Accelrys Acquires Environmental Health and Safety Leader ChemSW

Sept. 4, 2013
Accelrys, Inc., a leading provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software, announced on September 3 that it acquired ChemSW, Inc., an Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) compliance solutions provider. 
This acquisition furthers Accelrys' scientific innovation lifecycle management strategy by providing solutions for managing and tracking the source, use and disposal of chemicals along the entire lab-to-plant value chain. The ability to manage chemicals across the full product lifecycle helps organizations across industries enhance compliance with increasingly complex global, national and local environmental health and safety regulations, and is critical to advancing their sustainability strategies.
Combined with Accelrys' solution portfolio, ChemSW's EH&S compliance software also enables Accelrys to help support the sustainability initiatives of customers in almost every industry. Specifically, the solutions address three key areas critical to meeting the complete business sustainability challenge: improving operational efficiency, delivering innovation and meeting compliance requirements. Read more