Global Gums & Chemicals

Digital Commerce 360 | February 17, 2020

We experimented in the second half of 2019 with selected pilot customers in the U.S.,” says CheMondis managing director Sebastian Brenner. We are planning to look at a potential roll-out in the second half of 2020—the U.S. is a significant market for chemical products. Details on which U.S. chemical manufacturers, distributors and other buyers and sellers CheMondis is working with weren’t released, but globally CheMondis is making progress building up marketplace buyers and sel...

Prnewswire | October 23, 2020

According to the American Chemistry Council (ACC), the U.S. Chemical Production Regional Index (U.S. CPRI) rose 0.8 percent in September following a 0.8 percent gain in August and a 1.0 percent increase in July. During September, chemical output expanded in all regions, with the largest gains occurring in the Northeast. The U.S. CPRI is measured on a three-month moving average (3MMA) basis. In September, chemical production continued to improve in many segments, including, chlor-alkali, organic ...

Phys | August 06, 2020

Real-time measurements captured by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory provide missing insight into chemical separations to recover cobalt, a critical raw material used to make batteries and magnets for modern technologies. Results published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, track the dynamics of molecules designed to grab cobalt from solutions containing a mixture of similar species. "Understanding the molecular events that make it possible to...

Business Wire | April 14, 2020

In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, global software developer eschbach today announced that it has created new guidelines for how companies in the pharmaceutical, chemical, food processing, power and utility industries can use its software solutions to keep production going efficiently and safely. Specifically, risks of shift-to-shift contamination can be significantly reduced by switching to virtual shift handovers and reducing personal visits to sites by supporting remote teams to wor...