Keyword: chemicals

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Shell Appalachia Project to Include 1.6 Million t of PE

08.06.2016 - Shell Chemicals has finally made the decision to build a major shale-gas to petrochemicals complex on the banks of the Ohio River in Potter Township, Beaver County, northwest of...

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CEFIC says European Chemical Business Flat

03.06.2016 - European chemical production in the first quarter of 2016 was almost on the level of the 2015 quarter, as no significant changes in the business climate were seen, the European...

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Greenpeace Slams Revised US Chemicals Act

01.06.2016 - Environmental advocacy organization Greenpeace has criticized the new Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) passed by the US House of Representatives as “the weakest of all US...

Logistics & Supply Chain

Inspiring Innovation in Chemical Distribution

12.05.2016 - The chemical distribution industry has annual sales of around €168 billion globally, with about €28 billion in Europe. As a crucial link in the supply chain that connects...

Logistics & Supply Chain

Distribution Models for the Future

12.05.2016 - Distributors often see themselves in a central position within the chemicals (or polymers) value chain, as a bridge between supplier expectations and customer needs. This position...

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Maroon Buys Distributor U.S. Chemicals

06.05.2016 - Maroon Group has acquired U.S. Chemicals, a specialty chemicals distributor based in Darien, Connecticut, USA, for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 1960, family-owned U.S. Chemicals...

Markets & Companies

Supplier-Customer Relationship

05.04.2016 - Chemical companies both large and small are more comfortable today than ever before with outsourced contract manufacturing, or tolling, as it’s commonly called. For many tolling is...

Strategy & Management

The New Globalism

04.04.2016 - In September of 2015, Siegfried completed all closing conditions for its acquisition of the custom synthesis business of BASF and parts of the German group’s active pharmaceutical...