Plant Construction & Process Technology

Cyber Security for Industrial Control Systems

21.01.2011 - Computer Attacks - Every month security researchers discover hundreds of new worms and viruses attacking the world's computer systems, but usually few in supervisory control and...

Chemistry & Life Sciences

Biocatalysis Can Pave the Way to Greener Manufacturing

21.01.2011 - One of the great challenges that the pharmaceutical, chemical and allied industries face in the 21st century is the transition to greener and more sustainable manufacturing...

News

Strategy Development in the Chemical Industry in China

20.01.2011 - Strategy Development in the Chemical Industry in China - From a Western perspective, business strategies should be based on two perspectives: an external and an internal one...

Chemistry & Life Sciences

Clariant Plans Innovation Center in Frankfurt

19.01.2011 - New Architecture for New Innovation - A warm, open building with an inviting aura as a home to R&D laboratories for the chemical industry - visitors strolling through any given...

News

Rx-360 Continues to Intensify Work in 2011

19.01.2011 - Looking Ahead - Rx-360 turns two years old this month, and the international supply chain consortium can look back on a host of achievements. The group now boasts over 50...

News

DSM’s Feike Sijbesma Named Humanitarian of the Year

18.01.2011 - Feed The World - When DSM's CEO Feike Sijbesma was awarded the UN's 2010 Humanitarian of the Year Award, it put the chemical industry in a new light. Sijbesma, who won the award...

Chemistry & Life Sciences

Steptoe & Johnson: Nanomaterials Need Effective Risk Governance

15.12.2010 - Responsibility - The benefits to humankind from the application of nanotechnologies are as varied as the different questions that need to be addressed to establish a reliable risk...

News

Intensive Cooperation

10.12.2010 - Wake-up Call - Infant formula laced with melamine, heparin tainted with oversulfated chondroitin sulfate, cough syrup contaminated with diethylene glycol - these scandals didn't...

Strategy & Management

Enterprise Resource Planning

10.12.2010 - Exchanging Data - ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems are often a key technology in the operations and maintenance functions of the process plant industry. They include...

Strategy & Management

Energy Management in the Chemicals Sector

10.12.2010 - Critical Consumption - Energy is widely acknowledged to be one of the largest operating expenses for chemical plants. In fact, total costs are often underestimated. Reported...