Protected by Copyscape Duplicate Content Check

Subscribe by Email and get notified about new postings as soon as they happen!

Your email:

Check Out This DVD About RRP Work Practices

This DVD, produced by Chris Zorzy, contains great time saving solutions for complying with the RRP Rule.   Chris shares a variety of containment strategies that will help keep your jobsites clean, reduce job costs and meet RRP requirements

Looking For RRP Forms and Signage?

Shawn has reviewed these forms, helped the provider enhance the forms and recommends them as a great option for those who want to use paper forms to document compliance with the EPA RRP rule.

Lead Paint Fors Store Banner

LeadPaint FormsStore.com

Browse Topics by Tag

I just wanted to say thank you for your efforts to keep us informed.

"Thank you again for the hundreth time for keeping a vigil on this business nightmare. Your site is one of the best resources we have to stay on level ground" 

Christian Peter

 

"I am quite impressed with all the confusion out there at Shawn McCadden’s clear and concise voice that continues to help contractors and those involved in this industry truly understand the rule. His efforts should be applauded." 

Christopher Wagner, LBPFiles

 

"RRPedia is an accurate and contractor friendly interpretation of the very complex and confusing EPA RRP rule"

 

"Thanks for taking the time to write the blog.  It's about the only place one can go to get some serious info on this dreadful subject"

Suggest or Contribute a RRPedia Topic

Want a Simple Summary of the EPA RRP?

Shawn McCadden has created an EPA RRP Summary for Remodelers.

"Hi Shawn, Nice RRP write up on the website.   I've already forwarded a link to it to a number of local builder types."  

Click here to go to the summary.  You can also download it if you want your own copy.

Add this widget to your Web page, blog, or social networking site. A widget is a CDC.gov application that displays the featured content directly on your web page. Click the buttons to see the next tip to prevent lead poisoning.


 

Welcome to RRPedia
Your Interactive Resource for EPA RRP Information

Looking for accurate information about the EPA RRP rule?

RRPedia RRPedia logohas been created by Shawn McCadden to help remodelers and others affected by the New EPA Renovation Repair and Painting Rule. 

Please read RRPedia Use and Contribution Information before using or contributing to RRPedia

Be sure to Read Shawn's Remodeling Magazine Blogs about the EPA RRP Rule.  Click here to see a list

Keep checking back.  Information about a wide range of RRP-related topics will continue to be added. 

You Can Browse For RRP Topics By Using The Tags List To The Right

Current Articles | RSS Feed RSS Feed

Breaking News: 3M Acquires Hybrivet Systems, Makers of Lead Test Kits

Posted by Shawn McCadden on Thu, Feb 17, 2011 @ 09:16 AM
  
  
  
  
Add to delicious  delicious  
  

Please read RRPedia Use and Contribution Information before using or contributing to RRPedia

Breaking News Release!

3M Acquires Hybrivet Systems Inc.

This Just released at 10AM February 17, 2011

3m logoST. PAUL, Minn. – Feb. 17, 2011 – 3M announced today it has acquired Hybrivet Systems Inc., a leading provider of instant-read products to detect lead and other contaminants and toxins. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

 

LeadCheck sold to 3MHybrivet Systems Inc.’s flagship product is LeadCheck® Swabs, which is widely recognized as the fastest, easiest, most cost-effective lead detection product on the market. LeadCheck® has been at the forefront of lead detection and awareness since 1991.

 

The addition of Hybrivet Systems Inc. provides 3M immediate access to the potentially large market for testing paints in older houses and commercial buildings for lead to meet new Environmental Protection Agency lead-safe work practices regulations.  LeadCheck® was the first EPA recognized instant test kit under the Renovation, Repair and Painting rule that went into effect April 20, 2010.

“The LeadCheck products complement and build on our paint preparation, tape and safety businesses and broaden our product offerings in the paint aisle,” said Jack Truong, vice president and general manager, 3M Construction and Home Improvement Markets Division.

Hybrivet Systems Inc. is based in Natick, Mass and employees 11 people. 

About Hybrivet Systems Inc.

Marcia Stone, PhD, Hybrivet Systems Inc. Founded in 1987 by Marcia Stone, PhD, Hybrivet Systems Inc. is passionately dedicated to protecting the public from contaminants and toxins by offering a series of instant-read detection products. Recognized by the EPA, LeadCheck® Swabs are the most effective way for Certified Trainers and contractors to comply with the EPA Repair, Renovation and Painting (RRP) rule. Commercially available to all contractors, EPA trainers, and home owners, LeadCheck swabs help protect families, and especially children, against lead poisoning.

 

About 3M

3M captures the spark of new ideas and transforms them into thousands of ingenious products. Our culture of creative collaboration inspires a never-ending stream of powerful technologies that make life better. 3M is the innovation company that never stops inventing. With $27 billion in sales, 3M employs about 80,000 people worldwide and has operations in more than 65 countries. For more information, visit www.3M.com or follow @3MNews on Twitter.

Media Contact:

Donna Fleming Runyon, 3M

(651) 736-7646

Investor Contacts:

Matt Ginter, 3M

(651) 733-8206

Bruce Jermeland, 3M

(651) 733-1807

Tags: 

Comments

Hey 3M, Cheers, my 2 cents, this could be a one lifetime opertunity for growth in the industry of lead paint business options-sales,Public awareness, I am going to try to make contact with their 
 
head office of operations,design and engineering of new inovative products, maybe i can join their team,
Posted @ Thursday, February 17, 2011 11:14 AM by J R
Contractors, take the time to find a certified lead inspector. On a per test basis, it is less expensive to hire a certified inspector to do your lead testing. An average size house requires approximately 200 separate component tests. Lead check swabs cost about $3.00 each (they can't be used on drywall or plaster)plus the cost of labor to perform the test and document the results. Lead check swabs and the D-lead tests approved for drywall and plaster are destructive tests. A certified inspector using an XRF Analyzer can test a residence without damaging any surface, enabling you to get results in the estimating phase of a project.
Posted @ Wednesday, March 02, 2011 4:34 PM by Don Stader
check out this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDnnDk7z19k give your senators governers or the white house what do you got to lose only money
Posted @ Monday, March 07, 2011 8:47 PM by paul k
Post Comment
Name
 *
Email
 *
Website (optional)
Comment
 *

Allowed tags: <a> link, <b> bold, <i> italics