Sep. 30, 2019News & Opinions
The Oqema Group is strengthening its service offering with a new laboratory for product development in Cologne. The state-of-the-art laboratory is focused on the existing surface technology business in Germany, whilst also developing the ...
May. 10, 2019Topics
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 available data at least have to be connected — a statement ...
The growing Asian markets have proven to be of utmost interest for the pharmaceutical industry. At the same time, logistics providers are facing diverse market conditions depending on the maturity of the market and its political system. ...
Over the last few years there has been a lot of talk about digitalization, also in chemical distribution. Particularly the developers and financial backers of dedicated online e-commerce platforms and marketplaces have promoted their ideas ...
May. 09, 2019Topics
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 as an optimization field only to a limited extent. The ...
May. 08, 2019Topics
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 Trading System (UTS) was established as a distributor of ...
May. 05, 2018Topics
The European Association of Chemical Distributors (FECC) picked the tagline “Shaping successful partnerships for the new market demands” as the theme for this year’s annual congress in Nice, France, June 4-6, 2018. ...
May. 03, 2018Topics
In many sectors of industry, logistics has become an economic key factor beyond pure cost. This is particularly true in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, and it is one of the reasons why the Achema 2018 has chosen logistics for ...
Apr. 30, 2018Topics
Everywhere in business today, customers, suppliers, employees, shareholders or owners, consultants and other pundits, and also the media seem to only have one topic. It is “digitalization” and the upheaval it will bring. These ...
Jan. 08, 2018Topics
The year just ended was marked by a flood of M&A activity also in the distribution sector. Leading the way, German giant Brenntag said it planned to acquire all shares of specialty chemicals distributor Wellstar Enterprises (Hong ...
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