Keyword: chemical industry

Strategy & Management

The Pharma CDMO Challenge

05.09.2019 - The pharmaceutical industry continues to grow and is estimated to be worth $1.5 trillion by 2021. One important driver is the trend towards outsourcing of development and manu...

News

BASF Hosts Climate Summit of the Chemical Industry

19.07.2019 - Representatives from 20 international chemical companies, including scientific experts and chief technology officers, attended a collaborative innovation workshop yesterday at BASF...

Logistics & Supply Chain

Rail Cargo: Back to the future

10.05.2019 - An intelligent enterprise is, as we know, data and process driven. The data feeds intelligence which in turn feeds process automation and innovation. This implies that the...

Logistics & Supply Chain

Sustainability versus Profitability

09.05.2019 - Companies across industries are torn between sustainability and profitability. But is this really a contradiction? Suppliers hold a key role when it comes to making supply chains...

Logistics & Supply Chain

Logistics performance is a driver of corporate performance!

09.05.2019 - For many years, the chemical industry was asleep regarding logistics. Although logistics costs played a significant role for many chem­ical companies, in many cases they were seen...

Logistics & Supply Chain

Logistics Trends and the Chemical Industry: Digitalize and Cooperate

08.05.2019 - There are ten megatrends which are different in type and kind that influence the logistics industry. Among those mega trends are globalization, demographic change, new lifestyles...

Logistics & Supply Chain

Chemical Distribution and Logistics in Eastern Europe

08.05.2019 - The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) consists of ten Eurasian countries formed following the break-up of the Soviet Union. Three years after its inception in 1991, United...

Strategy & Management

Asian Interest in European Chemical Companies

11.04.2019 - The chemical industry is one of the most international sectors with activity dominated by cross border transactions. Chinese and other Asian firms have been particularly busy...