Regulation | Speciality Chemicals Magazine

What does digitization mean for the chemicals industry?

22 May 2019 - 0

In partnership with consulting firm EY, we're conducting a survey of the state of digtalization in the chemicals industry and we need your help! It is confidential, based on mainly multiple choice questions and should only take 5 minutes to complete.

VECAP issues code of best practices

20 May 2019 - 0

The Brussels-based Voluntary Emission Control Action Programme (VECAP) used the occasion of the 15th anniversary of its foundation by launching a new code of best practices for flame retardants.

Envigo and Covance in asset swap

25 April 2019 - 0

Envigo’s Research Models Services business is to acquire the Research Products business of LabCorp’s Covance subsidiary, becoming a pure-play research models and services business. As part of the same transaction, Covance is also acquiring Envigo’s non-clinical research services business, expanding its services in that field.

ICCA calls for chemical ‘navigator’

9 April 2019 - 0

The International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA), meeting at Montevideo, Uruguay, has called for the creation of a global repository of publicly available information on chemicals, or ‘international navigator’.

ECHA lists substances for evaluation

27 March 2019 - 0

At its annual forum for exchange of information on enforcement in Helsinki on 19-22 March, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) adopted the updated Community rolling action plan (CoRAP) for substance evaluation.

ECHA publishes additives inventory

4 March 2019 - 0

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has published an inventory of all plastic additives used to date in the EU, describing it as “an important step towards better risk assessment of these substances under REACH and CLP”.

Ineos chairman blasts European regulation

18 February 2019 - 0

Sir Jim Ratcliffe, founder, chairman and 60% owner of Ineos, has written an open letter to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, lambasting European chemical regulation in general and ‘green taxes’ in particular.