Ready Foods cuts cooling time by 33% with HRS Heat Exchangers
Ready Foods, a US manufacturer of soups and sauces, has cut the time it takes to chill one of its core products by a third, thanks to a turnkey cooling system from HRS Heat...
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Poison centres: Start making preparations today!
By Jenny Butcher, Chemicals Executive, REACHReady
Setting the Scene
Back in 2016 Member States voted in favour on the Commission’s proposal to harmonise information submitted to poison centres on hazardous mixtures. Following this vote Annex VIII to CLP...
The Advantages of Cooling Tower Tuning
Cooling tower OEMs often assemble their systems from a collection of components manufactured by multiple suppliers selected to meet both technical and commercial challenges to create a bespoke range of cooling towers.
There are a...
DSEAR Compliance: Beyond Hazardous Area Classification
The Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations (DSEAR) are in place to ensure that establishments with substances which could cause an ignited incident have identified and appropriately managed their risks, but when we think...
Legislation for aerosols
In addition to providing technical advice and a wide range of business support services for companies operating in every part of the aerosol supply chain, an integral part of the work undertaken by the...
Modernising OPRA
For some years, the Environment Agency (EA) has used its Operator Risk Appraisal (OPRA) system to score sites operating under an environmental permit according to their environmental risk.
The OPRA score is derived each...
Regulation should not stifle Innovation
The chemical industry has long been bound by some of the world’s most stringent regulations but there is a growing movement to regard them not as a necessary evil rather as an opportunity to...
REACH – Complex Substance Identities
The issue of determining substance identity and substance sameness has proven to have been a complex task to date within REACH SIEFs and Consortia. This is particularly apparent in the case of complex substances,...
Warning for European chemical industry
A report by the European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic) has shown that, despite growing global demand for chemicals and the better environmental and energy efficiency performance of the EU chemical industry, competitive pressures on...