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Tara Conley, Global Director of Regulatory Affairs, Microban International, discusses how global regulations impact antimicrobial development, and the implications for chemical manufacturers. Microbial growth on products and substances can result in a plethora of challenges...

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has published a consultation on extending the UK REACH submission deadlines for transitional registrations. In December 2021 Defra committed to exploring alternative arrangements for UK REACH...

The Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change (MoEUCC) has recently sent a warning message to all potential registrants; “Chemicals cannot be placed on the Turkish market after the deadline of 31 December 2023...

New and increasingly stringent regulations, combined with disruption from Covid, Brexit and the Ukraine crisis, are causing ongoing issues for the industry. Tim Doggett, Chief Executive of the Chemical Business Association (CBA), discusses their...

By Robert Smith, Customer Services Executive at Pricefx Business plans and targets for 2022 need to be redrawn in the face of persistently volatile market conditions. Robert Smith, of Pricefx, explains how businesses can maintain focus...

Mounting pressures across the globe to allow more cost-effective, higher throughput, non-vertebrate chemical safety testing are at last bringing much needed change. The US Environmental Protection Agency has made commitments to reduce vertebrate animal...

Stephane Konarkowski, security consultant at Outpost24, warns that cybercrime is a massive and growing threat to the industry. Chemical manufacturing as a broad term encapsulates a wide variety of processes and procedures that manifest in...

For years, chemical manufacturers and distributors enjoyed a relatively stable industry. However, the last two years have forced chemical companies into a choice: use digital technologies to drive growth or be left with an...

CCDC, Exscientia, and Oxford University are collaborating on an automated, quantitative method for informing the design of compound selectivity across protein families. The amount of structural data on protein drug targets continues to grow. However,...

The phosphine ligand is available on the kilo scale for the first time, providing scientists with a powerful solution for cross-coupling chemistry. Advanced homogeneous catalysts and ligands producer, Sinocompound Catalysts Co., Ltd, has made phosphine-based...