10.11.2011
- French specialty chemicals group Arkema revealed a near 4% fall in third quarter sales volumes on Wednesday, showing how tough times could lie ahead for the industrial sector in...
09.11.2011
- Uncontained Complexity - Plant maintenance within process industries is often complicated and managing several plants is even more difficult. The same tasks are often performed...
09.11.2011
- Deep Impact - Reach affects almost all departments in a chemical company. It is not only an issue for the regulatory affairs manager, but has an overall impact on procurement...
09.11.2011
- Overseas - "It is foreign investment - the deepest form of global integra¬tion - that binds the transatlantic economy together, not trade," reported The Transatlantic Economy 2010...
Look To The Future - Decades of operation, modernisation and expansion have left many chemical plants with a somewhat haphazard automation mix of different controls...
09.11.2011
- Success - At Loos, the acronym SUCcess stands for "Start-Up-Control combined with Shutdown and Standby," a control and equipment variant facilitating automatic steam boiler...
09.11.2011
- Polarizing Debate - From lighter materials for cars, stronger wind turbine blades to better insulation for homes, nanomaterials help create innovative products and improve...
Directive Replacement - The European IED (Industrial Emissions directive) was published in January 2011. This replaces the former IPPC (Integrated Pollution Prevention...
09.11.2011
- At least 48 chemical and defense companies were victims of a coordinated cyber attack that has been traced to a man in China, according to a new report from security firm Symantec...
08.11.2011
- One Year On - The regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on the Classification, Labeling and Packaging of hazardous substances and mixtures (CLP) became mandatory for substances as of...
