The new FECC–BCG pan‑European pulse check provides a data-based snapshot of market sentiment, priorities, and challenges facing European chemical distributors in the current economic and regulatory environment.
Nouryon and IMCD have entered a strategic distribution partnership to broaden access to its textile and leather processing chemicals for manufacturers and formulators across EMEA.
The two Japanese companies Asahi Kasei and Teijin are merging their trading divisions.
Safic-Alcan, a distributor of specialty chemicals, announces the acquisition of Ingredients Plus, a specialty chemicals distributor with a strong historical presence in the personal care sector in Malaysia and Singapore.
LBB Specialties (LBBS) recently announced the expansion of its distribution partnership with Clariant. This enhances LBBS’s presence in Puerto Rico, providing customers with access to pharmaceutical-grade excipients.
Azelis has acquired Azienda Chimica e Farmaceutica (‘ACEF’), a distributor of speciality raw materials and ingredients for the cosmetic, nutraceutical, galenic, and pharma industries in Italy.
Merck will open a new € 20 million distribution center in São Paulo, Brazil to better serve its Life Science customers in the region. The new space, which will be operational in late February, has an area of 13,000 square meters, which is twice as large as the former São Paulo location.
Oqema has announced its acquisition of Stera Chemicals, one of the largest distributors of chemical raw materials in Romania.
US industrial gases producer Air Products said it will spend $500 million to build, own and operate a 35 t/d green liquid hydrogen plant at a greenfield site in Massena, New York.
Chinese contract research, development and manufacturing organization WuXi STA, a subsidiary of WuXi AppTec, has broken ground on a new pharmaceutical campus in Middletown, Delaware, USA.
Without products based directly or indirectly on chemicals, life as we know it would be unsustainable. According to various sources, more than 95% of the products around us are either made by the chemical industry or involve at least one chemical process step in their manufacture.
Over the last few years there has been a lot of talk about digitalization, also in chemical distribution.
