21.11.2012
- Sustainability - With a share of more than 40% plastics packaging represents the biggest application field of plastics in Europe today. Plastics packaging is an essential element...
21.11.2012
- These are troubling times for executives determining strategies and tactics for their organizations. Gone are the safe, traditionally competitive, resourceful, and technological...
21.11.2012
- Getting in Touch - Big, diverse and powerful, social networks have transformed the way we communicate. With four out of five Internet users actively using social media, industries...
21.11.2012
- Energy for Tomorrow - New data confirm the downward trend in the energy and greenhouse gas intensity of the European chemical industry. Efficiency gains are essential, but Europe's...
21.11.2012
- Technology - The design of air/water counterflow mass transfer devices with high specific surface polypropylene packings, used to enlarge the transfer surface, is frequently based...
21.11.2012
- Mega Project - As the world's population rises, there is a growing demand for fertilizers. Huge energy reserves, such as petroleum and natural gas deposits, are an ideal basis for...
21.11.2012
- Feedstocks - The rest of the world will have difficulties replicating the shale gas boom in the U.S. despite having plentiful reserves of the gas. Furthermore, there could be long...
20.11.2012
- Norway's Statoil signed a 10-year gas supply deal with Germany's Wintershall, based on spot prices that challenged Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom, which insists on oil-linked...
20.11.2012
- With an introduction to the U.S. set for 2014, and the realization of massive potential in the emerging markets of Asia, biosimilars are set to take a sizable chunk of the global...
20.11.2012
- In A Clinch - Big Pharma today encounters a variety of pressures from generics manufacturers, governments, patient advocacy groups, investors, physicians and even other...
