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Cen | June 02, 2020

Chemical makers must curb ethylene oxide leaks, though not nearly as much as the US Environmental Protection Agency had proposed last year. Chemical production facilities collectively will have to cut emissions of this carcinogenic gas from storage tanks, vents, and leaky equipment by 0.69 metric tons per year, under a rule the EPA unveiled June 1. This is less than a tenth of the reduction of ethylene oxide releases by manufacturers of miscellaneous organic chemicals that the agency proposed in...

Chemistry world | August 25, 2020

Bicyclic thiolactone building block makes for high-quality polymers with chemical recyclability. An entirely new class of polymers that matches popular plastics’ thermal and mechanical properties but has the potential to be recycled and reused indefinitely has been developed by scientists in the US, China and Saudi Arabia. Plastic pollution is one of the greatest environmental problems of our time, so creating polymers that can be turned back into their monomer building blocks for reuse is...

prnewswire | February 19, 2020

The "Textile Finishing Chemicals Market by Type (Softening Finishes, Repellent Finishes, Wrinkle Free Finishes, Coating Finishes, Mothproofing Finishes), Process (Pad-Dry Cure Process, Exhaust Dyeing Process), Application , Region - Global Forecast to 2024" report has been added to Research And Markets.com's offering. The global textile finishing chemicals market size is expected to grow from USD 6.2 billion in 2019 to USD 8.2 billion by 2024, at a CAGR of 5.5% during the forecast ...

Chemical Watch | March 11, 2020

Regulators from the US and Canada have laid out plans to coordinate efforts on workplace hazard communication standards as the two countries implement updates to the UN's Globally Harmonized System of classification and labelling of chemicals (GHS). According to the US-Canada Regulatory Cooperation Council (RCC) 2019-20 workplan, released this week, the council expects to roll out joint guidance on the implementation of GHS and interpreting requirements for safety data sheets (SDSs) and comm...