20.05.2010
- LyondellBasell began restarting a crude distillation unit at its 270,600 barrel-per-day (bpd) Houston refinery on Wednesday, said a company spokesman. "We began start-up today on...
18.05.2010
- Global Player - Dow Corning's chairman, president and CEO, Dr. Stephanie Burns, has become something of a regular in Washington, D.C., where she works together with the nation's...
18.05.2010
- Clariant's Matt Tichon asks: What is one of the primary goals of a chemical manufacturing company as it relates to their physical assets? That is a relatively easy question to...
18.05.2010
- Everlasting - Energy and resource consumption are increasing worldwide - and environmental impact with it. Since fossil fuels and resources such as water are finite, saving energy...
18.05.2010
- Circle of Life - Evides Industry Water owns and operates various water treatment plants in the Benelux and Germany, and the reuse of industrial and municipal effluent has been part...
18.05.2010
- Sharp Focus - 2010 could be a watershed year for the excipient sector in Europe as amendments to the falsified medicines directive bring excipient quality and safety considerations...
18.05.2010
- Metamorphosis - In our first article in the Welcome to Pharma 3.0 series, "A New Business Model for Delivering Sustained Value," (CHEManager Europe 2-3/2010), we described how the...
18.05.2010
- Pros And Cons - European pharmaceutical manufacturing and API production has experienced a shift of a significant proportion of total production to Asia in recent years, driven...
18.05.2010
- Flow Chemistry - These days, the chemical market is under considerable cost and ecological pressure, in view of the new emerging markets and production capabilities in Asia...
18.05.2010
- Being Nimble - The distribution sector did not make it through the economic downturn unscathed; however, companies with broad product portfolios, such as the IMCD Group, were able...
