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compounders, end-product manufacturers, equipment manufacturers, recyclers, and distributors. Inaugural +Vantage Vinyl members include Oxy, Shintech, Westlake Chemical, Formosa Plastics, Sika, Chemours, Mexichem, and PolyOne. The new initiative officially launches June 4, 2019, at the Sustainable Brands conference in Detroit, Michigan. A kick-off special event will be held at 5 p.m. EST at the VSC’s +Vantage Vinyl exhibit located in the Good Materials pavilion on the Sustainable Brands expo floor. About the Vinyl Institute (VI) The Vinyl Institute, founded in 1982, is a U.S. trade organization representing the leading manufacturers of vinyl, vinyl chloride monomer, and vinyl additives and modifiers. The Vinyl Institute serves as the voice for the vinyl industry, which encompasses nearly 3,000 vinyl manufacturing facilities, more than 350,000 employees and an overall economic value of $54 billion. Check out www.vinylinfo.org to learn more about the vinyl industry and VI. About the Vinyl Sustainability Council (VSC) The Vinyl Sustainability Council is a self-funded council created by the Vinyl Institute in 2016 to advance the efforts of the vinyl industry as it addresses sustainability and related advocacy, communication, and technical issues in North America. +Vantage Vinyl is a collaborative initiative of the VSC dedicated to best practices and innovations for a sustainable world for current and future generations. Visit +Vantage Vinyl and check out the Vinyl Sustainability Council for more information about our industry sustainability efforts. . NDC Technologies Adds Language Support to its Cloud-Based Customer Support Portal “myNDC” NDC Technologies, a leading global provider of precision measurement and control solutions, announces that its cloud-based support portal myNDC now offers language support. Languages include French, German, Japanese, Spanish and Chinese. “NDC is a global organization serving the diverse needs of customers in over 60 countries in many languages, says Mahesh Havildar, VP of Customer Service for NDC Technologies. “Customer intimacy and customer satisfaction is very important to us. Offering multi-lingual support on myNDC enables us to communicate to our customers in their own language. This also allows us to accelerate the way we help our customers by making access to content, features and functions faster, easier and friendlier.” NDC is continually enhancing myNDC to create the most positive customer experience. And, the addition of language support is just one more way NDC is touching customers. myNDC offers 24-7-365 support and enables NDC team members to efficiently create incidents, view a customer’s installed base or service history and tap into a comprehensive and growing knowledgebase. Customers have access to a rich database of frequently asked questions, can quickly reach NDC support through several channels and easily generate their own Return Material Authorizations (RMAs) for product repairs. myNDC also offers live chat for immediate support and feedback to customer service requests. . WIRE NEWS July 2019 7