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If you are not a condensed matter physicist, vanadium oxide (VO2) may be the coolest material you've never heard of. It's a metal. It's an insulator. It's a window coating and an optical switch. And thanks to a new study by physicists at Rice University, scientists have a new way to reversi ... more
Air Products has recently received the “China Best Employer Award 2011” top 100 nominaton recognizing its contribution to talent recruitment and development in China. Air Products was one of six companies from the chemical industry receiving this recognition. The award was jointly organized ... more
ELANTAS Electrical Insulation, a division of the specialty chemicals Group ALTANA AG, has acquired the casting resins business for electrical and electronic applications of the Italian Marbo Group. The casting resins business of Marbo includes products for the encapsulation or coating of el ... more
A new thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) developed by Bayer MaterialScience together with the BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing in Berlin, Germany, shows that plastics can also have a memory. Parts made of such a plastic can be temporarily reshaped and fixed in this sha ... more
Merck announced that within the scope of a capital increase by the Israeli start-up company QLight Nanotech, it is acquiring an interest in the Jerusalem-based company. QLight Nanotech is a spin-off subsidiary of Yissum, the technology transfer company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. ... more
Kuraray Co., Ltd. and MonoSol, LLC announced that Kuraray has agreed to acquire MonoSol, a market-leading manufacturer of water-soluble polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) films. This acquisition by Kuraray supports its strategy to expand its Vinyl Acetate Chemical Chain Business. Terms of the transact ... more
Evogene Ltd. and T6 Industrial S.A., a biodiesel producer in Argentina, announced that Evofuel Ltd., Evogene's wholly owned subsidiary, and T6 Industrial, entered a collaboration for development of castor bean seeds as a sustainable and cost competitive feedstock for biodiesel production. ... more
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Central and Northern Arava R&D researchers presented the successful application of solar-powered membrane desalination to arid agriculture at the Conference on Desalination for the Environment in Barcelona late last month.Dr. Andrea Ghermandi of the Zu ... more
German specialty chemicals company LANXESS has started up on schedule a nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) plant in Nantong, China, as part of its 50:50 joint venture with Taiwan’s TSRC Corporation. The two companies have jointly invested USD 50 million (approx. EUR 39 million) in the new plant ... more
A new study shows that the availability of hydrogen plays a significant role in determining the chemical and structural makeup of graphene oxide, a material that has potential uses in nano-electronics, nano-electromechanical systems, sensing, composites, optics, catalysis and energy storage ... more
A strong laser beam can remove an electron from an atom – a process which takes place almost instantly. At the Vienna University of Technology, this phenomenon could now be studied with a time resolution of less than ten attoseconds (ten billionths of a billionth of a second). Scientists su ... more
They can be bent after all: In defiance of a decades-old assumption, gamma-rays can be focused with lenses. The discovery opens up a range of potential applications – from monitoring of nuclear waste to new cancer therapies. Gamma-rays are extremely powerful electromagnetic waves that are f ... more
The Carl Zeiss AG Supervisory Board has elected Dr. Dieter Kurz as the new Chairman of the Supervisory Board, effective immediately. Born in 1948, Dr. Dieter Kurz studied physics at the University of Tübingen, from which he also received his doctorate. He joined Carl Zeiss in 1979. After ho ... more
When an intense laser pulse interacts with an atom it generates agitation on the micro scale. A rather likely outcome of this interaction is single ionization, where one electron is ejected from the atom. From time to time, however, two electrons can be removed from the atom, resulting in t ... more
For targeted applications involving ceramic materials, precise knowledge about thermal properties is essential. These values can often be determined by means of Thermal Analysis methods. The new poster “Thermal Properties of Ceramics” offers the following important values at a glance: melti ... more
Portable gas sensors can allow you to search for explosives, diagnose medical conditions through a patient's breath, and decide whether it's safe to stay in a mine. These devices do all this by identifying and measuring airborne chemicals, and a new, more sensitive, smart model is under dev ... more
Analytik Jena AG has strengthened its sales and service presence in the Middle East region and opened an office in Dubai. From there, the Company will manage its entire sales activities in the Middle East region. The new facilities in the Silicon Oasis technology park also house a seminar a ... more
This year it is 25 years since Metrohm launched its first ion chromatograph, the 690 ion chromatograph. Since then Metrohm has profoundly changed ion chromatography with instruments that are simple to use, robust, and affordable. In the early 1980s ion chromatography was already around as a ... more
Thermo Fisher Scientific announced a new approach using high-performance anion-exchange (HPAE) chromatography with pulsed amperometric detection (PAD) for the determination of carbohydrates in extracts from instant coffee and green coffee beans. Application Note 280: "Carbohydrate in Coffee ... more
Physicists from the University of Zurich have discovered a previously unknown particle composed of three quarks in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator. A new baryon could thus be detected for the first time at the LHC. The baryon known as Xi_b^* confirms fundamental assumpt ... more
If you are not a condensed matter physicist, vanadium oxide (VO2) may be the coolest material you've never heard of. It's a metal. It's an insulator. It's a window coating and an optical switch. And thanks to a new study by physicists at Rice University, scientists have a new way to reversi ... more
Air Products has recently received the “China Best Employer Award 2011” top 100 nominaton recognizing its contribution to talent recruitment and development in China. Air Products was one of six companies from the chemical industry receiving this recognition. The award was jointly organized ... more
ELANTAS Electrical Insulation, a division of the specialty chemicals Group ALTANA AG, has acquired the casting resins business for electrical and electronic applications of the Italian Marbo Group. The casting resins business of Marbo includes products for the encapsulation or coating of el ... more
Merck announced that within the scope of a capital increase by the Israeli start-up company QLight Nanotech, it is acquiring an interest in the Jerusalem-based company. QLight Nanotech is a spin-off subsidiary of Yissum, the technology transfer company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. ... more
Kuraray Co., Ltd. and MonoSol, LLC announced that Kuraray has agreed to acquire MonoSol, a market-leading manufacturer of water-soluble polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) films. This acquisition by Kuraray supports its strategy to expand its Vinyl Acetate Chemical Chain Business. Terms of the transact ... more
Evogene Ltd. and T6 Industrial S.A., a biodiesel producer in Argentina, announced that Evofuel Ltd., Evogene's wholly owned subsidiary, and T6 Industrial, entered a collaboration for development of castor bean seeds as a sustainable and cost competitive feedstock for biodiesel production. ... more
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Central and Northern Arava R&D researchers presented the successful application of solar-powered membrane desalination to arid agriculture at the Conference on Desalination for the Environment in Barcelona late last month.Dr. Andrea Ghermandi of the Zu ... more
German specialty chemicals company LANXESS has started up on schedule a nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) plant in Nantong, China, as part of its 50:50 joint venture with Taiwan’s TSRC Corporation. The two companies have jointly invested USD 50 million (approx. EUR 39 million) in the new plant ... more
A new study shows that the availability of hydrogen plays a significant role in determining the chemical and structural makeup of graphene oxide, a material that has potential uses in nano-electronics, nano-electromechanical systems, sensing, composites, optics, catalysis and energy storage ... more
The relativistic Hall effect describing objects rotating at speeds comparable with the speed of light has now been reported. The work by Konstantin Bliokh and Franco Nori at RIKEN in Japan, NAS in Ukraine, and the University of Michigan in the US sheds light on aspects of fundamental physic ... more
A new thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) developed by Bayer MaterialScience together with the BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing in Berlin, Germany, shows that plastics can also have a memory. Parts made of such a plastic can be temporarily reshaped and fixed in this sha ... more
Kuraray Co., Ltd. and MonoSol, LLC announced that Kuraray has agreed to acquire MonoSol, a market-leading manufacturer of water-soluble polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) films. This acquisition by Kuraray supports its strategy to expand its Vinyl Acetate Chemical Chain Business. Terms of the transact ... more
With retrospective effect from January 1, 2012, Coperion s.r.l., Italy, a subsidiary of Coperion GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany, has acquired the majority holding in Weicom s.r.l., Ferrara, Italy. Weicom specializes in weighing, packaging and palletizing technology and supplies to plastics compou ... more
A new biomimetic approach to synthesising polymers will offer unprecedented control over the final polymer structure and yield advances in nanomedicine, researchers say.In a University of Warwick-led study published in the journal Nature Chemistry, researchers from the UK (Prof Rachel O’Rei ... more
The shareholders of Vinnolit appointed Dr Günter von Au, Operating Partner of the globally active private equity firm Advent International, to the Supervisory Board of Vinnolit GmbH & Co. KG, Ismaning. Serving for many years as Chairman of the Board of Süd-Chemie AG and in various managemen ... more
Bilcare Solutions, the films business of the Bilcare Research Group, increases films prices with immediate effect. “The continuous pricing dynamics for raw materials are connected with significant cost increases in the films production. Also in the actual month raw materials suppliers keep ... more
LANXESS is strengthening its ties with automotive customers in the growing Asia-Pacific region. The specialty chemicals company will open a new application development center in the Hong Kong Science & Technology Park in the second half of 2012. The new center will have computer aided devel ... more
Scott Bader Europe is increasing the prices for its Crystic® unsaturated polyester, vinyl ester, DCPD, plus all other manufactured composite products by 90€/te. This price increase will be implemented by 1st May 2012, subject to existing customer contracts. The price rise is in response to ... more
W. R. Grace & Co. announced that it has entered into an agreement with The Dow Chemical Company to develop new catalysts for polypropylene production. The catalysts, which use one of Dow’s non-phthalate internal donor technologies and Grace proprietary catalyst expertise, will be sold by Gr ... more
Electrical and electronic appliances are not only made from metallic materials, but also consist of up to more than 20% of plastics in average. These are found, for example, in casings or in base materials for circuit boards. No simple task for recycling companies, which find themselves con ... more
VWR International, LLC announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire basan Germany GmbH, including its subsidiaries and operations in The Netherlands, France, Italy, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam. The agreement is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approval in G ... more
Sartorius started off fiscal 2012 with substantial gains in order intake, sales revenue and earnings. Based on the company's excellent quarterly performance, management confirmed its full-year guidance: “In all divisions and regions, we are well on track. It is also encouraging that we have ... more
The 23rd analytica, the International Trade Fair for Laboratory Technology, Analysis and Biotechnology, concluded in Munich with more than 30,000 visitors. The three new Live Labs on the topics of Forensics and Clinical Diagnostics, Plastics Analysis and Food and Water Analysis were popular ... more
The 23rd analytica, the International Trade Fair for Laboratory Technology, Analysis and Biotechnology, has opened its gates in Munich with 1,026 exhibitors from 37 countries. This year’s fair revolves around new Live Labs, three completely equipped laboratories. In addition, the scientific ... more
Effective immediately, smartphone users and owners of mobile terminal devices can download the analytica App at analytica-app.de. With just a few clicks, interested users can access all important information that pertains to the fair – from an interactive hall diagram and program highlights ... more
Some 1,000 exhibitors from the laboratory-technology, analysis and biotechnology sectors will present their latest products at analytica in Munich from April 17 – 20. Besides the exhibition and the scientific analytica Conference, a practice-oriented program of related events awaits visitor ... more
VWR International, LLC announced that it has acquired VITRUM PRAHA S.R.O. and VITRUM ROZNOV S.R.O., two distributors of scientific laboratory supplies headquartered in Prague and Roznov. VITRUM PRAHA and VITRUM ROZNOV were founded in the early 1990's and are two well established independent ... more
Malvern Instruments has officially opened a new multipurpose facility in Houston, Texas. At 22,000 sq. ft. the new building is double the size of Malvern’s previous premises in Houston and houses state-of-the-art laboratories, product development, manufacturing and commercial operations. Th ... more
Sartorius closed the year 2011 with double-digit sales growth and boosted its earnings by nearly a third. At the annual press conference for the company in Goettingen, Germany, Group CEO Dr. Joachim Kreuzburg indicated that 2011 was an especially forward-looking year beyond the company’s fi ... more
For the first time ever, portions of analytica Halls B1, B2 and A3 will be transformed into genuine laboratory environments. International companies will present their equipment in live operation on laboratory benches. Daily experiment presentations will inform visitors about developments i ... more
Two months before the start of ACHEMA 2012, the outlook on the global flagship event for chemical engineering and biotechnology is exceedingly positive. The organizers expect a slight growth compared to the last event in 2009 when 3,767 exhibitors and more than 173,000 participants were cou ... more
The Baumer Group, an internationally leading Swiss manufacturer of sensors and measuring instruments for factory and process automation, has expanded its international sales presence with a new subsidiary in the United Arab Emirates. Baumer Middle East FZE in Dubai will draw on the decade-l ... more
As long-time guarantor of quality SensoTech passed again successfully the regular coming audit of compliance with the quality management standards as per DIN EN ISO 9001. Not only the competence and performance capability to develop and produce the measuring and analyzing instruments, but a ... more
With the acquisition of the Palme Group, the international expert organisation DEKRA gains a leading material testing and inspection provider in Turkey. In doing so, DEKRA is consistently further expanding its international network in this area. Palme is headquartered in Ankara and has a st ... more
The international expert organisation DEKRA is acquiring all shares of the testing company INCOS GmbH Ingenieurbüro in Ingolstadt. In doing so, DEKRA significantly expands its portfolio in Germany for non-destructive testing (NDT) of materials. INCOS has locations in Ingolstadt and Nurember ... more
Bilfinger Berger Industrial Services Group (BIS Group) is acquiring Are Oy Industrial Services (Are IS), a specialist in electronic instrumentation and control technology (E/I&C) in Finland. The company has around 230 employees and generates annual revenues of some EUR 25 million. The selle ... more
ITT Corporation announced that it has completed its acquisition of YSI Incorporated, forming a water-focused analytics business with annual revenue of approximately $300 million. YSI is a leading developer and manufacturer of sensors, instruments, software, and data collection platforms for ... more
Sartorius successfully closed the year 2010. Sales revenue and earnings substantially surpassed the year-earlier figures. Financial guidance for the Group, which was raised during the course of 2010, was met and even exceeded for some targets. For the current fiscal year as well, manage ... more
Bilfinger Berger has acquired British industrial service provider ATG, expanding its capacity in measurement, control and automation engineering in the United Kingdom. ATG generates an annual volume of €25 million and employs 250 people. The company had previously been owned by its mana ... more
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Central and Northern Arava R&D researchers presented the successful application of solar-powered membrane desalination to arid agriculture at the Conference on Desalination for the Environment in Barcelona late last month.Dr. Andrea Ghermandi of the Zu ... more
When manufacturing products, the coating technology is a key innovation driver for almost all areas of daily life – for example, for making scratch-proof displays for smart phones or anti-bacterial surfaces in refrigerators. Other coatings protect components from corrosion or aging, for exa ... more
Metalworking plays a key role in industry. Drilling, milling, turning and grinding operations all use lubricants to prevent work pieces and tools from overheating and from excess wear. Standard lubricants today are based on mineral oil. This has drawbacks: fossil mineral oils come from fini ... more
On May 1, ProTec Polymer Processing GmbH began business operations. This signaled the final step in the previously announced fusion of MANN+HUMMEL ProTec GmbH, Bensheim, a MANN+HUMMEL Group company, and OHL Engineering GmbH, Limburg, a company of the globally operating Schoeller Plast Indus ... more
Delegates at the 11th European Gasification conference in Cagliari, Italy, are working against a backdrop of difficult political and economic challenges according to the conference chairman, Jacobs Engineering’s John Griffiths.Griffiths used his opening remarks to highlight three key issues ... more
A team of students from the University of Manchester, UK, has been awarded an international sustainability prize by the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) in recognition of a university design project based on turning corn waste into succinic acid.The seven-strong team that clinch ... more
Emerson announced it has acquired ISE Magtech, enabling Emerson Process Management to strengthen its level measurement solutions in the oil and gas, refining, chemical and power generation industries. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. ISE Magtech designs and manufactures level ... more
GEA generated a 24.4 percent increase in its order intake to EUR 1,544.9 million in the first quarter of 2012. As in the previous quarters, this again represented a significant year-on-year increase. In line with this trend, consolidated revenue also rose by 21.7 percent year-on-year to EUR ... more
AkzoNobel Industrial Chemicals has commissioned ThyssenKrupp Uhde to design and supply the energy-saving ThyssenKrupp Uhde membrane cells for the conversion of the mercury based electrolysis plant at the Industry Park Frankfurt-Höchst into state-of-the-art membrane electrolysis technology. ... more
BASF Venture Capital GmbH has invested $7.5 million in the technology company NanoH2O, Inc. The investment is part of a$40 million equity round co-led by BASF Venture Capital together with other investors. NanoH2O develops, produces and sells reverse osmosis membranes for seawater desalinat ... more
Study shows availability of hydrogen controls chemical structure of graphene ...
Hall effect at the speed of light: How can you demonstrate relativistic effe ...
From lemons to lemonade: Using carbon dioxide to make carbon nitride
Using graphene, scientists develop a less toxic way to rust-proof steel
Hydrogen as alternative to petrol: Scientists research boron in tanks
Take-Off for PEGASOS: Jülich scientists conduct research on climate in Europ ...
Albemarle Corporation announced that it will increase prices of SAYTEX HP-900 (P)/(G) (hexabromocyclododecane) globally by 20% effective immediately, or as contracts allow. "The backbone of SAYTEX HP-900 is cyclododecatriene (CDT). We have seen extreme volatility in both price and availab ... more
Kraton Polymers LLC, a leading global producer of styrenic block copolymers or "SBCs," announces a general price increase in the Americas of 330 USD/MT or 15 cpp, for all Kraton SIS and SIBS polymers and compounds. Subject to the terms of any applicable contracts, these price increases will ... more
Kraton Polymers LLC, a leading global producer of styrenic block copolymers or "SBCs," announces a general price increase in the Asia Pacific Region of 200 USD/MT for all Kraton SIS polymers and compounds. Subject to the terms of any applicable contracts, these price increases will take eff ... more
The market experts from Ceresana forecast the global solvent market to earn revenues of about US$33 billion in 2019. Especially the dynamic economic development in emerging countries like China, India, Brazil, or Russia will continue to boost the demand for solvents. The market research ins ... more
Christian Bürkert GmbH & Co. KG won this year's IP Management Award for intellectual property. With this award the Fraunhofer IAO Institute for Industrial Engineering distinguishes companies, now for the fourth time, for their sustainable, well-aimed patent management. The award was present ... more
Russia is the second largest manufacturer of platinum group metals (PGM) and the largest producer of palladium globally. In 2010, the total Russian PGM output accounted for 34% of global production.New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Analysis of the Russian Platinum Group Metals Market, fin ... more
If you are not a condensed matter physicist, vanadium oxide (VO2) may be the coolest material you've never heard of. It's a metal. It's an insulator. It's a window coating and an optical switch. And thanks to a new study by physicists at Rice University, scientists have a new way to reversi ... more
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Central and Northern Arava R&D researchers presented the successful application of solar-powered membrane desalination to arid agriculture at the Conference on Desalination for the Environment in Barcelona late last month.Dr. Andrea Ghermandi of the Zu ... more
A new study shows that the availability of hydrogen plays a significant role in determining the chemical and structural makeup of graphene oxide, a material that has potential uses in nano-electronics, nano-electromechanical systems, sensing, composites, optics, catalysis and energy storage ... more
Dr. Peter Denifl, the mastermind behind Borealis’ new polyolefin catalyst technology, Sirius, has been awarded the Giulio Natta Award for 2012. The accolade recognises the significant contribution of Peter Denifl’s scientific activity in catalyst development, in the field of polypropylene p ... more
High-temperature superconductors can be manufactured much more efficiently and with less environmental impact by means of the innovative production process developed by technology company Deutsche Nanoschicht GmbH. Superconductors carry current virtually without loss, so they allow potentia ... more
For targeted applications involving ceramic materials, precise knowledge about thermal properties is essential. These values can often be determined by means of Thermal Analysis methods. The new poster “Thermal Properties of Ceramics” offers the following important values at a glance: melti ... more
Air Products has recently received the “China Best Employer Award 2011” top 100 nominaton recognizing its contribution to talent recruitment and development in China. Air Products was one of six companies from the chemical industry receiving this recognition. The award was jointly organized ... more
ELANTAS Electrical Insulation, a division of the specialty chemicals Group ALTANA AG, has acquired the casting resins business for electrical and electronic applications of the Italian Marbo Group. The casting resins business of Marbo includes products for the encapsulation or coating of el ... more
Merck announced that within the scope of a capital increase by the Israeli start-up company QLight Nanotech, it is acquiring an interest in the Jerusalem-based company. QLight Nanotech is a spin-off subsidiary of Yissum, the technology transfer company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. ... more
Torgeir Kvidal is appointed acting Yara CFO and Jan Duerloo is appointed acting Head of Yara Upstream. Hallgeir Storvik and Tor Holba are at their own request stepping out of their executive management positions with immediate effect, until the situation is resolved with regard to the Økokr ... more
Effective June 1, 2012, Inese Lowenstein will become Head of the Pigments & Cosmetics business unit at Merck. Lowenstein is Director of Marketing in the Process Solutions business unit of Merck Millipore. She joined Millipore in 2003. From 1999 to 2003, Lowenstein held various management po ... more
The Carl Zeiss AG Supervisory Board has elected Dr. Dieter Kurz as the new Chairman of the Supervisory Board, effective immediately. Born in 1948, Dr. Dieter Kurz studied physics at the University of Tübingen, from which he also received his doctorate. He joined Carl Zeiss in 1979. After ho ... more
German specialty chemicals company LANXESS has started up on schedule a nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) plant in Nantong, China, as part of its 50:50 joint venture with Taiwan’s TSRC Corporation. The two companies have jointly invested USD 50 million (approx. EUR 39 million) in the new plant ... more
In order to restructure its business portfolio and address underperforming assets, Albemarle Corporation announced that it plans to exit its existing phosphorous flame retardants business. Albemarle currently produces phosphorus flame retardants, part of its Polymer Solutions business segme ... more
Evonik Industries (Germany) announces a capacity increase of ThreAMINO® (L-threonine) at Evonik Agroferm Zrt., a 100% affiliated company of Evonik, in Kaba, Hungary. The nameplate capacity is expected to be expanded to 30,000 metric tons L-threonine (feed grade 98.5%) per annum, which repre ... more
A new thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) developed by Bayer MaterialScience together with the BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing in Berlin, Germany, shows that plastics can also have a memory. Parts made of such a plastic can be temporarily reshaped and fixed in this sha ... more
Sasol Limited’s Olefins & Surfactants Division announced it will expand in a first step its capacity to produce ultra-high purity aluminas (UHPA) by at least 3000 metric tons per year.Construction will begin immediately at Brunsbuettel, the company’s Germany manufacturing site on a process ... more
Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc. has announced that it has commenced consultations with the Works Council to cease production of formaldehyde and formaldehyde-based resins at its Leuna site operated by Momentive Specialty Chemicals Forest Products GmbH. This action will better align Europ ... more
“Merck delivered a reasonable operating performance in the face of a difficult year-over-year comparison,” said Karl-Ludwig Kley, Chairman of the Executive Board of Merck. “During the first quarter, we kicked off our efficiency program and announced the first planned initiatives as part of ... more
Oxea announced a significant earnings increase for the first quarter of 2012 compared to the fourth quarter of 2011. Net sales of €372 million were up by 13% and Adjusted EBITDA amounted to €45million reflecting an increase of 25% from the fourth quarter of 2011. After a challenging fourth ... more
Brenntag continued to grow earnings in the first quarter of 2012. Earnings development was supported by organic growth as well as through the contribution of acquisitions made in 2011, especially the Multisol group in Europe and the Zhong Yung group in China. Sales increased by 10.4% based ... more
BASF and Volkswagen are launching an international initiative to promote research in the electrochemistry field. The “Science Award Electrochemistry” is intended to promote outstanding scientific and engineering achievements and provide impetus for the development of high-performance energy ... more
Within a Gala at the Palladion XXI in Vienna, on Thursday March 15th the organization Great Place to Work announced Austria’s best employers. The award “Austria’s best Employers 2012” was granted to 29 companies, in front of an audience of about 360 guests, Minister for Social Affairs Rudol ... more
Tikkurila has concluded the co-operation negotiations started in November 2011. The negotiations targeted all personnel groups and functions of Tikkurila Oyj in Finland. As a result of the negotiations, a total of 62 persons, working in various functions of the company, will be dismissed. O ... more
Evogene Ltd. and T6 Industrial S.A., a biodiesel producer in Argentina, announced that Evofuel Ltd., Evogene's wholly owned subsidiary, and T6 Industrial, entered a collaboration for development of castor bean seeds as a sustainable and cost competitive feedstock for biodiesel production. ... more
The Munich-based WACKER group is stepping up its cooperation with Italian silicone rubber compounder TSF S.r.l.. According to a recently signed agreement, TSF will receive high-quality silicone raw materials from WACKER, which will be used to produce sophisticated silicone rubber compounds ... more
The XIAMETER® brand from Dow Corning Corporation has appointed Biesterfeld Spezialchemie GmbH as its master distributor for silicone elastomers throughout Europe. “We are pleased to be named the master distributor of silicone rubber products for the XIAMETER® brand from Dow Corning,” said D ... more
ECHA invites the parties concerned to comment on five new proposals for harmonised classification and labelling (CLH): Isoxaflutole, Tembotrione, Metosulam, Potassium sorbate and Tetrakis(2,6-dimethylphenyl)-m-phenylene biphosphate. The public consultation will be open for 45 days and will ... more
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), at the request of the European Commission, has reviewed the scientific evidence on the risks posed by articles containing the phthalates DINP and DIDP.Based on an existing restriction, these phthalates cannot be used in toys and childcare articles which ... more
Oxea, the international chemical company, announced that it is one of the first in its sector to have received certification from KPMG Cert for its energy management system in accordance with the new international standard ISO 50001. Oxea's energy management system helps the company to cond ... more
Delegates at the 11th European Gasification conference in Cagliari, Italy, are working against a backdrop of difficult political and economic challenges according to the conference chairman, Jacobs Engineering’s John Griffiths.Griffiths used his opening remarks to highlight three key issues ... more
Chemistry remains central to the clean-up and continuation of nuclear R&D, a panel of experts including the government’s chief scientific adviser. Professor Sir John Beddington, the keynote speaker at a Royal Society of Chemistry symposium, told the gathering of policy-makers and academics ... more
The UK economy cannot afford the wastage in talent that comes when women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) careers leave their profession prematurely, according to a new report.Tapping all our Talents says that “expensively trained women are lost in larger proportions tha ... more
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