Plastics | 3E

Plastics are integral to numerous end products including building products, consumer products, automobiles, and packaging. As such, the plastics industry is often at the forefront of regulations and customer demands ranging from concerns over chemical composition, to recycling and circularity. 3E helps plastics manufacturers stay a step ahead with regulatory expertise, monitoring and insights, supply chain information exchange support, workplace safety solutions, and SDS management. Ask how we can help you meet your compliance, sustainability, and product stewardship goals.

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3E maintains physical, chemical, toxicological, and eco-toxicological data

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3E supports 50+ SDS languages worldwide

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3E has regulatory or news coverage for over 120 countries

Success story

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“Chemical regulations are evolving very fast, so the most challenging thing is keeping up-to-date with all these new developments, but also understanding what they mean for us. This is the good thing that I see in 3E – how you help us to try to focus on pointing out the high values and important things that we need to be careful about.”

Sabic

Global Specialist, Product Safety and Toxicology

3E solutions for plastics manufacturers

3E Solutions

Chemical & Workplace Safety Solutions

3E Protect structures chemical and safety data sheet data according to defined normalization standards

3E Solutions

Product Stewardship Solutions

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3E Solutions

Supply Chain Visibility Solutions

Streamlined supply chain transparency solutions, backed our team of industry-leading experts

3E Solutions

Sustainability Solutions

Our innovative sustainability solutions help businesses achieve eco-friendly practices, social responsibility, & transparency.

Sustainability

Circularity

Prepare for the future and lay the foundation for achieving circularity by leveraging accurate supply chain data, material traceability, and powerful 3E datasets.

3E capabilities for plastics manufacturers

Chemical & Workplace Safety

Chemical Inventory and Safety Data Sheet (SDS) Management Software

3E offers the only full-service chemical inventory and SDS management solution: simply send us a list of products and let us take care of the rest.

Chemical & Workplace Safety

Regulatory News and Insights

Accurate, up-to-date global regulatory information and reports – all in one place.

Product Stewardship

Regulatory Change Management & Horizon Scanning Tools

Anticipate, track, and manage developing requirements worldwide

Chemical & Workplace Safety

Emergency Response

Enhance risk mitigation by granting employees worldwide direct access to 3E Emergency Response services.

Sustainability

PFAS Risk Management

Future-proof your compliance with PFAS regulations. Instill transparency in your organization’s processes and reduce PFAS risk exposure.

Sustainability

Product Transparency

Future-proof your compliance with PFAS regulations. Instill transparency in your organization’s processes and reduce PFAS risk exposure.

3E products for plastics manufacturers

Chemical & Workplace Safety

3E Protect

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Chemical & Workplace Safety

3E Insight

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Product Stewardship

3E ERC+

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Product Stewardship

3E Generate - SDS Authoring Software

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Supply Chain Visibility

3E Exchange

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Industry news and resources

3E Exchange Digital Product Passport library houses over one million digital product passports to support compliance and sustainability data sharing throughout the supply chain

News

Digital Product Passports: inside the two-sided compliance backbone supporting DPP readiness

June 23, 2026

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News

EU PPWR: Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation

June 23, 2026

3E introduced the Error-Free Guarantee — a formal commitment to error-free SDS data accuracy, timeliness, and coverage within 3E Protect.

News

Why 3E put a guarantee behind SDS data

June 2, 2026

The SDS is a standardized document required under the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) and enforced in the United States by OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard (HazCom)

News

What Is a Safety Data Sheet? The Complete Guide

May 29, 2026

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News

The Trust Gap: Why AI Adoption Has Outpaced AI Readiness in EHS

May 26, 2026

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AI for Regulatory Compliance: Can you stand behind that answer?

May 22, 2026

This report provides a grounded, evidence-based framework for evaluating AI in highly-regulated environments.

News

The capability–governance gap: A 2026 evidence review of public LLMs in regulated work

May 22, 2026

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Supply Chain Data Collection in Plastics Manufacturing: Key Trends, Pain Points & Solutions

May 12, 2026

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