Chris, You stated in your previous email that you are changing suppliers for legacy products and that you were not sure if the current supplier is meeting with your cleanness requirements. Have you sent out the legacy products to a testing facility to insure that your current supplier is meeting your requirements for cleanness or have the capability in house? If not you may want to consider the investment. Any time a new supplier mentions they want to make exceptions to existing requirements for a legacy product I become very cautious. I am sure there are more then enough individuals here that can share a horror story or two about going to a new supplier for cost reductions, only to find out that they are receiving less then what they are paying for and paying twice as much in the end. (I am not saying this is what is happening to you) It sounds like your company is going to move quite a bit of the product to the new supplier. If you can, verify what your current supplier is providing you and supply it to your new vendor. If the report shows your old vendor meeting your requirements you may have enough leverage to bring the new vendor around. Good luck, Ted T. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Confidentiality Notice This e-mail and any attachment(s) are intended for the individual or entity to which this email is addressed and may contain information that is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this e-mail to the intended recipient, please be aware that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this in error, please notify the sender by telephone at 604.430.4336 or by return e-mail, and please delete or destroy all copies of this communication. Thank you! --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------