News

Bjørn Lomborg on the Give and Take in Greenhouse Gas Reduction

13.12.2013 - Bjørn Lomborg might not be a household name in the chemical industry, but the mention of his name in environmental activist circles seems to provoke one of two reactions: adoration...

News

The Chemical Industry in China and the Middle East

15.11.2013 - Challenging The West - For most of the 20th century, the global chemical industry was dominated by the Western world (Western Europe, North America and Japan as an honorary member...

Chemistry & Life Sciences

Chemicals in the Middle East

14.11.2013 - Leveraging Feedstocks' Advantage - Behind the Arabian Gulf petrochemical and chemical industry lies three decades of exceptional growth: leveraging advantaged feedstocks, economies...

Human Resources & Career

Accelerate Competency Assurance

14.11.2013 - Speed = Advantage - Abundance of natural gas in the U.S., an aging workforce, increased globalization and tighter regulations have created new competitive pressures on the European...

Plant Construction & Process Technology

Outsourcing Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing

12.11.2013 - Development On Trial - The number of biopharmaceutical projects in clinical trials and products is increasing, playing an important role in new treatments. Many of these projects...

Sites & Services

Bahrain: Bringing Innovation and Industrialization to Life

12.11.2013 - Bahrain had not been on the map of many investors from the chemical industry until December 2012 when German chemical giant BASF inaugurated a new plastics additives facility in...

Strategy & Management

Industry 4.0 Is Here

11.11.2013 - Survival of the Most Adaptable - "It is not the strongest that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change." Charles Darwin's statement...

Strategy & Management

SAP’s Marko Lange on Industry 4.0

11.11.2013 - CHEManager Europe: How will the trends and challenges described by the term "Industry 4.0" affect the chemical industry in particular? Marko Lange: In order to understand what...

Plant Construction & Process Technology

Rethinking Biosimilar Development

08.11.2013 - The World's Biologics Drug Price Problem - Drug expenses have become a significant item in household and government budgets around the world as more innovative and pricey biotech...

Logistics & Supply Chain

Global Supply Chains and Corruption

30.10.2013 - Barrier To Business - One of the defining trends of the past three decades has been globalization. In order to take advantage of low-cost labor in emerging economies, companies...