Tag: Chemicals
Europe: IMCD to buy US specialty chemicals company
IMCD N.V. says it will acquire 80% of US specialty chemicals company The M.F. Cachat Company, including 100% of MJS Sales, Inc.
Initially IMCD will...
Asia Pacific: BASF releases book in China, celebrates 150 years
On the occasion of BASF’s 150th anniversary, BASF has published a book about its history in China, entitled Breaking New Ground.
The Chinese language version...
Europe: Danish researchers find chemical cocktail effects in food
A recently completed, four-year research project on cocktail effects in foods, led by the National Food Institute, has established that when two or more...
Americas: USP proposes documents into Food Chemicals Codex, introduces guidance on...
The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is proposing new monographs and introducing the Guidance on Food Fraud Mitigation to be included in its Food Chemicals...
Asia Pacific: Food, pharmaceutical, household chemicals sectors boost China’s packaging machinery...
In 2013, China manufactured 109,800 sets of packaging equipment, up 13.46% year on year, generating total revenue of RMB27.095 billion (US$4.44 billion), a jump...
Asia Pacific: Brenntag to acquire specialties chemicals distribution business of Pioma...
Brenntag has signed an agreement to acquire the specialties chemicals distribution business of Pioma Chemicals, a distributor of specialty excipients and functional ingredients to...
Asia Pacific: BASF, PETRONAS Chemicals Group to build aroma ingredients complex...
Malaysian prime minister Dato Sri Mohd Najib Tun Abdul Razak officiated at the groundbreaking of an integrated aroma ingredients complex, set up by BASF...
Asia Pacific: Survey finds urbanization, sustainability to drive chemicals, materials and...
Urbanization, which is changing the lifestyle of consumers, is creating more interest towards new packaging technologies and products, according to a new insight based...
Europe: COT publishes position paper on aspartame study
UK-based Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer products and the Environment (COT) has peered reviewed a double blind randomized crossover study of...