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EnvironMax Named as a DiversityBusiness.com Top Small Business for 2006
Award recognizes EnvironMax as one of the top minority-owned businesses in U.S.
Salt Lake City, UT – (December 13, 2006) – EnvironMax Inc., a leading provider of environmental management information solutions, today announced that it has been named as a Top Small Business for 2006 by DiversityBusiness.com. The award recognizes the growth and success EnvironMax has experienced in 2006, as well as recognition of Robert Craig, EnvironMax CEO, as one of the top minority entrepreneurs in the country.
“We could not be more pleased and excited about receiving this honor from DiversityBusiness.com,” explains Robert Craig, EnvironMax President and CEO. “Over the past 12 years, EnvironMax has worked diligently to produce the premier EMIS solution available, and this award serves as validation of our hard work and success.”
DiversityBusiness.com is the nation’s primary resource portal for small business and large organizational buyers. Over 500,000 businesses in the United Sates had the opportunity to participate in its 7th annual survey. The award is the basis of its annul Top Business List, which is seen by over 15 million people and is used by major corporations and large buying organizations for finding new business partners.
The DiversityBusiness.com award joins a number of honors and recognition received by EnvironMax. The company has previously received the prestigious Oracle Titan Award, recognizing EnvironMax’s partner excellence in solution development in the Public Sector. The company has also been consistently ranked #1 by multiple independent government evaluations of its technology, against both public and private sector competitive offerings.
“It is our plan to build on our public sector successes from the past several years, as we aggressively grow our presence in the private markets,” said Craig. “Our past success, and the accolades and awards we’ve received, only serve as motivation to continue to develop the premier hazardous materials and waste management technologies available.”
About EnvironMax
EnvironMax, Inc. is the leading provider of cradle-to-grave Environmental Management Information Solutions (EMIS) for both the public and private sectors. Built on Oracle 10g technology and winner of the Oracle Titan Award, EnvironMax solutions are available in both premise-based and on-demand versions, enabling organizations of any size to simplify the acquisition, tracking, management, and reporting of all hazardous materials and hazardous waste. EnvironMax is privately held and headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT. For more information, visit www.environmax.com or call 1-877-565-4234.
About DiversityBusiness.com
Launched in 1999, DiversityBusiness.com with over 32,000 members is the largest organization of diversity-owned businesses throughout the United States that provide goods and services to Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies and colleges and universities. DiversityBusiness.com performs research on diversity businesses for such leading publications as Forbes, Fortune magazine and numerous other media outlets. The site has gained national recognition and has won numerous awards for its content and design. DiversityBusiness.com facilitates contacts and communication, streamlines business processes and provides vital business news and information. DiversityBusiness.com is produced by Computer Consulting Associates International Inc. (CCAii.com) of Southport, CT. Founded in 1980; CCAii is a computer-consulting and diversity specialist firms.
EnvironMax Joins NAEM Council.
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, March 10, 2006 - The National Association of Environmental Management (NAEM) has accepted EnvironMax as a member of the Affiliate Council. This membership opens the way for EnvironMax to participate in programs and initiatives that focus on the management issues inherent to the environmental, health and safety. Council members are given the opportunity to express their views, meet informally with peers, share information, and address common problems at the local level. EnvironMax feels participation in this organization will help in maintaining its leadership position with environmental issues, chemical inventory management and hazardous waste tracking.
October 2005
EnvironMax Receives Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) Certification
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, October 24, 2005 - EnvironMax has been certified as a Small Disadvantaged Business under the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). This certification allows EnvironMax special SBA contract bidding opportunities when in competition for federal contracts. This program also provides evaluation credits for prime contractors who achieve SDB subcontracting targets. The program is intended to help federal agencies achieve the government-wide goal of 5 percent SDB participation in prime contracting. EnvironMax will be added to U.S. Small Business Administration list of certified Small Disadvantaged Businesses on-line registry at www.ccr.gov. EnvironMax receives the 2005 Oracle Titan Partner of the Year Award
 
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, October 4, 2005 - EnvironMax received the prestigious Oracle North American Titan Award for Solution of the Year 2005, Public Sector. This award is for their contribution along with partners Oracle, NASA, Intermec and Intel on Project ChemSecure. This project illustrates EnvironMax’s commitment to new technology. Project ChemSecure uses the power of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags to extend the company's chemical and waste management software suite beyond barcodes. The project will assist customers in meeting rigorous new Homeland Security challenges in the management and control of hazardous materials.
The Oracle Titan Awards recognize partner excellence in solution development and business achievements. Award recipients have successfully defined new markets, achieved leadership positions in target markets, and transformed traditional business practices based on Oracle's offerings. Oracle received 120 nominations for this year's Titan awards and EnvironMax was one of 17 recipients. Other award recipients include IBM Business Consulting Services, Hewlett-Packard, Computer Sciences Corp., Accenture, Hitachi Consulting Corp., SunGard SCT, Enterprise Business Solutions LLC, Fair Isaac Corp., MHC Software Inc., SI – Mi Services Group, Egenera Inc., Fidelity Information Services Inc., CSS Inc., Mythics, CedarCrestone, and Deloitte Consulting.
NASA Tries RFID for HAZMAT
At Dryden Flight Research Center, NASA is exploring ways to reduce costs and risk by using RFID to automatically identify and track hazardous materials.
By Jonathan Collins
Dec. 14, 2004—Looking to improve the management, security and safety of hazardous materials, NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., has tested a UHF RFID system linked with temperature sensors to track the location, handling and condition of chemicals at the center.
"When we heard about RFID we saw its potential, but instead of just producing a PowerPoint slide show of what RFID could enable we went ahead and developed a working solution to prove it," says Ralph Anton, chemical program manager at NASA Dryden.
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| A technician enters data on tagged chemicals into Dryden's hazardous materials management system. |
The pilot program—dubbed ChemSecure—used RFID tags and readers to detect and relay real-time information on the usage, shipment, tracking and storage of chemicals at the base to Dryden's existing Web-based hazardous materials management system (HMMS). The HMMS provides a way to manage data including the inventory, status and location of chemicals and the tracking of hazardous waste. At present, NASA uses bar codes on its chemical containers to track their arrival and storage at the base. The chemicals are kept in five secured fenced-in storage areas, with each area containing a 6-by-20-foot storeroom.
In a three-month trial that ended in October, one of the five chemical storage areas was fitted with fixed readers. About 24 chemical containers, ranging from metal cans to cardboard boxes with plastic bladders, were tagged prior to placement in the storage area. Because liquids absorb RF transmissions and metal reflects them, the trial required RFID tags designed to minimize the harmful effects of the item they were tagging. After a series of tests carried out by Intermec Technologies, which supplied the tags and readers for the trial, a single tag design—Intermec's Metal Mount Stick Tag, a passive 915 MHz read-write tag that measures 15mm (0.590 inches) by 210mm (8.25 inches)—was chosen. In addition, 12 NASA chemical-handling staff had 915 MHz RFID tags added to their identity cards so that the system could also track which workers were using which containers.
One Intermec Intellitag UHF fixed reader, configured with two antennas, was installed at the entry to the secured storage area, and another reader was placed on the inside of the door to the storeroom itself. In addition, temperature sensors were also placed both inside and outside the storeroom.
Automatically recording temperature, NASA believes, could significantly cut expenses. "Storing at the correct temperature can extend the useful life of chemicals. Given that for every $1 spent buying a chemical it costs about $10 to dispose of it, monitoring the temperature can save the government money in future," says Anton. Previously, staff members had to take temperature readings manually by visiting the storage area.
For the trial, both the RFID readers and the new temperature sensors were wired to Dryden's existing hazardous materials management system (HMMS) so that tagged containers and their contents could be linked to documentation and operating procedures related to each substance. Dryden's HMMS system, built using Oracle application and database products, was developed by EnvironMax, a Salt Lake City provider of environmental information management systems, at the Edwards Air Force base.
The trial RFID system was connected to visual warning lights, which were placed outside the storage area to provide an immediate signal to personnel if a container was being incorrectly removed from or added to a storage room. "That provides additional monitoring for trained employees who might make a mistake," says Anton. Used in conjunction with the RFID tags on ID badges, the system could also be used to ensure that workers are properly authorized and trained to use the chemicals in their possession.
Throughout the trial, containers were added to and removed from the storage area, as well as repositioned inside it, to test the ability of the network to track real-time changes. According to NASA, the system proved to be extremely sensitive in detecting movements within the storage room. "We could tell not just if a container was moved from a shelf but even if that container was just turned on the shelf," says Anton.
"We wanted to prove identity data could be integrated with data from other systems. This project provided a good test bed by combining location data with information from the HMMS," says Allyson Fryhoff, vice president of Oracle Sensor-Based Services, which is part of Oracle, in Redwood Shores, Calif. The trial used Oracle Corp's Sensor-Based Services software to collect and filter data from the readers and sensors, as well as to provide tools to manage and analyze the data. Rules set up within the software also could enable a host of responses to be automated based on information detected by the network. For example, environmental professionals could be alerted when the storage limit of a hazardous chemical locker was close to exceeding capacity. Also, automatic alerts could be automatically sent—via text messaging, telephone and e-mail—to professionals in security, safety, health and environment to warn them of any changes with the chemicals.
The NASA project tested Intermec handheld RFID readers and handheld computers to test the potential for reading tagged chemical containers outside of the storage area. "We can see the potential for emergency responders to identify chemicals that have left the base and are moved though the community," says Anton.
Handheld computers capable of reading tags on containers could be particularly important in identifying chemicals and how best to handle them if an accident should occur off the base, says Anton. "We have a great deal of information on chemicals at the base, but once the chemicals leave, the police, fire and medical responders have little information and have to wait for hard copies of [informational] material from us. Handheld computers would allow us to push information in real-time to emergency response personnel," he says.
NASA Dryden is planning a second phase of the ChemSecure project, which could start as early as January. That project will aim to provide the ability to automatically check all vehicles entering and leaving unguarded access points for tagged items, as well as extend RFID tracking throughout the facility. Additionally, the sensor-based technology will track all climate-controlled chemicals in restricted storage areas.
Original article can be found at the RFID Journal website
\EnvironMax First EMIS to Advance RFID Tag Potential
Project "ChemSecure" Assures Unmanned Tracking of High Threat Materials
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, September 10, 2004 – EnvironMax, Inc., working with Oracle, Intermec and NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, has demonstrated a new path to solving a significant Homeland Security challenge: high threat material management. With NASA Dryden as the test site and Oracle's new 10g database, EnvironMax software provided the foundation for tracking hazardous materials, in unmanned settings, with RFID tags to notify security and management staff of unauthorized movement of materials from storage locations and providing remote data rich information for hazardous material managers.
The system also carries the data necessary to wirelessly tie critical Material Safety Data Sheet information to handheld devices used by First Responders should a spill or accident take place in transit or on-site. This advanced use of sensor-based management tools includes temperature monitoring as well as off-vertical motion detectors. Using the EnvironMax Chemical Management Module, the Oracle 10g system enabled rapid deployment, robust management logic and maximum essential person contact via phone, email and SMS text messaging.
This demonstration project will serve as the basis for complete security and information management systems previously unavailable in the realm of nuclear, chemical and biological material management. Bob Waits, VP of Business Development and the project originator observed, "The EnvironMax solution goes far beyond just replacing barcodes with RFID tags. It demonstrates the true possibilities of "smart tags" to change business practices and, in this case, to make our world safer."
EnvironMax User’s Conference Largest Ever
Increased Training and Customer Interest Draws Big Crowd
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 28, 2004 – EnvironMax, Inc. and the Hazardous Material Management System (HMMS) Program Management Office completed its fifth annual Government User’s Conference recently held in Laguna Beach, California. Over 200 selected users attended the conference representing over 4,000 users across the country. Beginning with two days of special training workshops covering Material and Waste Modules and handheld data collectors to using Oracle Discoverer for ad hoc reporting, the remaining three days brought the users together to discuss best practices issues, functionality, the new Air Module and promoting growth to other DOD installations. Representatives from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines met individually with their service groups as well as together with the Program Management Office leadership.
The announcement of receipt of the System Security Authorization Agreement (SSAA) was one of the major highlights since this opens the door for much broader introduction of the EnvironMax/HMMS product suite. For the third year in a row commercial customers also attended the conference and training sessions.
“We continue to delight in the participation of our loyal HMMS user’s group. EnvironMax/HMMS is completely based on user design input. That, and our terrific product development team, is the reason we have placed first in every independent product evaluation in the Environmental Management Information System product market. Used throughout all the military services and other agencies, EnvironMax’s product provides similar capabilities in the commercial marketplace, where the company is allied with the country’s largest hazardous waste services company.
EnvironMax HMMS 4.0 Obtains Key Security Authorization and Marine Corps Support
DoD Events Point to EnvironMax Growth Opportunities
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 23, 2004 – EnvironMax, Inc., the highest independently rated enterprise-wide environmental management information system (EMIS) in the market, has recently received the Air Force’s System Security Authorization Agreement (SSAA) accreditation. This hard-won action opens the door for implementation of the EnvironMax HMMS 4.0 web-based system throughout the Department of Defense, across all service branches. EnvironMax’s existing user sites can transition from the client/server version and new customer sites can begin with the highly-desirable browser based system. In a separate action, the Marine Corps has further evaluated and pronounced HMMS 4.0 as the EMIS product of choice for use at its bases. EnvironMax already serves several key bases and will see expansion to other key sites across the country.
Robert F. Craig, Chairman and CEO, stated, “We are very pleased to once again be recognized for our superior product technology. This accreditation and the Marine Corps’ evaluation further establishes our clear lead in meeting the DoD’s rigorous security functional demands.”
Used throughout all the military services, EnvironMax’s product provides similar security and functional capabilities in the commercial marketplace, where it is allied with the country’s largest hazardous waste services company and the largest chemical distributor.
EnvironMax System of Choice for Univar
Univar Selects EnvironMax Software to Manage Waste Transport and Treatment
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 22, 2004 – EnvironMax, Inc., the award-winning environmental information software provider, has been selected by Univar, the nation’s largest chemical distributor, to supply software for Univar’s ChemCareÓ waste transport division. Univar selected EnvironMax’s Transport, Storage and Disposal Facility (TSDF) system after a rigorous evaluation process. As a customer of EnvironMax, Univar joins other companies with multi-billion dollar sales such as Kodak, Pennsylvania Power & Light and Onyx North America.
“This is another great step forward for us” said John Meeks, EnvironMax Strategic Account Manager responsible for the Univar relationship. Larry Adamson, General Manager / Chief Technology Officer, added: “Univar has revenues of $2.3 billion, over 3,500 employees, a fleet of approximately 2,000 delivery vehicles and tank storage capacity of nearly 23 million gallons across 120 locations in the US. The Company supplies chemicals to, or collects hazardous waste from, over 100,000 customers in the chemical compounding, chemical manufacturing, coatings, inks and adhesives, electronics, energy, food, forest products, personal care, pest control and waste management sectors.”
EnvironMax’s provides software, available via ASP or corporate intranet, for inventory and waste management, air and water emissions, TSDF and compliance management.
Robert F. Craig, Chairman and CEO, stated, “We have concluded a substantial contract with yet another large customer, again demonstrating demand for our robust, user-friendly environmental information management system. Univar is America’s leading chemicals distributor. Its customers include Fortune 500 firms and tens of thousands of smaller businesses that could all use the appropriate version of at least one of our software products. We look forward to deepening and extending our relationship with Univar.”
EnvironMax TSDF Module One of a Kind Solution for EcoFlo
Regional Waste Treatment Facility Joins Select Group with Software Addition
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, September 19, 2003 – EnvironMax, Inc.’s TSDF Module has been selected by EcoFlo of Greensboro, North Carolina for its comprehensive Transfer, Storage and Destruction Facility (TSDF) management solution. The web-browser based software system will serve EcoFlo in its hazardous material management services throughout the mid-Atlantic region and will enable them to automate their container management, sampling and reporting activities.
Robert F. Craig, Chairman and CEO, stated, “Our solution in the TSDF service arena is without competition in the marketplace and is gaining significant recognition and acceptance.” EnvironMax’s comprehensive product suite for managing chemical inventory and waste, air and water emissions and compliance provides software and implementation in the government and commercial marketplace.
EnvironMax Set for Second NASA Launch
NASA Marshall Space Center in Huntsville, AL Chooses EnvironMax
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, September 19, 2003 – EnvironMax, Inc’s Hazardous Material Management System (HMMS) 4.0 has been selected for use in managing chemicals and waste at the Marshall Space Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This is EnvironMax’s second major NASA award, joining NASA Dryden at Edwards AFB. EnvironMax develops and delivers the highest independently rated environmental management information software suite in the nation. Dryden has won performance and cost savings awards since implementing HMMS and has become a flagship of best practices in hazardous material management. A successful history of legacy data conversion and integration with ERP systems was an additional factor in EnvironMax’s selection.
Robert F. Craig, Chairman and CEO, stated, “We have certainly enjoyed our relationship with NASA facilities and are honored to once again be selected to help a major site adopt best-of-breed hazardous materials management practices.” Used throughout all the military services, EnvironMax’s product provides similar capabilities in the commercial marketplace, where it is allied with the country’s largest hazardous waste services company.
EnvironMax Chosen By US Marines at Yuma, AZ
Another Marine Base Added to the EnvironMax Service Group
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, September 19, 2003 – EnvironMax, Inc.’s Hazardous Materials Management System (HMMS) 4.0 has been selected as the environmental management software suite for the Yuma Marine Base in Yuma, Arizona. The renewable contract includes implementation, training and on-going support of HMMS 4.0, the highest independently rated software in its market. The addition of this base continues EnvironMax’s growth in the Marines. The company’s software is used by all the services in the Department of Defense. Its web-based upgrade has been extremely well-received with anticipated expansion to many more sites. EnvironMax software provides complete transaction management for purchase to disposal with the essential compliance and management reports built in.
Robert F. Craig, Chairman and CEO, stated, “We are very pleased to expand our role in with the Marines while securing our nations hazardous materials and saving significant taxpayer dollars through better chemical inventory management.” Used throughout all the military services, EnvironMax’s product provides similar capabilities in the commercial marketplace, where it is allied with the country’s largest hazardous waste services company.
EnvironMax Named Key Oracle EMIS Partner
EnvironMax and Oracle Play Role in Homeland Security
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May 13, 2003 – EnvironMax recently participated as a newly named EMIS partner in Oracle sponsored conferences on Homeland Security in Denver and San Francisco. The significant relationship provides Oracle’s extensive customer base with even closer ties to the nation’s top rated Environmental Management software suite. Using Oracle’s robust 9i and 9ias database and web architecture systems, EnvironMax provides enterprises the ability to manage Nuclear, Chemical and Biological materials and waste, air and water emissions, and compliance procedures and reports with powerfully automated, yet easy-to-use software solutions.
Larry Adamson, EnvironMax CTO and General Manager, stated, “We are very honored to be selected as an Oracle Partner. This relationship brings our customers the results of the hard work of all our employees and the superior product that they deliver to facilitate Homeland Security and to create significant cost savings in the management of hazardous materials and waste.” Used throughout all the military services, EnvironMax’s product provides similar capabilities in the commercial marketplace, where it is allied with the country’s largest hazardous waste services company.
ENMAX Makes the “Utah 100” for Third Year in a Row
Strong Growth in Commercial Market
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, October 22, 2002 – ENMAX, Inc., the parent company of EnvironMax, has, for the third straight year been selected to the prestigious “Utah 100”. Organized by the Mountain West Venture Group (MWVG), over 11,000 Utah-based companies are invited for consideration on multiple criteria and must sustain over 200% growth for the last five years. ENMAX provides a broad range of software development services. It primary subsidiary, EnvironMax, develops the highest independently rated environmental management information software suite in the nation.
Robert F. Craig, Chairman and CEO, stated, “We are very honored to once again be recognized by MWVG. This award symbolizes the hard work of all our employees and the superior product that they deliver to facilitate Homeland Security and to create significant cost savings in the management of hazardous materials and waste.” Used throughout all the military services, EnvironMax’s product provides similar capabilities in the commercial marketplace, where it is allied with the country’s largest hazardous waste services company.
EnvironMax Relocates to New Headquarters in Salt Lake City
Move Represents Growth and Commitment to Superior Services
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, August 4, 2002 – EnvironMax, Inc. has made a milestone step to consolidate its growing staff to its new headquarters building at 2875 South Decker Lake Drive in the Lake Point Corporate Centre near the eCenter, home of Olympic ice skating. Uniting corporate management with its software development team and help desk staff furthers its much acclaimed and seamless delivery capabilities of the company’s web-based Environmental Management Software suite.
Robert F. Craig, EnvironMax CEO and President, expressed the importance of this move, “Consolidating all elements of our company, with some 45 employees, in one location will greatly facilitate our world-class efforts as the premier environmental management systems solution provider.” This move is a significant event in the company’s history since it came to Utah in 1994 as a broad-based software development company from the business incubator program at Georgia Tech with the assistance and support of Senator Orin Hatch. EnvironMax now focuses entirely on environmental management software and solutions with this latest product offering representing its second-generation web-based environmental management suite.
EnvironMax Hosts Its Largest User’s Conference
Users Gather to Celebrate New Product Introduction
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, September 20, 2002 – EnvironMax, Inc. completed its largest Annual User’s Conference for government and commercial customers. Turnout of over 200 representative users for the conference confirms the interest and focus of organizations on the hazardous material management issues which pose a risk to our nation’s safety and security. Topics covered in the conference included product training, new functionality requirements, environmental management operations, handheld devices and connectivity benefits.
Larry Adamson, EnvironMax CTO and General Manager, stated, “The user excitement over our new web-based product encourages us all to stay focused on the national need for accountability of all Nuclear, Chemical and Biological materials and the people that use these materials.” EnvironMax’s software suite is used by all the U.S. military services and by the country’s largest hazardous waste management service provider and its customers.
Onyx North America Selects EnvironMax to Develop Waste Tracking Software
for Its Nationwide Network of Waste Treatment Facilities
Unique Integration Puts Onyx Ahead of the Pack
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 2002 – EnvironMax, Inc. has been selected to develop a custom solution to track customer waste for Onyx North America. The system will replace a diverse array of independent legacy systems with a total management package. This project builds upon a growing alliance of capabilities with Onyx using EnvironMax hazardous materials and waste management system to enable its in-plant service personnel to provide timely, accurate information and compliance reporting.
This project is representative of the forward thinking efforts of Onyx to exceed their customer’s expectations. Information management has become a key element of successful environmental management with EnvironMax software playing the central role in tracking hazardous materials and waste.
Department of Defense “Re-Ups” with EnvironMax
for Hazardous Materials and Waste Management Software
Six Years of Successful Implementation Continue with New Web-based Version
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May 2002 – EnvironMax, Inc. has received a multi-million dollar contract renewal from the Department of Defense (DoD) GSA-FEDSIM for its EnvironMax Hazardous Materials Management System (HMMS). This contract includes implementation of the company’s new web-based software suite, the first in the Department of Defense. EnvironMax HMMS has saved its users over $60 million since its implementation six years ago.
EnvironMax’s software suite plays a key role in Homeland Security by enabling full accountability for nuclear, chemical and biological (NCBs) materials and wastes. The system can reside on user’s servers or be accessed directly from an EnvironMax hosted site. Remote data collection and correlation can be accomplished with wireless handheld devices and barcode scanning. Used throughout all the military services, the company’s product also provides similar management capabilities in the commercial marketplace where it is allied with the country’s largest hazardous waste services company. |