Recent Industrial-Chemical Articles
Insurance Industry Is Rethinking Cat Modeling After Last Year’s Disasters
After Hurricane Harvey swept through Texas last August, it left behind not only an estimated…
International Review: Can design brings color to the outdoor paint category
Bright and quirky, branding for new U.K. outdoor paint brand Thorndown was wholly inspired by…
Kärcher wins the Amsterdam Innovation Award 2018
The overall winner – out of a total of 89 entries – of the Amsterdam…
TechNation: Claroty Raises $60 Million for Cybersecurity to Protect Industrial Equipment
Our take: Israel’s digital offering gets underway with subsidized R&D program... | --------- Claroty, an Israeli…
L Catterton in acquisition deal of Italian plastic packaging manufacturer
The Greenwich-based private equity firm L Catterton has teamed up with the Italian private equity…
Two important crop nutrition trends holding producers’ attention
As ag retailers and producers prepare for the 2018 growing season, they undoubtedly will be…
Chinaplas: Rigid enforcement of environmental restrictions disrupts plastic additive supply chain
China’s crackdown on errant polluters that started in 2016 is affecting the global supply chain…
Emissions standards compelling additive manufacturers to innovate
TMR Research study indicates product innovation is now the focus for the leading players in…
Nickel Is the New Key to Recycling C02 Emissions
Serving the 21st Century Design Engineer Researchers at Harvard, Stanford, and Brookhaven National Lab have…
International Review: Shrink Sleeve Design for Egg-Shaped Cleaner
Clondalkin Flexible Packaging Bury has designed a shrink sleeve for Ecoegg, overcoming the technical challenge…
KHS USA Buys Assets of Scandia Packaging Machinery
KHS USA, Inc. is to buy the assets of Scandia Packaging Machinery Co., based in…
Convenience stores getting squeezed by… convenience
The U.S. convenience store industry is facing an inconvenient truth: Americans are changing the way…
Expert View: How carbon-14 testing is critical in screening ‘natural’ ingredients for cosmetics.
Growing numbers of health and environmentally conscious consumers are opting for cosmetics labelled “natural” while…
For state insurance officials, ‘public adjuster’ can be a problem
Shhh. There’s a term state insurance officials apparently dare not use right now. That term…
Engineers get a grip on slippery surfactants
A Rice University group's innovative surfactant theory removes limitations of a 100-year-old model for interfacial…
Lithium Seen as Lifeline for Oil Majors in Clean Energy Future
Lithium could be a lifeline for oil majors as the energy industry shifts toward lower-polluting…
Europe’s largest retailer commits billions to e-commerce
Carrefour, second only to Walmart in the retail world, has big plans to change. New…
SK’s Lubricant Unit Revs Up Overseas Push
SEOUL, Apr. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Lubricants Co., a unit of the country’s top…
Packaging is a product’s primary brand ambassador
The medium is the message, the adage goes, and therefore the packaging is part of…
Shell pushes lubricants’ larger role in freight efficiency with Starship Project
Unlike tractor OEMs, trailer manufacturers and component suppliers that can point to tangible fuel-saving benefits…
RelaDyne Enters Florida lubricant industry through acquisitions
RelaDyne, one of the nation's leading providers of lubricants, fuel, diesel exhaust fluid (DEF), and…
Study: Advertising Influences Majority of Consumers to Buy
A new study finds that consumers currently trust traditional advertising more than digital advertising. How…
Dutch company offering preservative-free dips with extended shelf life
Lazy Foods, based in Ridderkerk, is an up-and-coming business specializing in the production of fresh…
Dollar General expanding, seeking new vendors
Dollar General is seeking to expand and diversity its merchandise, including its food offering, according…
Meeting The Chemical Purity Requirements To Support Next-Generation Technologies
Mega-trends like artificial intelligence and robotics, smart homes and cars, and the Internet of Things…
Calumet And Monument Chemical Enter Partnership
Calumet's Penreco branded product lines of White Oil and Petrolatums will be exclusively distributed by Monument…
Clued up, not glued – using lubricants to enhance corrugator performance
Demand for corrugated packaging is projected to increase by an average of more than four…
Results pending as Reedy kicks off 2nd lithium brine hole
Aspiring lithium brines developer Reedy Lagoon is about to commence another diamond drill hole at…
Imperial Dade acquires US firm Gulf Coast Paper
Imperial Dade, a distributor of disposable food service and janitorial supplies, has acquired US-based Gulf…
Alpla plans to establish a new Rigid Plastic Packaging Plant in Dayton, Ohio
Alpenplastik Lehner Alwin GmbH (ALPLA, Inc.) is a global manufacturer of rigid plastic packaging for…
Should you have branded packaging for your deliveries?
The packaging of your products is just as important as the product itself, and so…
Online Ag Retail Gaining Momentum For ’18
Online purchases of crop inputs have attracted renewed interest. Although many consumer segments have been…
Gerresheimer acquires Sensile to develop smart drug delivery systems
Summary: The goal of combining the two companies includes developing new delivery systems with digital…
AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals completes acquisition of Polinox
AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals has completed its acquisition of Brazilian firm Polinox. The deal covers Polinox…
Vector Chemicals Invigorated by new investors
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio –Thirty-five years ago, Ed Geddes seized on a revolutionary idea while employed at…
Changes on tap at U.S. government Chemical Safety Board
Our take: Sutherland cuts short her board term, joins Norfolk Southern... | ------------ After a…
Justrite Safety Group Acquires Eagle Manufacturing Co.
DES PLAINES, IL — Justrite Safety Group, a supplier of products for the safe management of…
Messer opens new competence center in Krefeld
Messer Group GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany; www.messergroup.com) opened a new competence center in Krefeld on…
Chemical Processor Acquires Rubber Additives Pre-Weigh Supplier
Our take: Acquisition provides for continued production of pre-weigh additives and an expansion of capabilities…
Castrol: Peak for lubricant industry still 15 years away
A S Ramchander: "In the future, product, brand and industry lifecycles are going to get…
Novio Packaging completes acquisition of Haal Verpakkingen
Novio Packaging Group has completed the acquisition of Haal Verpakkingen, for an undisclosed fee. Netherlands-based…
Review: Fette Compacting Presents New FEC20 Capsule Filling Machine at Achema
Fette Compacting is presenting its new FEC20 capsule filling machine at Achema in Frankfurt. As…
International Update: The 10 green chemicals that could change UK industry
Simon McQueen-Mason, Network Director of The Lignocellulosic Biorefinery Network (LBNet), believes a bio-based green chemical revolution could…
Industry insights: What is Hydrogenation?
Summary: In this interview, Eric Dabe, Sales Director at Nel Hydrogen, talks to AZoM about…
Product Packaging Reveals Retail Secrets
As people more frequently buy products online, product packaging is changing in a way that…
Bain Enters Exclusive Talks with Ardian to Buy Italian Chemicals Maker
Private-equity firm Bain Capital Private Equity is in exclusive talks with fellow firm Ardian to…
Filtration membrane switches between filtering oil and water
Sometimes, people want to clean up polluted water, by removing spilled oil from its surface.…
Sulapac and Fazer to develop biodegradable food packaging
Finnish firm Sulapac has partnered with Fazer to research, develop and test plastic-free, biodegradable packaging…
Sedgwick acquires Cunningham Lindsey
Sedgwick has completed the acquisition of claims management and risk solutions firm Cunningham Lindsey. The…
Solid lubricant coating is NASA’s Invention of the Year
Engineers at NASA's Glenn Research Center have invented a new solid lubricant coating for high-temperature…
Broken nanodiamonds create a super-long-lasting, very-low-friction dry lubricant
"Broken nanodiamonds are forever," or so says a team of scientists at the US Department…
RelaDyne Acquires A&W Oil & Tire Company of Augusta
CINCINNATI -- RelaDyne, one of the nation's leading providers of lubricants, fuel, diesel exhaust fluid…
Insurance trails behind banking, retail on customer experience
Our take: When it comes to delivering superior customer experience, the insurance industry is placed…
Diluteze aims to provide a simpler, safer way to handle chemicals
Diluteze founder Simon Ruddy first spotted the gap in the market for a safer way…
Israelis develop system for cleaning industrial pollution
Summary: Phased transaction extraction (PTE) uses a combination of methods to remove industrial pollution... |…
Blakely: How text message strategy creates loyalty
Ford Blakely recently published an article about utilizing a strategy for text messaging and how…
Chemical Industry Reaches for Sustainability
GENEVA, Switzerland (ENS) – The World Business Council for Sustainable Development, WBCSD, is launching a…
LyondellBasell eyes plastic maker acquisition
Houston petrochemical company LyondellBasell said Thursday that it will buy Ohio plastics maker A. Schulman…
The 10 green chemicals driving a disruptive new industry
The UK government should focus on 10 specific bio-based chemicals to boost industrial growth, jobs, trade…
Researchers engineer yeast to grow on xylose
Researchers at Tufts University have created a genetically modified yeast that can more efficiently consume…
