and identify future opportunities and projects that can bring commercial value for ARGE members. As an association our real value is in having a relevant agenda that delivers tangible benefits to our members. When we introduced the importance of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) nearly four years…
Uncategorised 21 April 2016
Help Shape ARGE's Future
The Future Of ARGE – In Your Hands This year we’re bringing ARGE delegates together at our annual conference to help shape the future direction of the association. These events have always provided a forum for discussion and debate but now, more than ever, we want to hear your voice and opinion on the ARGE…
Uncategorised 10 February 2016
ARGE Executive Board Meeting Update
The ARGE Executive Board met at the end of January to set the agenda for 2016. Top of the agenda was the progress made on Environmental Product Declarations (EPD’s) project, which has been moving at a good pace. Central to EPD production are Life Cycle Assessments (LCA’s), which are created by the application of Product…
Uncategorised 17 December 2015
ARGE Look Towards 2016
After another productive year at ARGE, we’d like to take the opportunity to wish all our members a successful and prosperous 2016. Culminating in a successful and productive annual conference, where we confirmed the delivery of our EPD programme, it has been a year of progress for ARGE and its members. And next year looks…
Uncategorised 07 December 2015
What's Next For ARGE?
This year’s conference and the delivery of EPDs has demonstrated the importance of an agenda for ARGE and its members, but as our EPD journey completes its current phase the question is, what’s next on the agenda for ARGE? At this year’s conference we presented on a number of topical issues, all of which could…
Uncategorised 25 November 2015
Driving the ARGE Agenda
As an association our real value is in having a relevant agenda that delivers tangible benefits to our members. When we introduced the importance of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) over 3 years ago at the 2012 ARGE Conference we believed that EPDs were exactly that – critical to our members and an agenda that will…
Uncategorised 29 September 2015
Incorrect certification according to EN 1627
It came to ARGE’s attention that a Czech Testhouse certified hardware products according to EN 1627, burglar resistance. After discussion of the issue in ARGE’s WG C it became obvious, that this practice is not according to the CPR and the CEN rules. ARGE steered letters to our Czech member MEZA and to TREZOR Test…
Uncategorised 28 September 2015
Conference presentations available
The presentations from this years Annual Conference are now available for download. If you go to “Ressources” you’ll find the presentations given on our Conference in Stratford upon Avon. Besides the introduction about the DHF and the report of the board you can find the – EPD Project status by Cetim – EPD Project “roll…
Uncategorised 13 September 2015
Successful ARGE Conference at Stratford u.A.
More than 60 delegates and partners joined the ARGE Annual Conference at Stratford upon Avon. The participants recommended as well the business program as the nice hotel and sourroundings and the interesting social excursions. The French Association UNIQ invited ARGE to hold its conference 2016 in France. It will be on September 15th and 16th…