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• BASF to strengthen competitiveness of its Performance Products segment

  BASF is taking a number of steps to strengthen the competitiveness of its Performance Products segment. The segment bundles BASF’s businesses with chemicals that improve the properties of many different end-user products. The portfolio includes ingredients for personal care, cosmetics, pharmaceutica more

• DKSH acquires specialty chemicals distributor Staerkle & Nagler

  DKSH, the Market Expansion Services provider with a focus on Asia, has acquired the Swiss specialty chemicals distributor Staerkle & Nagler, thereby complementing its market leadership in Asia by strengthening the European operations of its Business UnitPerformance Materials. With this move, DKSH is more

• Study reveals clues to cause of hydrogen embrittlement in metals

  Hydrogen, the lightest element, can easily dissolve and migrate within metals to make these otherwise ductile materials brittle and substantially more prone to failures.  Since the phenomenon was discovered in 1875, hydrogen embrittlement has been a persistent problem for the design of structural ma more

White papers Switzerland

• DKSH Performance Materials: Introduction of new program to source products
  

  Even under pressure to reduce costs, effective cooperation and hard work will always find a way to fulfill expectations. Most global players in the pharmaceutical industry are facing dramatic changes: blockbuster products launched in the 1990s will lose their patents over the next few years and face competition which will threaten their steady earnings more

• SRI Gaschromatographs: "Customized GC" since 1986
  

  Since 1986 SRI Instruments Inc. (Las Vegas) develops gas chromatography systems with the main objective to build an instrument which can easily be adapted to the customer's needs. The result was a modular built GC which can be equipped with up to six different detectors to cover a wide range of analytical methods more

• Size and element specific determination of Ag nanoparticles in consumer spray products using asymmetric flow field flow fractionation (AF4) coupled to ICPMS
  

  The use of nanoparticles in consumer products shows a tremendous increase over the past years. A study of the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars reported that between 2005 and today the number of products based on nanoparticles increased almost twentyfold from 54 to 1015. As active compounds these products contain ZnO for surface protection, TiO2 for sun screen or Ag for anti-bacterial purposes, only to name a few applications. Furthermore, Si, C and Au are frequently used. So far, no data are available concerning the release and the behaviour of nanoparticles during the spray process. Therefore, in spite of their beneficial properties, possible risks for humans and the environment need to be thoroughly investigated. Especially the exposure pathway via the lung seems to be very critical, as could be shown in a study recently published in the Journal of Nanoparticle Research more

Publications Switzerland

• Argon Concentration Time-Series As a Tool to Study Gas Dynamics in the Hyporheic Zone

  The oxygen dynamics in the hyporheic zone of a peri-alpine river (Thur, Switzerland), were studied through recording and analyzing the concentration time-series of dissolved argon, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and temperature during low flow conditions, for a period of one week. The argon concentration t more

• Concentrations in Ambient Air and Emissions of Cyclic Volatile Methylsiloxanes in Zurich, Switzerland

  Tens of thousands of tonnes of cyclic volatile methylsiloxanes (cVMS) are used each year globally, which leads to high and continuous cVMS emissions to air. However, field measurements of cVMS in air and empirical information about emission rates to air are still limited. Here we present measurement more

• Variability of Affective Responses to Odors: Culture, Gender, and Olfactory Knowledge

  Emotion and odor scales (EOS) measuring odor-related affective feelings were recently developed for three different countries (Switzerland, United Kingdom, and Singapore). The first aim of this study was to investigate gender and cultural differences in verbal affective response to odors, measured more

Market studies Switzerland

• Peru Agribusiness Report Q3 2012

  BMI View: Peru's agricultural exports grew by 16.6% year-on-year (y-o-y) in value terms over the first quarter of 2012 to reach US$915.mn, according to Ministry of Agriculture data. Higher export prices for a number of key products, including coffee, mangoes, avocado, asparagus and evaporated milk, more

• Man-Made Fibres - Western Europe

  This market research report package offers an in-depth perspective on the actual market situation, trends and future outlook for man-made fibre markets in Western Europe. The analyses provide essential market information for decision-makers including: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germ more

• Flexible Plastic Packaging in Switzerland to 2015: Market Profile

  ICD Research's "Flexible Plastic Packaging in Switzerland to 2015: Market Profile" is an essential source of information on market opportunities adopted to gain market share in the Switzerland packaging industry. In particular, it offers in-depth analysis of the following: • Market Opportunity and more

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