10.04.2015
- French family-owned group Roquette has started up a second production plant for its plant-based material, isosorbide. Roquette said the facility in Lestrem, Pas-de-Calais, is the...
09.04.2015
- Roquette, the world's No. 5 starch producer, announced the launch of a new 20,000 tons/year industrial unit for the production of isosorbide at its site in Lestrem, Pas-de-Calais...
29.10.2014
- UOP, a Honeywell company, announced today that Shanghai-based CEPSA Chemical will use UOP's Phenol process technology to produce high quality phenol and by-product acetone, key...
28.05.2014
- Sweden's environment ministry is threatening to sue the European Commission in the European Court of Justice over alleged foot-dragging on endocrine disruptors. Environment...
23.01.2014
- Midway through a public consultation on bisphenol A (BPA), the European Food Safety Agency said on 17 Jan. it has identified "likely adverse effects" of the chemical on the liver...
10.09.2013
- France is seeking to amend the harmonized classification and labelling (CLH) of bisphenol A (BPA) under REACH to reflect its own planned stricter standards for the controversial...
04.04.2012
- U.S. health regulators denied a request to ban a chemical used in water bottles, soup cans and other food and drink packaging, saying there is not enough scientific evidence it may...
09.12.2011
- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will decide by March 31 whether to ban a chemical used in water bottles, soup cans and other food and drink packaging that may cause harm to...
