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				<title>Soar Printing wins Sustainable 60 award</title>
	
				<pubDate>2012-01-27</pubDate>
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						 The Sustainable 60 Awards celebrate sustainable business excellence and finalists were selected within 5 different categories: strategy and governance, workplace, marketplace, community and environment. There are also overall business awards for small, medium and large enterprises. Soar Printing picked up the Overall Business Award for Medium business. Soar Printing are certified by Telarc to the ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004, FSC and PEFC standards. 
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				<title>Paramount a finalist in Westpac Auckland Central Business Award</title>
	
				<pubDate>2012-01-27</pubDate>
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						 Paramount Services has been named a finalist in two categories of the Westpac Auckland Central Business Award run by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce.Paramount was named a finalist in the Excellence in Service Delivery and Excellence in Business Leadership categories. Paramount Services Limited are certified by Telarc to the&nbsp;ISO 9001:2008 &amp; ISO 14001:2004 standards. 
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				<title>Economic benefits of Standards</title>
	
				<pubDate>2012-01-26</pubDate>
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						 ISO has published international case studies on 11 companies in 10 countries showing that implementing Standards can provide economic benefits from between 0.5% and 4% of annual sales revenue.&nbsp;Follow this link&nbsp;and click on the 'International case studies prove economic benefits of Standards' article to read more. 
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				<title>New ISO Publication - 10 good things ISO Standards do for SMEs</title>
	
				<pubDate>2011-07-20</pubDate>
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						 ISO&nbsp;has published a free downloadable brochure with case studies from 10 small businesses around the world talking about the benefits of ISO&nbsp;standards and how they contribute to the success of their businesses. To read more follow this link to the International Organisation for Standardisation website &amp; download their free brochure. July 2011 
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				<title>New energy management standard launched by ISO</title>
	
				<pubDate>2011-06-21</pubDate>
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						 The International Organisation for Standardisation&nbsp;have recently published the ISO&nbsp;50001 energy management systems standard. This new standard will provide public &amp; private sector organisations with management strategies to increase energy efficiency and&nbsp;improve energy performance.&nbsp;To find out more about how this standard could have an impact on the world's energy use follow this link to the article on the ISO&nbsp;website. June 2011 
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				<title>New Edition Handbook puts ISO 14001 within easier reach of SME&#39;s</title>
	
				<pubDate>2011-05-02</pubDate>
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						 Small and medium-sized enterprises are being provided with a new tool to make it easier for them to achieve the benefits of implementing an environmental management system based on the International Standard, ISO 14001. The tool comes in the form of a combined handbook and CD, ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems &ndash; An easy-to-use checklist for small business &ndash; Are you ready?&nbsp; This Handbook is available from Standards New Zealand call 0800 782 632 May 2011 
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				<title>ISO 9001 Certification opens door to prestigious European Quality Award</title>
	
				<pubDate>2011-03-16</pubDate>
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						 &quot;ISO 9001 puts a whole series of controls in place. As well as quality in our projects, it ensures quality in the business and the policies. It links our project managers into the engine room of the organisation.&rdquo; In June 2010, New Plymouth company Whitaker Civil Engineering was awarded an International Arch of Europe Award for Quality Without their ISO 9001 Quality Management System, Whitaker Civil wouldn&rsquo;t have been eligible for the award Whitaker Civil is the only  &#8230;
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				<title>Standards New Zealand recertified to AS/NZS ISO 9001:2008</title>
	
				<pubDate>2010-11-25</pubDate>
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						 Follow the link below to the Standards New Zealand issue of the Touchstone newsletter&nbsp;and find out more about their recertification to the AS/NZS ISO&nbsp;9001:2008 standard by Telarc assessors. November 2010 
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				<title>AP1 Metrology increases turnover with Q-Base and Q-Safe from Telarc</title>
	
				<pubDate>2010-11-25</pubDate>
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						 &ldquo;I started seeing the benefits in the business from everyone understanding the need for these quality systems and how it all fitted in. I then began to see how it improves your business and basically your bottom line.&rdquo; AP1 Metrology is New Zealand&rsquo;s leading weighing and measuring calibration company. Bruce Ellison built the business over 17 years, operating largely as a sole trader. Realising that someone should be reviewing what he was doing, several years ago he selected  &#8230;
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				<title>ISO 14001 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS  27% GROWTH IN SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE</title>
	
				<pubDate>2010-10-27</pubDate>
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						 The ISO&nbsp;Survey of Certifications 2009 has recently been released ISO&nbsp;14001 Environmental Management Systems in the Southern&nbsp;Hemisphere&nbsp;have experienced remarkable annual growth at 27% over the 2009 period. ISO&nbsp;9001 Certifications have topped the one million mark globally. October 2010 
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				<title>Guide to Environmental Sustainability</title>
	
				<pubDate>2010-09-24</pubDate>
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						 Telarc's Quick Guide to Environmental Sustainability More and more businesses are talking about being 'green' or 'eco-friendly' because they recognise that it reduces their impact on the environment, reduces operating costs, and helps their marketing and public image. October 2010 
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				<title>SUBSCRIBE TO TELARC&#39;S NEW RSS FEED</title>
	
				<pubDate>2010-09-16</pubDate>
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						 Get the latest Telarc news and case studies loaded automatically to your web browser favorites feed tab by clicking the RSS&nbsp;icon on your command tool bar September 2010 
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				<title>New Edition of ISO 9001 for Small Businesses Handbook</title>
	
				<pubDate>2010-08-19</pubDate>
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						 A new edition of the successful ISO 9001 for Small Businesses handbook has been jointly published by ISO and the International Trade Centre (ITC).&nbsp;&nbsp;In plain language and through numerous concrete examples from a wide range of sectors, the ISO 9001 for Small Business handbook aims to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to understand and implement ISO&nbsp;9001. August 2010 
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				<title>Certification gives customers many reasons to prefer Soar Printing</title>
	
				<pubDate>2010-08-09</pubDate>
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						 Soar Printing is an industry leader in the printing sector. In recent years the family business, which dates back to the 1920s, has bravely gone where no other New Zealand printing business was prepared to go. To date the company has achieved required standards for ISO 9001 (Quality Management), ISO 14001 (Environmental Management), Enviro-Mark NZ Diamond, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PE FC). The latest certification for Soar is  &#8230;
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				<title>Atlantic Pacific American Express (APX)</title>
	
				<pubDate>2010-08-06</pubDate>
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						 In April 2007 Signature Travel and BTI, two prominent New Zealand travel companies merged to become BTI Signature Travel Ltd. Signature Travel had been ISO-certified since 1993 but the merger gave the new company an opportunity to review and certificate all of its operating processes and procedures to ISO 9001 standards. The company&rsquo;s General Manager of operations and quality Lynn Adams-Pearce, explains why they opted to do so despite the heavy workload imposed on both staff and  &#8230;
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				<title>Using the Product Assurance Framework to support Building Code compliance - A guide for manufacturers and suppliers of building products </title>
	
				<pubDate>2010-05-18</pubDate>
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						 A summary of New Zealand's building regulatory environment. Introduces the risk-based product assurance framework and lays out the options for manufacturers and suppliers etc to achieving building code compliance. Outlines to manufacturers, suppliers etc their responsibilities in providing building products with the necessary technical evidence to demonstrate code compliance. April 2010 
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				<title>Link to Harvard Business School - Working Paper</title>
	
				<pubDate>2010-05-18</pubDate>
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						 A link to the Harvard Business School Working Paper 09-018 - &nbsp;Quality Management and Job Quality: How the ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management Systems Affects Employees and Employers Several studies have examined how the ISO 9001 Quality Management System standard predicts changes in organizational outcomes such as profits. This is the first large-scale study to explore how employee outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety change when employers adopt ISO  &#8230;
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				<title>Quality Workmanship Code Delivers Big Electricity Savings</title>
	
				<pubDate>2010-02-22</pubDate>
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						 Large manufacturers wanting to rein in their electricity costs will increasingly demand evidence that repaired electric motors match the efficiency of new motors, as a national programme to promote high-quality rewinding gathers pace. February 2010 
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				<title>Quality motor rewinders take the initiative</title>
	
				<pubDate>2010-01-27</pubDate>
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						 Members of the New Zealand motor rewind industry are taking the initiative on quality and energy efficiency with the launch of a new independent certification scheme. January 2010 
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				<title>Quality in the automotive industry</title>
	
				<pubDate>2009-12-14</pubDate>
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						 ISO 9001 is becoming the base standard for a huge variety of industries worldwide, including automobile manufacture. From ISO Management Systems, May - June 2003 . 
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				<title>Volvo benefit from ISO 14001</title>
	
				<pubDate>2009-12-14</pubDate>
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						 Volvo Auto, Finnish importer of Volvo cars, has implemented a network wide ISO 14001 environmental management system (EMS), resulting in significant waste reduction, increased recycling, and benefits to the bottom line. From ISO Management Systems, May - June 2003 
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				<title>Does ISO 9000 certification pay?</title>
	
				<pubDate>2009-12-14</pubDate>
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						 &ldquo;Firms that failed to seek certification experienced substantial deteriorations in ROA, productivity and sales, while firms that did seek certification generally managed to avoid such declines&rdquo;. Published in ISO Management Systems magazine July / August 2002. Click title to read full story (PDF format) 
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				<title>NEWS ARCHIVE</title>
	
				<pubDate>2009-12-13</pubDate>
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						 Library of Archived News Articles 
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				<title>Healthy increase in profitability since implementing Q-Base</title>
	
				<pubDate>2009-12-06</pubDate>
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						 South Auckland Electroplaters managing director Raymond Greer reports a healthy increase in profitability since his company implemented Telarc Q-Base, the quality management system for small to medium sized enterprises. 
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				<title>FLO-DRY Engineering Ltd</title>
	
				<pubDate>2009-12-05</pubDate>
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						 Flo-Dry Engineering is a small, privately-owned, Albany-based company specialising in the design, manufacture and installation of byproduct processing systems and technology. The company designs and builds waste treatment plants that allow food processing companies to efficiently extract tallow, stock feed, fertiliser or bone gelatin products from animal waste. 
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				<title>Bristol Babcock implements Telarc Q-Base and creates sound work structure</title>
	
				<pubDate>2009-12-02</pubDate>
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						 Bristol Babcock Controls (NZ) Ltd plans to export its measuring instruments, and Manager Colin Dale believes the company&rsquo;s management system will help their export drive. 
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				<title>Tonkin &amp; Taylor Ltd</title>
	
				<pubDate>2009-12-01</pubDate>
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						 Tonkin &amp; Taylor is a specialist, employee-owned environmental and engineering consultancy with offices throughout New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia, Fiji and the Philippines. The company&rsquo;s client base includes major international and donor agencies, government departments, local government, commercial organisations, developers, contractors and other consultants. 
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				<title>CASE STUDY LIBRARY</title>
	
				<pubDate>2008-02-28</pubDate>
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						 Library of Archived Case Studies 
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