Enventure Technologies and Europartners form Strategic Partnership Europartners to be the engineering services consulting partner of Enventure in Europe

Bangalore – March 24, 2006: Enventure Technologies, a full-service RoHS solutions provider, and Europartners, a leading business and engineering consulting services provider, recently announced a strategic partnership. Through the partnership agreement, Europartners will provide distribution and support in Europe for Enventure’s two different levels of RoHS analysis – RoHS Plus and Green Advantage.

Europartners has been involved with the European electronics business sector for over 20 years and is well placed to understand the current issues and challenges faced by all companies in this arena. Europartners is aware of the problems companies are facing, and therefore the goal of the partnership between Enventure and Europartners is to enable Enventure to expand their electronic component engineering services in the European marketplace. The objective is to assist European companies achieve RoHS compliance.

“It has been estimated that 6 million tones of Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) has to be dealt within Europe every year. A failure to efficiently recycle, not only results in a significant loss of raw material resource, but also has an associated impact on the environment in terms of the energy required to mine, produce and transport new raw materials. Furthermore improved treatment of waste would help divert millions of tones of WEEE from landfill”, says Aubrey Dunford , Change Specialist at Europartners. "Through this collaboration with Enventure, we can now offer clients the ability to obtain fast and complete information on RoHS/WEEE compliant components”.

“Enventure has a proven track record in providing engineering services to electronics manufacturing companies in North America and Europe. We provide a range of RoHS compliance solutions which are customized to meet the individual needs of our clients”, says Kiran Sivadas, Director –Sales and Marketing, Enventure Technologies. “We are actively helping the electronics industry in meeting the RoHS deadline of 1st July’ 2006 which is critical for their business continuity in the EU. Our partnership with Europartners will allow us to create more value to the companies based in Europe”.

RoHS Plus and Green Advantage

RoHS PLUS is designed to take care of basic documentation requirements of RoHS directive and provides manufacturers with material composition information that will help ascertain their product’s RoHS compliance status. It includes deliverables such as RoHS Compliance status; detailed material information for each of the 6 banned substances: specifically – presence above threshold Yes/No, Mass, PPM and Application notes.

GREEN ADVANTAGE is intended for companies that have a WEEE compliance goal, apart from RoHS compliance. Detailed information is collected on material composition, including restricted/reportable substances as per the WEEE directive and the Joint Industry Guide (EIA/EICTA/JGPSSI) includes deliverables such as RoHS Compliance status; Detailed material information for each of the 25 restricted substances: specifically – presence above threshold Yes/No, Mass, PPM and Application notes.

About Enventure Technologies

Established in 1997, Enventure Technologies is a privately held company, incorporated in Portsmouth, NH (USA) with development centers in Bangalore (India). Over the years Enventure has evolved as a reliable partner to clients worldwide. Today, the company employs a large team of highly skilled developers and engineers in three state-of -the-art development centers in India.
Fore more info on Enventure Technologies e-Mail us at: info@enventureonline.com or visit www.enventureonline.com

About Europartners

Europartners provides electronics companies engaged in manufacturing, marketing and/or distribution with the professional consulting services and active operational support needed to meet the challenges of marketing within the evolving markets in Europe. Europartners’ major emphasis today is on market and industry research, supply chain relationships, strategic business plans, partnership sourcing, marketing and sales.

Established in 1989, Europartners offers its clients several hundred man-years of successful, hands-on management experience gained primarily in the electronics and electronic component industries. Europartners is active in all the countries of Western Europe and has established a firm foothold in Russia and several other developing markets.

For more information on Europartners, e-Mail us at: rohs@europartners.eu.com or visit www.europartners.eu.com