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EHS Daily Advisor | February 03, 2020

The authority of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) to subpoena information relating to potential future risks was affirmed by a panel of judges with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. The defendant in the case had contended that the CSB’s subpoena authority was limited to information about the cause or probable cause of an accidental chemical release that occurred in 2015, not about any event that hasn’t happened. A U.S. District Court judge ag...

CHEMICAL MANAGEMENT

Trinseo | December 09, 2021

Trinseo, a global materials solutions provider and manufacturer of plastics and latex binders, announced its entry into a definitive agreement to acquire Heathland B.V. a leading collector and recycler of post-consumer and post-industrial plastic wastes in Europe. As a plastic waste collector and recycler based in Utrecht, the Netherlands, Heathland is focused on converting PCR and PIR polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), polycarbonate (PC), acrylonitrile butadiene styrene ...

CHEMICAL MANAGEMENT

Datacor, NACD | June 02, 2021

Datacor, Inc., a leading provider of process manufacturing and distribution software, and the National Association of Chemical Distributors (NACD) released their 2021 State of the Chemical Industry Report today, which measures their organization's and the industry's experiences, challenges, and takeaways from 2020, as well as their plans and expectations for both their organization and the industry in 2021. The report is based on a survey of 200 industry experts from various job function...

Icis | April 27, 2020

US-listed shares of chemical companies rose sharply on Monday, breaking from the drop in oil prices. The European Petrochemical Association (EPCA) 54th annual meeting in October has been cancelled to avoid “undue risk” of coronavirus spread, but the trade group is mulling a virtual format. There has been a pull on purified terephthalic acid (PTA) from downstream polyethylene terephthalate (PET) applications that are considered essential amid the pandemic, but the tide may be t...