Keyword: Productivity

Markets & Companies

WEF’s Global Competitiveness Index 2018

28.11.2018 - Although global economic growth has been robust over the past two years, it remains fragile in the current changing economic and political context, according to the Global...

Breathing New Life into Spectroscopy

17.01.2017 - Gas-chromatography mass-spectrometry (GC-MS) instruments are useless without reference spectra databases. Without reliable reference spectra to search against, the identity of...

Research & Innovation

Route Planner for Research Chemists

29.01.2016 - Time is money; this holds particularly true for drug research and development. The global pharmaceutical industry spends about $100 billion a year on R&D. Researchers are...

Plant Construction & Process Technology

Tailoring Chemical Applications

02.09.2014 - Over the years, the meaning of the term ''process intensification'' has changed and today, there is still no precise and generally accepted definition. At least there is a general...

Markets & Companies

China’s rising salaries improve Europe’s competitiveness

08.05.2014 - Variety of Factors Influence Salaries - In the last 10 years, salaries in China have been rising at an average annual rate of about 14%. Though this rate has recently been somewhat...

Plant Construction & Process Technology

Fit For The Future

09.11.2011 -

Look To The Future - Decades of operation, modernisation and expansion have left many chemical plants with a somewhat haphazard automation mix of different controls...