Chemitop South Africa

Channelnewsasia | June 17, 2020

Bayer said on Tuesday (Jun 16) it will scrap a nearly US$1 billion project to produce the chemical dicamba in the United States, but said the move is unrelated to a federal court decision that blocked sales of weed killers based on the product. The German-based company is moving to save cash as it wages an expensive legal battle to fight allegations that another product, its glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup, causes cancer. Bayer denies the claims. The company said it is halting work on a new...

Chemical Management

ICE and Hedge | December 10, 2021

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. a leading global provider of data, technology, and market infrastructure, announced that it plans to launch its first ethylene futures contracts on December 13. Designed for participants who need to manage their exposure to ethylene price risk from the U.S. Gulf Coast to Asia, the two cash settled futures contracts are based on ethylene price assessments by ICIS. The ICIS CFR NE Asia ethylene assessment and the ICIS CFR SE Asia ethylene ...

CNET | January 28, 2020

When chemicals are carelessly stored, mixed together or even disposed of, fires, explosions and injuries can result. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2019, it's estimated that at least 4,500 injuries a year happen not in a lab but at home when people mix the wrong swimming pool chemicals together. But a new open-source computer program called ChemStor might prevent these dangerous situations from happening -- in labs, offices, schools and homes -- by warning u...

Agilis Chemicals | October 01, 2020

Agilis Chemicals, a leading provider of commerce platform for the chemical industry, announced today a collaboration with UL, a leading safety science company. As part of the collaboration agreement, Agilis shall extend its flagship commerce platform to more than 4500 suppliers and hundreds of thousands of end-users of chemicals on the UL Prospector® platform, the largest network of chemical buyers and suppliers in the world....