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The Dangers of Handling Chemicals

We hear the stories too often: someone improperly mixes cleaning chemicals, which leads to a strange odor. Everyone evacuates the building. People are taken to the hospital for precautionary measures, but in a best-case-scenario, there’s no injury.But in some cases, there are injuries. Like the chemical mixing incident where an Idaho woman drank iced tea mixed with a cleaning solution and nearly died.

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Apex Industrial Chemicals ltd

We are a local company based in Aberdeen Scotland, situated in the heart of the oil and gas industry. Providing quality, service and excellence, we are driven by our culture of continuous service improvement. Apex believe that by providing our customer with the product they require, in the location it is needed, with “always available” product guidance provides our customers with the best possible support for their industrial chemical requirements. Company wide commitment to customer satisfaction and to providing to the needs of the customer with outstanding customer care is our business ethos. Apex Industrial Chemicals is widely known for its fast response times and the matching of orders to niche markets.

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The Dangers of Handling Chemicals