Manager’s Playbook for Getting Value from AI in the Chemicals Sector

whitePaper | November 25, 2022

In specialty chemicals, R&D teams have long struggled to deliver the results investors expect.

whitePaper | April 30, 2021

At the height of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, consumers around the world experienced a supply shortage related to alcohol-based hand sanitizer. As new producers entered the market, and existing manufacturers sought to ramp-up production to meet the growing demand, lower grades of ethanol and isopropanol (IPA) started to appear on the market. To ensure the safety and efficacy of hand sanitizer products, it is recommended that manufacturers test their products to ensure appropriate levels of active ingredients, as well as a means of ensuring label-claim accuracy. In this application note, an efficient and simple, “dilute and shoot” method for the analysis of IPA and ethanol in hand sanitizer products is detailed. With a run-time of only 5.36 minutes per sample, this method is ideal for operations requiring fast turnaround times that won’t disrupt the production of their products.

whitePaper | July 12, 2021

The author wishes to thank Willie Wilson for his advice and support with stakeholder mapping throughout the project, Linh Tran Phuong Dang for helping with research and data collection, and many individuals and organizations that have shared their knowledge, including INTERPOL’s Pollution Crime Working Group; the environmental agencies of the United Kingdom, Zambia, Ghana and South Africa; the Environment and Natural Resources Division at the United States Department of Justice;

whitePaper | October 21, 2021

Cheshire is home to several rivers and waterways as well as lakes, pools and man-made watercourses. Sadly, we see each year that people have died after entering the water and getting into difficulty.

whitePaper | February 25, 2023

Monitoring emissions has been a major concern at industrial sites, including those in the chemical process industries (CPI), for the past few decades, but a number of factors are currently aligned that elevate the importance of proper monitoring, and amplify the consequences of failing to do so reliably and accurately.

whitePaper | December 21, 2022

Over the past two years, the world has been reeling from the shock of the pandemic, and we are now collectively trying to navigate to our “next normal.” Those of us on the Tech Trends team believe that this represents the opportunity to engineer a better future—not to just.