Argentina’s National Service of Health and Food Quality (Senasa) has banned the import, commercialization and use of insecticides/acaricides based on dichlorvos, which is used on tobacco and grain storage facilities, in keeping with international norms for residue of pesticide. The norm forces companies in the agrochemical sector who register products that contain this active principle to […]
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Lord Corporation to invest in $80 million expansion
Lord Corporation has announced plans to expand and upgrade operations at its Saegertown, PA (USA) facility with an investment of $80 million over the next 5 years. The company plans to add various adhesive and coating product lines and provide overall modernization to the site. Work will begin in May and continue through 2023, adding […]
Lanxess builds prepolymers production plant in Brazil
Lanxess is building a new, state-of-the-art facility for the production of prepolymers at its site in Porto Feliz, Brazil. The Urethane Systems business unit is investing to expand its prepolymer production capacity, which is scheduled to come on stream in the first half of 2019. Current production at the Rio Claro site, about 200km away, […]
AbbVie donates $100 million to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico
AbbVie, a research-based global biopharmaceutical company, yesterday announced a donation of $100 million to two organizations, Direct Relief and Habitat for Humanity International, to strengthen access to healthcare and housing in Puerto Rico. The organizations will receive $50 million each. This donation is an extension of the more than $4 million AbbVie provided following the […]
STLE elects Greg Croce as 2018-2019 President
The Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE) – the technical society serving individuals, companies and organizations that comprise the tribology and lubrication engineering business sector – today announced that Greg Croce, Delo Global Brand technical manager for Chevron Products Company, a division of Chevron U.S.A. Inc., and former treasurer, secretary and vice president of […]
Enhancing the efficiency of styrene polymerization
Syrris, a world leader in flow chemistry, is helping to support research into process optimization for styrene polymerization. The availability of lower cost packaging materials in the market has driven research into more efficient production methods – supported by fast screening of reaction parameters – to achieve higher monomer to polymer conversion rates. Professor Ardson […]
MilliporeSigma launches fragrance allergen test calibrants
Last year, the International Fragrance Association (IFRA) published a new method to test 57 potentially allergenic fragrances. This was in response to a request by the European Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS), which also proposed a corresponding amendment to the EC regulation No. 1223/2009. The new analytical method developed by the IFRA Analytical Working […]
Eurofragrance introduces Nomad Tales at Beautyworld Middle East
At the Beautyworld Middle East 2018 event, Eurofragrance launched its Nomad Tales collection, a series of four exclusive scents inspired by travel and the four elements. Created by four senior Eurofragrance perfumers, the fragrances are artistic explorations of olfactive memories and include: Jasmineair. Created by perfumer Soizic Beaucourt, this fragrance is a blend of jasmine […]
Clariant showcases innovative and safe low-foaming emulsifiers for metal working fluids
Clariant, a world-leader in specialty chemicals, will be showcasing a number of recently launched emulsifiers to replace traditional alcohol ethoxylate-based products for metal working fluid formulations at the STLE Annual Meeting and Exposition in Minneapolis. The new products – Emulsogen MTP 020, Emulsogen MTP 030 and Emulsogen MTP 090 – join Clariant’s well-known Emulsogen MTP […]
SUEZ and Veolia to build €275m drinking water plant in Bangladesh
Suez and Veolia have bagged a €275m contract from the Dhaka Water Supply & Sewerage Authority (WASA) to set up a drinking water production plant in Gandharbpur, Bangladesh. The project will be executed by an equal stake joint venture (JV) established by SUEZ and Veolia, through a unit of Veolia Water Technologies. The contract covers […]