Custom Ingredients

Charkit buys two in Carolina

22 July 2019 - 0
Charkit Chemical has acquired Custom Ingredients, a manufacturer of speciality ingredients including chemical concentrates, natural oils, polymers and extracts, and CA Specialities, a distributor of ingredients in the personal care market.
Digital in chemicals

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.
personal care

Three announce care centres

8 May 2019 - 0

Three major players in speciality chemicals have opened or announced plans for technology centres focused on consumer or personal care in the past month. Clariant and Brenntag will both have new ones located on the US East Coast, while Croda has opened two separate, focused locations in France and Singapore.

Libra

Libra plant ships first betaines

9 April 2019 - 0
Libra Speciality Chemicals has despatched the first shipments of its Librateric brand of 30% and 38% active cocamidopropyl betaines (CAPBs) from its new plant at Manchester, UK, it was announced during In-Cosmetics Global 2019 in Paris in April.
unilever

Fragrantly transparent

4 February 2019 - 0

Consumer products giant Unilever has announced that it fully delivered on the commitment it launched in early 2017, to disclose fragrance ingredient information down to 0.01% of the product formulation by the end of 2018, in place of generic ‘fragrance’ or ‘P

leaping bunny

Animal NGO criticises ECHA on testing

21 January 2019 - 0

NGO Cruelty Free International has launched a European-wide petition to stop the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) from “unlawfully flouting European cosmetics animal testing bans”.

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