SPEEDING UP THE PACE OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Competitive pressure within the chemical industry is driving a move toward specialized chemical products that differentiate the organization from competitors in the bulk chemicals arena. Bulk chemicals are commodities that produce significant revenues, but specialized chemicals particularly those protected with patents are higher margin products and thus highly desirable products that can add significant value the organization’s raw material. Specialized chemical products have a market lifecycle, similar to any other product. Profit margins can be mapped against time as the product rises in popularity and use, then falls out of favour when it is replaced by other solutions.

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Rohner AG

Ongoing Change is Vital to Progress. Rohner AG upholds this philosophy from its founding in 1906 to the present day, from the production of formic acid, to the development and global marketing of textile dyes, state-of-the-art performance chemicals, APIs and intermediates. As a leading custom manufacturing company located in Switzerland near Basel, we serve demanding customers in growth markets with a traditional Swiss commitment to quality - providing them with development and rapid scale-up of complex, multi-step synthetic processes.

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White Paper on the Low-carbon Development of the Petrochemical Industry

whitePaper | April 22, 2022

As the impacts of climate change increase, China announced the goal of "striving to peak CO2 emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060".

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Changing the nature of chemistry

whitePaper | January 30, 2020

Our first pilot plant uses the Dawn technology to convert non-food biomass like wood chips or agricultural waste into industrial sugars and lignin. These sugars are turned into chemical feedstocks to make plastics. Currently, we are building a second demonstration plant, which converts sugar into plant-based mono-ethylene glycol (MEG), which is used in the production of chemicals and plastics. A building block for the production of bioplastics in Chemical Cluster Emmen. It can be used to produce 100% bio-PET.

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Optimizing Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage to Meet Ambitious Sustainability Goals

whitePaper | October 5, 2022

The race to a zero carbon future is on. Global oil and gas, petrochemical and chemical companies alike have announced ambitious and broad carbon mitigation.

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Decarbonizing practices in the global food and beverage industry

whitePaper | December 24, 2022

This whitepaper examines the current state and trajectory of decarbonization within the global food and beverage industries. By examining and establishing a baseline on industry action, early-mid and long-term initiatives can be highlighted to help inform manufacturers and producers

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SAVING LIVES CHANGING LIVES PROTECTING LIVES

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.

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Coordination Compounds

whitePaper | May 15, 2022

In the previous Unit we learnt that the transition metals form a large number of complex compounds in which the metal atoms are bound to a number of anions or neutral molecules by sharing of electrons.

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Rohner AG

Ongoing Change is Vital to Progress. Rohner AG upholds this philosophy from its founding in 1906 to the present day, from the production of formic acid, to the development and global marketing of textile dyes, state-of-the-art performance chemicals, APIs and intermediates. As a leading custom manufacturing company located in Switzerland near Basel, we serve demanding customers in growth markets with a traditional Swiss commitment to quality - providing them with development and rapid scale-up of complex, multi-step synthetic processes.

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