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Hello and welcome to our latest edition of the Chemical Industry Journal.

There’s a good chance that if you’re reading the print edition of the magazine you’ll be attending CHEMUK 2019 – just like us.

Bringing together colleagues from across the chemical industry, CHEMUK 2019 showcases over 170 exhibitors, so you can learn more about the latest equipment and plant machinery, supply chain materials and services available.

In addition, you can hear from more than 70 expert speakers discussing some of the greatest challenges and opportunities faced by the industry. Find out how you can future-proof your business, drive operational performance, efficiency, safety, compliance and more.

Topics to be discussed include process safety and the regulatory landscape, sustainability and responsible care, process innovation, digitisation and new technology, supply chain management, global trade and Brexit uncertainty – to name but a few. Join one of the free to attend speaker events to learn more.

You’ll discover more about many of these topics in this issue too.

Publishing another edition without mentioning Brexit would have been nigh impossible, as it’s cast a shadow over the industry for so long now. Just before we go to print we hear a further extension has been agreed with a deadline of 31st October in an attempt to avoid a no-deal exit. The only certainty seems to be further uncertainty – for a few more months at least.

Turn the pages to read our interview with Dani Loughran in which she explains the likely consequences of a no-deal Brexit for her business and those in her supply chain. We also learn about the possible difficulties in setting up a UK version of REACH. Aside from Brexit, concern about the skills gap is a topic about which we hear regularly in the

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CIJ office, so we take a look at the reforms to apprenticeships that could help your business.

We also find out how degree apprenticeships could be the way forward to developing the next generation of skilled employees for the chemical industry.

Process safety leadership has a prominent role in this edition too. Julian Hought shares the secrets of successful leadership, Collaboration and knowledge sharing, developing competence and capability in the workplace, and building systems and processes that maintain standards – are all crucial.

Discover how galvanising sustainable improvements in safety can positively impact on productivity and profitability too.

How do you manage your brand? You might associate brand management with imposing a set of design guidelines on your colleagues, but we learn how a strikingly different approach is far more effective.

Jo Davies explains how at a time of uncertainty effective brand management is all the more important and how building a strong brand happens from within.

Delivering on your promises, providing products of consistently good quality, excellent customer support and tailored advice are what it’s really about. Read Jo’s article to find out more about the growing importance of brand and digital transformation.

At a time of uncertainty, it’s all the more important to celebrate our successes, so we take a look at the huge contribution of the chemical industry to the global economy and at the success story that is the UK fragrance industry.

Whilst Peter Newport, Chief Executive of the Chemical Business Association (CBA), provides us with an overview of the latest trends in the industry’s supply chain.

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New fuel cells Progress is being made in the field of fuel cells. In close cooperation with Joma-Polytec and MercedesBenz Fuel Cell, a subsidiary of Daimler AG, the engineering plastic Ultramid has successfully been used to manufacture a number of fuel cell system components. This innovative solution is being used as standard in the new Mercedes GLC F-CELL, which combines a fuel cell with a rechargeable lithium-ion battery.

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The face of Professor Yuri Oganessian, the only living person with an element named after him, has been shrunk to be smaller than a fibre of wool for a special gift created to mark his visit to the University of Nottingham.

In honour of his visit on the 13th March the team in the Nano and Microscale Research Centre have achieved a new record for the smallest periodic table alongside a miniaturised portrait of Oganessian and the creator of the periodic table Dmitri Mendeleev.

Professor Yuri Oganessian is the only living person to have an element in the Periodic Table named after him and gave a special lecture at the University as part of their celebrations to mark the 150th anniversary of the Periodic Table.

Mapping use Innovative new datasets, estimating the amount of pesticides and fertilisers used in each 1km square in England annually, have been produced by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.

The data will provide researchers, water companies and policy-makers with more information on the likely extent of pesticide and fertiliser use across landscapes so they can work with the agricultural industry to develop more sustainable farming methods, including greater efficiency in agrochemical application.

John Redhead, Spatial Ecologist at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, said: “These sophisticated datasets are based on comprehensive modelling. They are the first of their kind to provide estimated usage rates of about 130 different pesticides and the main types of manufactured fertiliser at such a detailed resolution – 1km by 1km squares – on a national scale.”

AstraZeneca has entered into a global development and commercialisation collaboration agreement with Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited for trastuzumab deruxtecan, a proprietary antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) and potential new targeted medicine for cancer treatment.

The collaboration is aligned with AstraZeneca’s science-led strategy in Oncology, which is based on four key scientific platforms: tumour drivers & resistance, DNA damage response, ImmunoOncology and ADCs.

Chemicals induce dipoles The light scattered by plasmonic nanoparticles is useful, but some of it gets lost at the surface and scientists are now starting to figure out why.

Transforming power of Gold In the heat of a furnace, boron atoms happily dive into a bath of gold and when things get cool, they resurface as coveted borophene.

The discovery by scientists from Rice University, Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University is a step toward practical applications like wearable or transparent electronics, plasmonic sensors or energy storage for the two-dimensional material with excellent conductivity.

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In novel experiments at Rice University and the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, along with theoretical work at Princeton University, researchers found that molecules placed on the surface of a single gold nanorod affect its plasmonic response by altering the electronic structure of the particle itself.

The finding could enhance applications like catalysis that involve plasmon-driven chemistry.

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Metaldehyde removed Kingfisher, the international home improvement company and owner of B&Q, has announced it will stop selling products that contain metaldehyde across its 1,200 stores, replacing them with environmentally-friendly alternatives.

Imagine Chemistry challenge There has been another tremendous response to the Imagine Chemistry collaborative innovation challenge of Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals). More than 160 innovative ideas from 30 countries were submitted by startups, scale-ups, university spin-outs, and other potential partners for the 2019 edition.

Imagine Chemistry, now in its third year, was launched to tackle chemistryrelated challenges and uncover new ways to create value for customers. The company will now select up to 20 finalists to attend an intensive three-day event in May at its RD&I centre at Deventer, the Netherlands, where they will work with Nouryon experts and business leaders to further develop their ideas into a joint value case.

“We have been overwhelmed by the number and quality of the submissions,” said Peter Nieuwenhuizen, Chief Technology Officer at Nouryon. “We have also been impressed by the geographical breadth of submissions, which include 28 entries from China, 25 from the US, 18 from the UK, among others.”

How liquid drops combine A team of researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh and Warwick have run molecular simulations on a supercomputer to analyse interactions between tiny ripples that form on the surface of droplets.

Light provides control Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a novel 3D printer that uses patterns of visible and ultraviolet light to dictate which of two monomers are polymerized to form a solid material.

Different patterns of light provide the spatial control necessary to yield multi-material parts. The work was published Feb. 15 in the journal Nature Communications.

Researchers found that these tiny waves cross the gap between nearby droplets and make the first contact between them. Once the droplets have touched, liquid molecules draw the two surfaces together like the zip on a jacket, the team says. This leads to the complete merger of the droplets.

Insights into how droplets merge could help make 3D printing technologies more accurate and may help improve the forecasting of thunderstorms and other weather events, the study suggests.

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The move follows three years of collaboration and product development with suppliers, and comes after the UK government announced in December that it will ban outdoor use of the chemical from 2020.

Acquisition news C2 PHARMA s.a.r.l., a Luxembourgbased phytochemical and chemical pharmaceutical manufacturing and distribution group, has acquired the Digoxin API product portfolio of Polish company, Nobilus Ent, selfdeveloped and inherited from Roche/Galenus Mannheim.

Through the agreement, C2 PHARMA is the product owner, and Nobilus is a manufacturing partner and releasing entity for the API. Parallel manufacturing to ensure redundancy is supported by long-term partner, Laurus Labs, an India-based API manufacturer with an impeccable track record.

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Peter Newport Chief Executive of the Chemical Business Association (CBA) CBA is a not-for-profit business organisation representing the independent chemical supply chain in the UK. Its member companies distribute, pack, and blend over four million tonnes of chemicals each year with a market value of almost three billion euros.

Peter is a key industry advocate to governmental and regulatory authorities in the UK and Europe.

He is also a board member and current Treasurer of the European Association for Chemical Distributors (Fecc) and a board member of the International Chemical Trade Association (ICTA).

Jo Davies Managing Director of leading brand implementation and strategy specialist VIM Group Jo Davies helps some of the world’s biggest brands save millions through better structure, control and efficiency of their brand organisation. Over the last 25 years, VIM Group has saved its clients more than £100m.

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Dr Julian Hought Managing Director, HFL Consulting

Dr Dani Loughran Managing Director of Aston Chemicals Ltd

Julian is a chartered engineer with over 25 years’ experience in the chemical industry, covering design, construction, operation and maintenance of hazardous processing facilities. At HFL Consulting, he leads a group of consultants and consulting engineers, helping businesses to bring about long-term improvements in operational and process safety performance

Dani has a degree in Biochemistry and a PhD in Molecular Genetics from the University of Oxford. Aston Chemicals is based in the UK and Poland, and works with exclusive suppliers to distribute their speciality chemicals to the European Personal Care industries. Dani has been vocal in her concern that Brexit threatens UK industry and prosperity, and hence the public services that depend on tax revenues, and ultimately the livelihoods, security and opportunities for people in the UK.

Mark Kenrick Chief Executive, px group & Chairman of the North East Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC)

Philip Aldridge Chief Executive, North East Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC)

Mark is Chief Executive Officer of Teessidebased, px group and in April 2018 appointed Chairman of NEPIC. Prior to stepping up to this role in 2017, Mark was the group’s Director of Safety, Health, Environment (SHE) and Risk Management and brought with him over 35 years’ experience in the chemicals and processing industries.

Before being appointed Chief Executive in April 2018, Philip worked for NEPIC for 6 years helping deliver ERDF projects and serving its pharmaceutical members. Prior to his time with the Cluster, Philip held roles at the Centre of Excellence in Life Sciences and technical management positions within GSK in the UK and US.

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Dr Carol Treasure Co-Founder and CEO, XCellR8

Carolyn Nicholls Operations Director at RAS Limited

Carol leads the team at award-winning lab XCellR8.

The company offers in vitro safety testing services to chemical ingredient manufacturers, which are 100% animal-free. XCellR8 has received regulatory recognition for its innovative animal-product-free adaptations of existing safety tests such as those for skin sensitisation, and Carol is passionate about developing new testing methodologies that are both scientifically and ethically sound.

Carolyn leads a team of risk and hazard management consultants and has been instrumental in creating the company’s assessment methodologies.

Carolyn has experience of working with a large number of UK COMAH sites to develop safety reports and provide support in all aspects of risk management.

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$5.7 trillion contribution Chemical industry plays crucial role in regional economies in every corner of the world The international chemical industry touches nearly every goods-producing sector worldwide, making an estimated $5.7 trillion contribution to global economic output, or 7% of world GDP, through direct, indirect and induced impacts, and supports 120 million jobs worldwide, according to a new global industry economic impact analysis by Oxford Economics.

The findings, produced with the International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA), were unveiled to coincide with the Fourth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-4).

Key results of the report, The Global Chemical Industry: Catalyzing Growth and Addressing Our World’s Sustainability Challenges, were: Directly, the chemical industry added $1.1 trillion to world GDP and employed 15 million people, making it the fifth-largest global manufacturing sector.

For every $1 (USD) generated by the chemical industry, a further $4.20 is generated elsewhere in the global economy.

Companies in the chemical industry spent an estimated $3 trillion with their suppliers in 2017, buying goods and services used in the manufacture of their products. This supply chain spending contributed an estimated $2.6 trillion to global GDP, and supported 60 million jobs.

The global chemical industry invested an estimated $51 billion in research and development (R&D), supporting 1.7 million jobs and a further $92 billion in economic activity.

The largest contributor to GDP and jobs from the sector is the Asia-Pacific chemical industry, generating 45 per cent of the industry’s total annual economic value, and 69 percent of all jobs supported.

Europe made the next most important contribution ($1.3 trillion total GDP contribution, 19 million jobs supported) followed by North America ($866 billion total GDP contribution, 6 million jobs supported).

ICCA commissioned Oxford Economics to provide a detailed assessment of the chemical industry’s contributions to the global economy.

The report aims to examine the full extent of the chemical industry’s economic footprint - whereby production of chemical products supports activity not just in the industry itself (direct impact), but in a wide range of other sectors throughout the supply chain (indirect impact supported through procurement of intermediate goods) and wagefinanced effects (payroll-induced impact sustained via consumption spending of workers employed by the industry and its suppliers).

To learn more and to download a free copy of this report, visit www.icca-chem.org/EconomicAnalysis To learn more about ICCA’s contributions to the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), visit www.icca-chem.org/SDGs

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Big Names, Big Themes… and lots more Taking place on Wednesday May 1st & Thursday May 2nd, the CHEMUK 2019 EXPO will see attendees from all sides of the UK’s chemicals industries converging for its ‘inaugural’, free to attend, event hosted at the Yorkshire Event Centre (YEC) in Harrogate (Leeds City Region).

CHEMUK 2019 will provide visitor groups with a diverse and impressive showcase of 170+ specialist exhibitors showcasing latest plant, equipment, supply chain materials & services supporting the chemicals industries, driving operational performance, efficiency, future-proofing, safety, compliance and more.

Key exhibition focus streams, featuring latest industry solutions, technology, innovations, partners and specialist services include:

Plant, Process, Flow & Control

Covering: Process Plant & Equipment / Process Engineering / Process Control / Process Automation/ Flow Management / Plant & Asset Mgmt / Plant Optimisation / Process Intensification/ Digitalisation & QC

Chemicals, Ingredients, Raw Materials

Covering: Industrial & Supply Chain Chemicals / Chemical & Formulation ingredients & additives / Raw Materials – for Chemicals processing & product formulation sectors/ Green Chemistry

Heath, Safety, Environment, Regulatory

Covering: HSE/ Process Safety / Hazard Management / Environment Compliance & Regulatory Management / Responsible Care/Risk & Asset Mgmt / Security

Logistics, Storage, Handling & Fulfilment

Covering: Logistics & Transport / Supply Chain Mgmt / Warehousing & Storage / Loading & Handling / Industrial Packaging /Contract Processing& Fulfilment Services

Laboratory, Research & Development

Covering: Laboratory chemicals / Lab Equipment, Apparatus & Instrumentation / Lab Testing/ Research & Development Services, Sector Innovation

Business & Operations Management

Covering: Engineering & Technical Services / Business Support Services / Trade & Business Performance / Operational & Asset Mgmt / Brexit & Regulatory Mgmt

Skills, Training, HR & Recruitment

Covering Chemical /Process sector Careers, Skills, Training & recruitment

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FREE to attend speaker programme presenting 70+ expert speakers from across industry

The 2019 programme boasts headline contributions from the likes of Siemens, BASF, Brenntag, AstraZeneca, AkzoNobel, Accenture, BioVale, Cogent, IChemE Safety Centre, The Manufacturing Technology Centre and many more top names across the industry.

Scheduled feature sessions & headline presentations from leading bodies already including Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), British Adhesives & Sealants Assoc (BASA), Department for International Trade (DIT) , UK Lubricants Association (UKLA), BADGP, BioVale , Cogent Skills, BCMPA and others add to a packed 2 days of high value intelligence, best practice and innovation ‘takeaways, guiding crucial next steps for attendee groups from across the chemical industries.

KEY PROGRAMME TRACKS: Process Improvement, Process Plant & Control / Process Management Industry 4.0 Digitalisation / Disruptive Technologies Logistics & Supply Chain /Transportation / Storage / Handling Health, Safety, Environment & Regulatory / Compliance Skills, Training & Professional Development Formulation Sector Perspectives Chemicals Business / Sector landscape Contract Processing Chemical R&D / Laboratory / Analysis / Test Green Chemistry / Industrial BioTech / Sustainability

Sectors in focus: Feature ‘sector-specific’ content will address the needs of key end-user/formulation industries and corresponding challenges for the chemicals industries - including sectors such as Cosmetics, Personal Care Products, HI&I Cleaning & Biocidal Products, Adhesives & Sealants, Polymers & Resins, Lubricants, Pharma & Healthcare, Paints, Inks & Coatings, Construction and others.

Exciting growth markets for the UK chemicals sector such as Additive Manufacturing (AM) materials, and future Battery

chemicals will also come under the spotlight at CHEMUK. Dr. Edward Cant, from the Manufacturing Technology Centre talks on how the chemical sector can support AM growth & development. Similarly, Dave OudeNijeweme, Head of technology trends at Advanced Propulsion Centre will discuss the scale of the opportunity for the chemical supply chain in supporting the future high growth automotive battery materials marketplace.

‘Connected Manufacturing’, ‘Green Chemistry’ plus ‘BREXIT & Changing Regulatory landscape’ Attendees to CHEMUK 2019 can tap into topical debate and intelligence around THREE priority topics – including Connected Manufacturing and requirement for adaptation to Industry 4.0/digital-focused business and operational models. Secondly Green Chemistry and the overwhelming pressures towards more ‘circular economy’ bio-based consumer and industrial products. Thirdly, the challenge of navigating Brexit unpredictability and possible regulator landscape change.

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The danger of static electricity in hazardous atmospheres is always present. Industries such as pharmaceuticals, food and beverage, chemicals and paints and coatings, where powders and solvents are used in key processes, are at risk due to the hazardous nature of the materials and the generation static throughout the processing operation.

Newson Gale’s range of certified Earth-Rite, Bond-Rite and Cen-Stat static ground indicating systems offer the appropriate level of protection required to eliminate the accumulation of static electricity.

Keep your people, plant and processes safe by grounding applications that use drums, IBC’s, road tankers, railcars, and plant apparatus.

Don’t Risk it – Ground it! Visit us on Stand J21 at ChemUK. To contact us, call +44 115 940 7500 or visit www.newson-gale.co.uk

Dura-ID Solutions are a specialist label manufacturer with over 20 years’ experience in the chemical industry. From brands such as Neuralabel, OKI, Toshiba and Zebra, we have a full colour or thermal transfer solution that will improve your in-house labelling process.

Our chemical labelling experts are always on hand to provide you with advice on GHS, CLP and REACH legislation. As manufacturers we also have access to a number of exclusive materials and printers that resellers simply do not and because of this we are the leading labelling industry experts. Get in touch to talk about your labelling requirements today. www.dura-id.com

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RAS Ltd is an independent firm of risk experts specialising in major accident hazards. RAS work with a number of the leading companies in the oil and gas and specialist chemical sectors to help them manage their safety, environment and business risks.

Perry Process Equipment Ltd supplies high quality used process plant and equipment to the chemical, pharmaceutical, food and beverage industries. With equipment immediately available from stock and competitively priced, we are one of the leading dealers of used machinery worldwide.

Established in the UK in 1990, we go beyond just buying and selling used equipment. We have a team of experienced and knowledgeable staff to assist with equipment sourcing, mechanical refurbishment, international payment options, export packing and logistics, equipment disposal, and support with the dismantling and removal of plants, lines and equipment.

Browse our entire inventory of process equipment online at www.perryprocess.co.uk

RAS has specialists from a variety of backgrounds, enabling us to develop bespoke solutions to any risk problem. Our services span the breadth of risk management, from helping our clients to understand their risks through hazard identification and risk assessment, to helping them prevent, control and mitigate these risks according to the principles of ALARP and emergency response planning. www.ras.ltd.uk

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At CHEMUK 2019 Stand F10, HRS Heat Exchangers will showcase its SI Series of multitube heat exchangers, which includes a double tubeplate to aid leak detection and prevent cross-contamination between the service fluid and product.

Pulsar Process Measurement is a world leader in non-contacting level measurement with tens of thousands of installations worldwide.

The success of the business has been built on reliable repeatable measurement systems that have made difficult or seemingly impossible measurements a reality.

Whether you are processing fine chemicals or treating complex waste streams, every part of the process needs to be reliable, and heat exchangers are no exception. From heating process materials to evaporation during waste treatment processes, HRS Heat Exchangers uses only the toughest materials – stainless steel, Teflon and PEEK – and the most robust designs.

RADAR and non-contacting ultrasonic measurement are complementary non-contacting technologies, measuring level by signal analysis but excelling in different situations. A major benefit to Pulsar customers is that they can choose between mmWAVE RADAR and dB ultrasonic measurement, without having to make any compromises in terms of functionality. Pulsar also offers customers a range of online and technical support, for more information visit our website: www.pulsar-pm.com

Also on display at the event will be HRS’ patented Unicus Series of scraped-surface heat exchangers. Able to deal with the most fouling substrates, they are gentle enough to maintain the quality of complex materials. Visitors to HRS’ stand can find out how this technology is being used in the company’s Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) waste management solution. www.hrs-heatexchangers.com

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OMEX Environmental Ltd are based in the UK and operate worldwide, providing biological and nutrient additives for the energy, water and transport sectors. Products include bioavailable liquid trace element solutions, enzymes, micronutrient blends to boost the availability of essential trace elements and a range of iron powders all used in the anaerobic process to help improve bacterial performance in the digestate and increase the methane content of biogas production. The OMEX support service includes a nutrient profiling service in their fully-equipped laboratory with analysis of plant influent, effluent and biomass, through which a nutrient solution will be recommended. OMEX Environmental Ltd also manufacture and supply a complete range of wastewater treatment solutions for anaerobic and aerobic systems as well as de-icers and concrete ad-mixtures.

Hosokawa Micron Ltd is at the forefront of processing innovation.

Our extensive heritage in process technology makes us a renowned single source supply of particle and powder processing equipment, technologies, and services. As a member of the global Hosokawa Micron Group, we bring together the very best in powder processing technologies and advancement, technical processing expertise, and standard and bespoke equipment design, manufacture, and installation. Our market leading products and expertise is complemented by superior customer service, which brings everything together to give customers a competitive edge in their markets.

www.omex.com | environmental@omex.com | +44 (0)1553 770092

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Hempel Metals are service orientated stockists and processors of Nickel Alloys, Stainless Steels and Titanium. With globally located stock tailored to the Chemical Processing, Oil and Gas and Aerospace industries. Through our network of service centres we manage the technical requirements of our customers. Hempel Firmus Metals are the contact for requirements in Sheet, Plate, Coil and Round Bar – Hempel Metals stand for quality, ingenuity and adaptability with a customer lead approach to special metals supply - We are always ready to assist in your next project!

Telephone: 0044 (0)1924 488585 Email: ben.wood@hempel-metals.com Web: www.hempel-metals.com

RETSCH is a member of the Verder Scientific group and is the leading solution provider for neutral-to-analysis sample preparation and characterization of solids. Based on a century of experience RETSCH develops size reduction and sieving equipment which is characterized by excellent performance, operating convenience, safety and a longevity.

Retsch Technology develops state-of-the-art optical measuring systems for particle size & shape analysis. These analysers operate on the basis of different measurement technologies, permit the particle characterization of suspensions, emulsions, colloidal systems, powders, granules and bulk materials in a size range from 0.3nm to 30mm. www.retsch.com

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Maelstrom is a leading supplier of high-performance fluid mixing, blending and dosing equipment for inline process intensification.

Based in the UK’s North West region, we have been supplying advanced mixing solutions to a number of the world’s largest process companies for over 20 years. From simple, standalone laboratory mixers through to complex, integrated production system installations, Maelstrom offers proven performance using its patented technologies.

Chemical Search International specialises exclusively in executive search, talent acquisition and professional career development services for the global chemicals and related sectors such as polymers, materials, natural resources and biosciences. We also own ChemExecSM | Executive Network, an exclusive online professional network dedicated to these same industries and which offers faster, simpler professional networking just when you need it. We have offices in London, New York and Singapore. Please contact us to discuss your company’s recruitment needs or to discuss your own personal career.

At ChemUK 2019, Maelstrom will be showing a selection of its latest dispersion and emulsification equipment, together with an example system skid used for nanomaterial processing. Visit stand K10 to find out how Maelstrom can transform your mixing process.

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See us at stand B4

Busch Vacuum Pumps and Systems are one of the largest suppliers of vacuum solutions for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.

With thousands of vacuum systems in operation worldwide, Busch offers its customers a wide range of vacuum technologies for each application – from single vacuum pumps to full-scale systems.

Zulu Joint Integrity Ltd is a specialist joint integrity management and training company with a strong track record of providing solutions to UK COMAH chemical assets. Support solutions including; • Design & execution of Joint Integrity procedures that comply with regulatory compliance, industry guidelines and best practice • Joint integrity training and competency assessment including BS EN 1591-4:2013, Energy Institute Guidelines, ASME PCC-1:2013 (APPENDIX A) and as of 2019, ECITB approved MJI10 training for those responsible for breaking containment and making bolted flanged joints Zulu’s services help obtain a safe, leak free start-up of plant, thus improving safety, quality and environmental standards. www.zulujointintegrity.co.uk

Busch offers solutions for all vacuum applications in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, such as: Evaporation, Filtration, Crystallization, Absorption, Sublimation and Mixing. Busch (UK) Ltd also provides customers with advice and support, from selecting the pump, through to our 24/7 nationwide aftersales service.

For more information visit www.busch.co.uk.

See us at 4 stand B2

See us at stand K5

BASA is one of the most active technical adhesives and sealants associations in Europe, providing high value and contributing to business performance for its members.

With membership increasing each year, we provide a mine of information and advice on the importance of regulations and standards for the adhesives and sealants industry in the UK and Ireland. This is underpinned by an extremely active technical and business programme and every year more than 600 staff from member companies participate in BASA activities and more than half the membership are involved with our working parties.

Visit Stand K5 to talk about membership www.basa.uk.com

About WES With over 25 years of experience, WES has established itself as the leading company specialising in the design, engineering and supply of chemical dosing systems and ancillary products and services. The range of services WES offers varies from a simple component through to the complete design, build and installation of bulk chemical dosing systems, including a wide range of readily available hire systems. The company’s innovative and flexible approach enables them to be highly responsive and reactive to their nationwide customer requirements.

For further information, contact: WES Ltd., Precision House, Rankine Road, Basingstoke, RG24 8PP. Email info@wes.ltd.uk Web: www.wes.ltd.uk

See us at 0 stand K2

See us at stand M5

SEEPEX will showcase their new EHEDG-certified BCFH Pump Range at CHEMUK 2019. EHEDG certification ensures residue-free cleaning at a lower temperature, with lower chemical concentration and shorter cleaning time than other cleaning-in-place solutions.

Visitors to SEEPEX’s stand can also learn about the company’s Smart Dosing Pump (SDP). With an integrated control system delivering low pulsation flow and metering accuracy of ±1%, the SDP can be easily integrated into continuous or batch dosing systems.

“SEEPEX progressive cavity pumps and control systems are used in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries wherever low to highly viscous, aggressive or abrasive media must be conveyed accurately,” explains Peter McGarian, Managing Director. “We look forward to welcoming visitors to stand M5 and helping to solve their pumping challenges.” sales.uk@seepex.com | www.seepex.com

Francis Ward, based in Bradford West Yorkshire, design and manufacture rotationally moulded Drums and IBC,s, complimented with our range of metallic pressure discharge containers. Francis Wards products are reusable for up to 10 years depending on product type and chemical compatibility.

The safe storage and transportation of chemicals in the industrial sector is an area in which Francis Ward has extensive experience.

Francis Wards containers are performance tested and certified in accordance with UN regulations.

Francis Ward is part of the Rotational Moulding Group Limited, one of the leading companies in the field of Rotational Moulding in the UK. www.francisward.com

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See us at 5 stand E1

See us at stand H2

The company was founded by George Adams in 1942, who recognised a supply shortage in the local machine tool industry. In 1999 the Company became as Adams LubeTech Limited and also moved to its present site in the same year.

Crest Pumps Ltd was founded in 1973 as a specialist UK manufacturer of Chemical Resistant Pumps. Our experience means we work with you to offer the best pump for the application ensuring years of trouble-free service, whilst operating with the lowest possible life cycle cost. As a UK manufacturer, we can supply you with any pump built to your exact specification without delay or unnecessary cost.

Today, Adams LubeTech has an unrivalled reputation as a manufacturer of single point ‘Oilers and Lubricators’, exporting to countries worldwide alongside expertise advice and comprehensive range of ‘Centralized Systems’ for all industrial applications.

Please visit us on Stand E15 to discover our new self-priming pumps for greater versatility, PFA-Lined pumps for true heavy duty, and Variable Frequency canned motor pumps for the very best in energy efficiency.

The Company is registered to quality management system BS EN ISO 9001. www.adamslube.com

www.crestpumps.co.uk

See us at stand D3

See us at stand L5

VEGA are delivering safety, value and reliability to the chemical industry through innovative, high quality level and pressure sensors. They manufacture a range of technologies for level, pressure, interface, density and other specialist control applications. Their products are certified, tested and approved to meet safety and hazardous area standards for the demanding environments that prevail in chemical manufacturing.

Backed by a legacy of experience and customer partnership, their products are proven in achieving both successful outcomes and process improvements. VEGA understand that a modular, easy to use design with a 5-day build time, 3 year warranty and optimum customer support, are the values most highly sought by end-users.

For more than six decades, NETZSCH has developed, manufactured and marketed positive displacement pumps all over the world.

Designed specifically for difficult pumping duties, NETZSCH pumps range in size from the smallest metering pumps in food production and pharmaceuticals to high volume pumps for applications in the oil, gas and mining industries, and everything in between.

We’ve been supplying worldwide NEMO® progressing cavity pumps, TORNADO® rotary lobe pumps, NOTOS multi screw pumps, macerators/grinders and dosing technology for custom built and challenging solutions in a wide range of applications. www.netzsch.com/en

www.vega.com

See us at stand K3

See us at stand

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Particle Counting in Liquids • Water, Chemicals & Corrosive Acids • 0.03µm to 150µm depending on model • High Detection Efficiency • In-Line or Batch Sampling • High maximum concentration limits • Simple to use • LCD Touch Panel Displays • PC data collection software available

Fully confidential outsourcing of your whole supply chain. From storage, packing, blending, QC testing, transportation to Samples Management: All provided by the 2M Services Company, all confidential. We provide customers with flexible solutions to their outsourcing needs. Outsource your entire supply chain to 2M Services and obtain more business with greater ease.

2M Services brings together SampleRite UK, SampleRite China and MP Storage and Blending together under the 2M Services umbrella.

2M Services Company understands that confidentiality of our clients is critical and enter into confidentiality agreements when negotiations with a prospective client begin.

PMT (GB) Ltd. | Tel: +44 (0)1684 312950 | Fax:+44 (0)1684 312969 | email: info@pmtgb.com

www.samplerite.com/2m-services

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ChemiGuardÂŽ A new standard for safer tanker offloading Our innovative range of ChemiGuard pressurised tanker offload cabinets have been updated.

Our new design allows easier access to the connection point whilst maintaining all the other important safety features.

Come visit us on stand K30 at CHEMUK2019 exhibition Chem Resist Group Ltd

1st & 2nd May 2019

For more information call us today on 01924 499466

Harrogate Exhibition Centre

www.chemresist.com

Free to attend

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WHITE OKI PRO1050 Label Printer See a demonstration on the AM LABELS stand at CHEMUK

STAND G4 Applying white toner under CMYK or alone, you can produce exceptional labels on light, clear and metallic media

www.amlabels.co.uk/oki | sales@amlabels.co.uk | 01536 414 222

Delivering chemistry for a better life Ingredients trend leader > Personal Care & Cosmetics > Home, Industrial & Institutional Care > Pharmaceuticals & Nutraceuticals

www.surfachem.com | info@surfachem.com A 2M Holdings Ltd Company

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See us at stand L1

See us at 5 stand B2

Hach® is a global leader in the field of water analysis. The company boasts an extensive portfolio of laboratory and online measurement tools as well as reagents used in the analysis of waste water and process water.

Lutz-Jesco is a leading German manufacturer of drum pumps, dosing pumps/systems, chlorine dioxide & electro-chlorination systems and process controllers for use within the process, F&B, Pharma, water, wastewater & leisure industries.

Drum pumps for safely transferring fluids are available from stock in PP, PVDF, Hastalloy C, Aluminium, 316SS, 316SS Sanitary with a variety of motors, ie/ 110v, 230v, air, ATEX and newly released the B1/B2 Battery versions with rechargeable batteries and chargers for total portability.

Chemical dosing pumps & Disinfection systems with multiple types of control options are available for client led specifications in today’s demanding applications including remote connectivity. www.lutz-jesco.com/en | www.lutz-pumpen.de/en

Hach manufactures and supplies analytical instruments and reagents used to test the quality of water and other aqueous solutions. Our systems are designed to simplify analysis and offer: • Complete, easy-to-follow methods • High-quality prepared reagents • Accurate portable, laboratory and on-line instrumentation https://uk.hach.com

See us at 3 stand F1

See us at 0 stand E2 Independent Pump Specialists AVTPUMP are an independent specialist in the total support and supply of pumps to all industry sectors.

Working to increase the uptime of your pump assets and reduce your costs.

Here to ensure your pumps perform.

• Supply • Parts • Commissioning • Servicing • Upgrades • • Support • Repair • Maintenance •

ZOOK and Flexachem – Proud Partners in Pressure Relief and Control Safety can’t be left to chance, so meet today’s demanding pressure control challenges with the latest technology.

Flexachem have been supplying pressure relief and process valve solutions for over 30 years, let us use this knowledge to help you pick the right solution for your application.

ZOOK manufacture a complete range of innovative metal and graphite rupture disks and associated products. Manufactured at our own factories these can reduce plant down time and increase operational efficiency.

Join us at stand F13 to find out how we can assist. www.zookdisk.com

CHALLENGE US ON STAND E20 With a fully interactive stand, demonstrations, display pumps, technical advice, products launching, competitions and giveaways, the AVTSTAND has it all.

Don’t miss your chance to challenge our technical team to provide helpful advice and tips to resolve your pump problems and process improvement needs. www.avtpump.com / 03303 322101

See us at 6 stand E1

See us at 5 stand K2

MHT Technology Ltd

MHT Technology Ltd is a leading supplier of cost-effective tank gauging, terminal automation and stock management systems to the chemical, petro-chemical, oil and gas industries.

The company provides scalable, engineered solutions which have been successfully implemented on sites of various sizes across the world.

MHT Technology is pleased to be launching a new solution to the UK market at CHEMUK2019 which utilises the latest mobile technology to improve operational safety, quality and efficiency by digitising paperbased operational procedures.

MHT welcomes visitors to stand K25 to see the solution for themselves and understand how it could help keep their operations safe. mht-technology.co.uk

Ashcroft Instruments are leading manufacturers of high quality pressure and temperature measurement instrumentation. Our motto is to protect our customers’ people, processes and profits so high quality and high safety is our standard.

We’re familiar with your challenges, especially with managing aggressive and abrasive media. With a variety of wetted materials available, our instruments can be configured with compatible wetted parts or fitted with diaphragm seals to resist corrosive processes. You can be assured that you’ll be installing a trustworthy component into your system.

Contact us find out what we can do for you. email: sales@ashcroftuk.com call: 01223 395500

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Enabling full compliance.

ExESS

CHEMSPECTOR

GHS Classification Calculator

See us at 0 stand B2

PUBLICHEM

Automated SDS Distribution

Automated Regulatory Content

Version and Documents Management

Industry Phrases in 50+ Languages

Chemical Inventory & Reporting

We are the UK’s professional body for chemical scientists and bring together chemists from across the world. We provide our members with personalised support that spans their careers through our products and services.

Our members benefit from: • professional recognition of their experience and expertise; • support tailored to their career stage; and • connections with our diverse international community.

We help organisations to recruit and retain talented chemical scientists and to provide their employees with a fully supported route to professional recognition through our internationally recognised career development framework.

For details contact membership@rsc.org or visit rsc.li/join

Founded in 1999, Lisam Systems is a global provider of Environmental, Health and Safety (EH&S) compliance management software solutions and services, operating from offices worldwide. By combining an easy-to-use, flexible technology built on the Microsoft .NET platform, with the latest regulatory content, Lisam brings innovative, affordable and timely solutions to solve EH&S challenges faced by manufacturers, distributors and users of chemical products. Today, more than 1000 clients in these industries rely on Lisam’s flagship software, ExESS®, to manage their compliant safety data sheets and labels, designed for all major commercial markets and available in more than 50 languages. www.lisam.com

See us at 0 stand B1

See us at stand M4

Edwards are a world leader in the design, technology and manufacture of (dry) vacuum pumps for process applications, tailoring solutions to our customers’ needs.

For 100 years Edwards has been at the forefront of vacuum pump technology, making manufacturing cleaner, smarter, economical and environmentally friendly. Edwards’ chemical and industrial vacuum pumps are integral to manufacturing processes for an increasingly diverse range of industries.

Their pioneering dry vacuum technology provides real cost benefits and environmentally friendly operations. Edwards’ combination of chemical applications expertise, product portfolio, engineering strength and global service presence puts them in a unique position to work with you to design the best solution for your chemical process. www.edwardsvacuum.com

UK Flowtechnik is an established distributor of specialist pumps, magnetic couplings, flowmeters and instrumentation designed to work with a variety of industries including the chemical, process and composite. It offers pumping and metering solutions for a wide range of viscosity, pressure and accuracy requirements. Fitted to OEM machines or for use in production, its range of products are well established and specified widely in many diverse challenging applications.

Our technical knowledge at a product and application level around pumping and metering viscous products is renowned within the industry.

Come and find our range of flow meters, pumps, couplings and process measurement equipment on stand B10. www.ukflowtechnik.com

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Headline speakers include: STEVE ELLIOTT

DR. PAUL FERGUSON

DR. STEVEN RAW FRSC CCHEM

Chief Executive Chemical Industries Association Chemical Industries Association keynote

FRSC CCHEM

Associate Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca Separation Science RSC-hosted ‘Skills Development / CPD’ guest contributor

Team Manager, AstraZeneca Pharmaceutical Technology and Development RSC-hosted ‘Skills Development/ CPD’ guest contributor

RICHARD WARD

DR. GEOFF MACKEY

NEIL SMITH

Commercial Vice President, Brenntag UK & Ireland “Sustainability and Responsible Care in the chemical distribution industry”

Corporate Affairs & Sustainability Director - BASF plc “Sustain-a-whatability?”

Head of Workforce Development, Cogent Skills “Managing your Competent Workforce – the Proof and the Truth”

DR. SARAH HICKINGBOTTOM

DR. DARREN BUDD

DR. THOMAS FARMER

Commercial Director - BASF plc “Leading the Digital Transformation in Chemicals”

Leader of the Clean Synthesis Technology Platform in the University of York’s (GCCE) “Guest panellist - Green chemistry at commercial scale: is the future now? Panel session”

DAVID WRIGHT

ROB MUNRO

PETER DAVIDSON

Director General, UKLA - UK Lubricants Association “The future of chemical regulation in the UK”

Associate Industrial Fellow - The Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge “Technology Strategy Toolkit: The R&D Managers’ Secret Weapon”

Executive Director - Tank Storage Association “Good Safety Leadership”

DR. ZSUZSANNA GYENES

INGO LEGERMANN

DR MOJGAN MODDARESI

Deputy to the Director - IChemE Safety Centre “Understanding competency via procurement”

HSE Manager, Brenntag EMEA “Importance of Safety in the chemical distribution industry”

Director - Personal Care Regulatory Ltd “An overview between the REACH requirements for chemical ingredients and cosmetics regulation

IAN ELSBY

CAROLINE RAINE

DR. GILL WESTGATE

Head of Chemical Industry GB&I Siemens plc “Digitalisation changes everything”

Chairman - BADGP “Latest transport regulations for dangerous goods”

Chair, Cosmetics Cluster UK “The science underpinning the Cosmetics and Personal Care Industry – A skills Focus”

JÜRGEN WEICHENBERGER

JAMES MCINTOSH

GARY WILDE

AI Managing Director of Accenture “Artificial Intelligence is not Artificial”

Head of CATCH Skills “Skills, competency and training solutions for the Chemical Industry”

Technical Services Officer - British Pump Manufacturers Association (BPMA) “CPSA (Certified Pump System Auditor)

CEO – BioVale “The Circular Bioeconomy: Chemistry beyond our gilded petroleum thought-cages”

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Vacuum Solutions for the Chemical Industry Utilising our expertise and experience, we provide a wide range of vacuum technologies from standard models to tailored solutions as well as service support for every process.

Rely on the trusted name for vacuum. Rely on Busch.

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Busch (UK) Ltd. +44 (0)1952 677432 l sales@busch.co.uk www.busch.co.uk

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Exhibitors List 2M Services

Flexachem UK Ltd

PMT (GB) Limited

abcr

Flexim Instruments UK Ltd

Premier Control Technologies

Actemium UK Ltd

Flexitallic UK Ltd

Premier Tech Chronos

Action Sealtite Ltd

Flotech Performance Systems

Promethean Particles

Adams Lubetech Ltd

Flowhire Ltd

ProMinent Fluid Controls (UK) Ltd

ADT Flexibles

Flowquip Ltd

Advanced Colours & Chemicals

Francis Ward Ltd

AllValves Online

Fullbrook Systems Ltd

AM Labels Ltd

GF Piping Systems Limited

AMCS Ltd

Gericke Ltd

Anton Paar Ltd

Glacier Energy Services

Arpadis UK

Gower Chemicals Limited

Ashcroft Instruments Limited

GPE Scientific Limited

Assentech Sales Limited

Grotech Production Ltd

AVT Pump

Grundfos Pumps Ltd

Retsch UK

BakerCorp UK

HACH

Richard Alan Group

BASA - British Adhesives & Sealants Assoc

Hawkes Fire

Royal Society of Chemistry

BCMPA - British Contract Manufacturers and Packers Association

Hempel Firmus Metals Ltd

RPC Group

HIBISCUS PLC

Rutpen Ltd

Bilfinger UK

Hosokawa Micron Ltd

SafeRack LLC

BioVale

HRS Heat Exchangers Ltd

Scully UK Ltd

BLH Nobel (VPG Systems UK)

Huber Kältemaschinenbau AG

Seepex UK Ltd

Borregaard UK Ltd

Hydrotechnik UK

BTC Europe

sera ProDos UK Ltd

IFC Inflow

Buckley Industrial Limited

Sierra Instruments

Invest Tees Valley

Bulk Powder Terminals

ISS Projects (UK) Ltd

Busch (UK) Ltd

Julabo UK Ltd

Calgavin Ltd

Katronic Technologies

Carbolite Gero

KDC Contractors

CDR Pumps (UK) Ltd

Kinder-Janes Engineering Ltd

Cepac

Kindlow Safety Services

Chem Resist Group Limited

Klinkau Filtration Systems

Chemical Industries Association

Klüber Lubrication Great Britain Ltd

Tank News International

Chemical Watch

Labtex Ltd

Tank Storage

Chemicals Northwest

Lankem Ltd

Tapflo UK

Chemie Solve Sourcing Ltd

Lauda Technology Limited

The Academy of Joint Integrity

Cod Beck Blenders Ltd

Leada Engineering

The Chemical Industry Journal

Cogent Skills

Libra Speciality Chemicals

The Pump Company

Conductorliner

Lisam Systems Ltd

Thinqk Pump Parts

Crest Pumps Ltd

Litre Meter

Tomlinson Hall & Co. Ltd

DCM - Dyes Chemical Market

Loadtec Engineered Systems Ltd

Tradebe Chemicals

DESMI Ltd

Lutz UK Ltd

UK Flowtechnik Ltd

Dixon Europe

Maelstrom Advanced Process Technologies Ltd

Dr. Knoell Consult Ltd

Magritek UK

Dura-ID Solutions

MCE ValvTechnologies Europe

Edwards Vacuum

MHT Technology Ltd

Elaflex Ltd

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The world’s first anti-static repair system How do you repair a pipe, crack or displaced joint using a material or method that will dissipate static charge so that there is no threat of explosion?

The BSI, issues standard BS60079-32 for electro-static hazards in potentially explosive atmospheres. All infrastructure repair systems in potentially explosive atmospheres should conform with this standard. They do not and never have. Up to now industry has been affecting repairs to negate environmental risk, unwittingly introducing an explosion risk. This is set to change for the first time in modern industrial history thanks to Conductorliner, which is EN/ BS60079-32 compliant, and is also proven to be the first 100% dissipative infrastructure repair system in the world.

THE PROBLEM Currently there are thousands of miles of underground pipes and associated infrastructure, much of it in the chemical and nuclear sectors.

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Up to now such materials have always been fibre glass patches, polyester liners and epoxy coating systems, which are insulators, meaning they break the continuity of the static flow and allow it to build-up, causing the potential for spark, explosion and possible chain reaction.

Such products do NOT CONFORM WITH the BS60079-32 standard for electro-static hazards in potentially explosive atmospheres.

Effectively current repair methods introduce the potential for explosion and spark, because they are NOT dissipative!

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POSITIVE TRENDS SHOW SHORT-TERM BREXIT STOCK BUILDING

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The latest Supply Chain Trends Survey from the Chemical Business Association (CBA) reveals further evidence of stock building ahead of the UK’s exit from the European Union.

These trends appear to be short-term as order books and sales are forecast to enter negative territory in three months time.

CBA’s Chief Executive, Peter Newport, said, “These results confirm anecdotal evidence from member companies.

Given the continued Brexit uncertainty and the lack of any real clarity concerning the final outcome of the process, the UK chemical supply chain is taking measures to maintain supplies to the manufacturing and service companies relying on key chemical components for their products and processes.”

The CBA’s latest on-line Trends Survey was conducted during the two weeks, 25 March to 5 April 2019 and is based on responses from 50 member companies.

ABOUT THE SURVEY CBA’s Supply Chain Trends Survey asks companies to provide information on order books, sales, sales margins, and employment, on a ‘better–worse–same’ basis. To measure short-term trends, the analysis ignores responses answering ‘same’ and focuses on the positive or negative balance provided by the difference between the ‘betterworse’ responses.

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Current Order Books – significant increase Members are asked if their order books are better, worse, or the same than during the previous three months. The March/April survey shows a positive balance of +34%, a significant increase from the positive balance of +14% reported in November 2018.

Sales Volumes – Current sales increase; future sales turn negative Respondents compare their current sales volumes with the preceding three months and indicate their expectations for the next three months. In line with increasing order books, current sales volumes show a positive increase since the last survey of +44% from the +7% reported in November 2018.

This trend is not forecast to continue as future sales trends reveal a negative balance of -14% in three months time.

Sales Margins – Current margins increasing; future sales margins negative Companies compare their current sales margins with the preceding three months and forecast their trend over the coming three months. Current sales margins have swung into positive territory (+22%) from the negative balance (-11%) reported in the last survey in November 2018. This boost is short-term as Respondents forecast sales margins will turn negative (-12%) over the next three months.

Employment & Training – Still positive, but weaker Member companies were asked if their employment and training levels would be higher, lower, or remain the same over the next three months. Trends for employment remain positive at +18%, a figure that is historically low but only marginally changed from the +16% balance reported in November 2018. Trends in training remain positive, with a positive balance of +28% reporting higher levels of current training and a higher positive balance of +38% reporting increased training levels over the next three months.

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Should an incident occur on-site, doing nothing about it won’t save you money or make the problem go away.

If the incident happens off-site, for example during transport, other parties may quickly be involved. These include the emergency services, the local authority, highways or environmental and other regulatory agencies. Having your own emergency procedures and back-up plans in place can help you to keep control of the incident – and the costs.

Direct costs can escalate quickly, even into millions of pounds. This can be from loss of business, the breadth of the clean-up operation, or from fines imposed by regulators. Harder to quantify but just as critical are the possible effects on reputation. Below are some published examples of incidents that resulted in fines and reputational damage: Perrywood Garden Centre and Nurseries Ltd was fined over £100,000 for health and safety offences in April 2017 when a member of staff developed breathing difficulties after clearing up spilled garden chemicals.

Ineos ChlorVinyls Limited was fined £166,650 after it admitted accidentally releasing sodium hydroxide into the Manchester Ship Canal while it was being loaded onto a ship berthed in the canal on 17 January 2012.

The filter failed and 3.8 metric tonnes of the chemical escaped onto the jetty and 500 litres into the canal. The company appealed the fine and lost in 2016, generating more publicity around the original incident.

Solvent Resource Management Ltd was fined £150,000 after a steel tank collapsed during the early hours of 11 March 2009 at its facility in Rye, East Sussex, releasing 340 tonnes of hazardous solvents across the site and into a neighbouring yard. The Fire Service attended the scene and placed a 300-metre cordon around the site for two days. A later investigation by the HSE and the Environment Agency found that a part of the tank’s interior wall had eroded from 5mm thick to less than 1mm thick, leaving it too weak to hold the solvent and causing the tank to split.

All of these cases were avoidable. The first priority is to have a plan. Pollution Prevention Guidance documents 21 and 22 cover writing the plan and spill response respectively.

Although PPG documents have officially been withdrawn in England and Wales, they remain available at www.netregs. org.uk/environmental-topics. PPG 21 has a template plan to follow. For example, listing contact details for the main stakeholders, including sources of specialist advice and clean-up. Getting the right help quickly keeps the incident under control and the final bill down.

One of your first calls could be to your insurer. For example, OAMPS has a High Hazard insurance product especially geared to dealing with incidents involving chemicals and oil and fuel products. The product includes a 24-hour incident reporting line to OHES Environmental. Calls are answered by the highly trained Incident Advisor team (most are chemists and qualified Dangerous Goods Safety Advisers or DGSA). After giving the initial advice they will organise a response to the incident. Chemical incident response is a specialist area, so it is important that the correct advice is given quickly and the right people called in with the necessary equipment, training and experience to ensure the incident is handled correctly.

OHES’s Incident Advisors are trained to ascertain the facts and risk assess the incident. This risk assessment considers (amongst other things) product hazards, quantities, location, remedial actions and the need to involve the emergency services. If the emergency services are in attendance it is crucial to provide key information to them quickly to avoid delays in the response. This information is usually supplied in the form of the product SDS, which the Incident Advisors can directly access if the company is subscribed to the 24-7 Emergency Advice service.

In dealing with 18,000 claims, there has not been a single prosecution where OHES provided the initial response.

Having the right back up in place will greatly mitigate the impact of any incident, however unlikely or unforeseen.

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process safety leadership Protecting people, assets and profit “Profits are to some extent the return for successful risk-taking,” observes Julian Hought, Managing Director of HFL Consulting. “This means that those in charge must understand the risks and manage them to maximise the return for shareholders.”

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“In the hazardous process industries, loss of containment events pose one of the biggest business risks and so leaders have to understand the hazards and risks to people, the environment and the business, and the short and long-term financial implications if things go wrong.”

“Good leadership is about involving everyone. Leaders should listen to those around them, encourage them to report problems and allow them to provide input to management on operational and safety management issues.”

HFL Consulting believes firmly in this mantra for businesses of all sizes across the process industries, and its’ training programmes have now reached more than 3,000 executives and senior managers in nearly 300 companies. But the team doesn’t just focus on training; they have written safety reports for more than 25% of upper tier sites under the Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) Regulations and have provided engineering consultancy and management systems support to most of them. In fact, they provide COMAH support to more companies than anyone else in the UK.

industries as well as public sector organisations, providing training, guidance and technical support.

“We provide a blend of leadership, management, consulting, engineering and training services to businesses of all sizes,” explains Julian. “Helping them to improve safety and efficiency in design, operation, maintenance, modification and decommissioning of complex hazardous facilities.”

Operating within a Quality Management System, certified to the requirements of ISO 9001:2015, HFL Consulting has been awarded a number of industry accolades in recent years. They are the previous recipients of the Chemical Industries Association (CIA) Chemical Industry Service Provider of the Year Award, the Cogent Skills Provider of the Year Award and the Chemicals Northwest Business Improvement Partner Award.

“Our range of services has been designed to help businesses develop people, plant and management processes to drive sustainable improvements in safety, productivity and profitability.”

HFL Consulting works with the oil and gas, chemicals, polymer, pharmaceutical, healthcare, waste and allied

Julian himself has been at the helm of the company for 18 years. “I’m an engineer by discipline, I went on to gain a PhD in Advanced Process Control and during my career I’ve been actively involved in the management of engineering projects, maintenance and compliance activities on high hazard sites. I’m using this knowledge now to assist our clients in addressing the challenges they face.”

“What we do goes far beyond a box-ticking exercise. For example, in our work on process safety management systems, we employ continuous improvement principles to maximise engagement and bring about lasting changes on client sites.”

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 From page 37 COLLABORATION AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING HFL Consulting has also been actively involved with the wider business community, working with industry trade bodies and cluster groups, providing training, seminars and benchmarking expertise to promote knowledge sharing.

The company, working with the CIA, embarked on the first ever process safety management benchmarking programme for the UK chemical industry. This looked at asset integrity management on 12 COMAH sites and was closely followed by a similar study covering the application of human factors.

“The PSM programme revealed some encouraging results but it also highlighted some leadership and management issues,” explains Julian. “Companies were allowing themselves to be regulated into action rather than setting their own programmes of work.”

“Aligning process safety policies with business objectives can bring about wider benefits. Some of the tools and techniques are transferable and can help improve quality and reliability too - safe and reliable operations are good for business.”

“A good leader will have a vision and be able to get this across but will respect the views of others and learn from them,” adds Julian.

DEVELOPING COMPETENCE AND CAPABILITY IN THE WORKPLACE

options, where some of the lesson materials are accessed online to support more formal instructor led training. This allows the basics to be covered through tailored self-study so that participants can come together to build on what they know through lectures, workshops and practical exercises.

Learners enrolled on the company’s own vocational training courses for Continuous Improvement in Process Safety are now benefiting from this approach. The CIProS™ qualifications include Certificates, Diplomas and Awards at Levels 3 and 7, with a Level 7 Award for Corporate Governance of Process Safety, to support everyone from supervisors to board members.

Mixing online digital material, with traditional classroom methods, delivers programmes that are far more flexible, cost-effective and better suited to learners in the workplace.

This approach makes the most of the face to face time participants have with their tutors, resulting in employees with the knowledge, skills, experience and attitudes to deliver what is needed.

“Our trainers have industry experience, as well as training qualifications,” explains Julian, “So they understand the challenges participants face and are able to deliver training using real-world examples to enhance the learning experience. People learn much better when abstract concepts are illustrated in this way.”

“We adopt similar principles in our own workplace. Our Competence Management System has been put together by subject matter experts with an understanding of different learning styles. And our internal training and development programmes are subjected to regular independent audit and management review.”

These are challenging times for the industry, with many businesses downsizing and needing to get more from the people they have. The need to train and retrain is becoming even more important. Many businesses are engaging contractors to fulfil aspects of their work, which adds additional complexities around the need for management skills and the role of the intelligent customer.

BUILDING SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES TO MAINTAIN STANDARDS

“In the high hazard industries, competence assurance has to be linked to the major accident hazards, risk assessments and critical tasks, making sure that those involved receive the information and instruction they need to complete them safely.”

“Our clients have asked us to look at a whole range of issues over the years. The way we work – developing systems and procedures based on standards and guidance and facilitating teams so that they own the solutions and action plans – helps them to make sustainable improvements.”

“Developing and maintaining competency is a big undertaking and employees are assets that need care, so employers should accept the need for ongoing investment as the people, processes and technology change over time.”

“But we know that some of the businesses we work with are really stretched for resources, so we provide practical handson support as well. We make our consultants and engineers available to work within client site teams, when needed.”

HFL Consulting’s work is increasingly becoming focused on developing people, but with a difference. The company takes the view that adults are able and willing to take responsibility for their own learning and so with the development of the company’s new Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), they are introducing blended learning

“In uncertain times it is all the more important for businesses to maintain a focus on process safety leadership.

With concerns about increased bureaucracy, disruption to supply chains and reports of stockpiling supplies in fear of shortage, leaders can’t afford to get distracted and take their eyes off the ball when it comes to process safety.”

“In the high hazard industries, competence assurance must be linked to the major accident hazards, risk assessments and critical tasks, making sure that those carrying out the tasks receive the information and instruction they need to complete them safely. Developing and maintaining competency is a significant undertaking but employees are the real assets here and employers must recognise the need for continued investment, as people, processes and technology change over time.”

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Brenntag UK and Ireland enters the next 100 years in the North East Brenntag, the global market leader in chemical distribution, have held an official opening of the new distribution site at the Turbine Business Park, Sunderland.

ingredients distribution, service and sales facility for North Cumbria and the North East of England, the site totals an impressive 3.4 acres, and features extensive mixing and blending facilities, dedicated specialised storage, bulk liquid storage and dedicated and segregated product storage.

The new Brenntag North East site is an important development for the region, and demonstrates Brenntag’s continuing commitment for chemical distribution to the region. The company has a remarkable history in the manufacturing industry across the UK & Ireland having been providing chemical ingredients and services to the material and life science and environmental industries for many years, for instance Brenntag have recently celebrated their 175 years in Scotland.

Russel Argo, Regional President Brenntag UK and Ireland, commented: “In 2018 we have celebrated 100 years of our history in the North East, and our new site marks a new era for Brenntag in the area. We have a fantastic heritage of servicing the North East and are extremely pleased that we will be able to expand our service offering to the region through our brand new facilities. This major investment signifies Brenntag’s strategic intent to further enhance the efficiency of our infrastructure, geographical reach and added value capabilities in the core markets we serve.”

Following Brenntag’s service model of operating locally across the UK & Ireland, while benefitting from the global reach of the Group, the purpose-built site has been designed to handle chemical products and ingredients for the variety of life, material and environmental manufacturing industries. Serving as a major chemical &

Site safety, logistics and sustainability aspects all featured heavily in the design brief for the new site. The site currently operates 24 hours, 5 days per week, with transport operations running 5 days per week, with the potential for twilights / night deliveries (CIJ: Brenntag sites in Bristol

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Over 100 manufacturers attended the open day, along with the Mayor of the City of Sunderland Lynda Scanlan and the Consort of the Mayor Micky Horswill, representatives of the North East Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC), Department of International Trade, and industry associations.

and Lutterworth have been successfully operating on the 24/6 schedule). Some features include a new QC laboratory, significantly increased storage for food ingredients, industrial and speciality chemicals, dedicated storage facilities and handling equipment for flammable liquids in packages, as well as added bulk liquid storage capacity for Caustic Soda Liquor, Sodium Hypochlorite, Hydrochloric Acid, and Sulphuric Acids of various concentrations.

The tank farm has been designed by Brenntag’s own engineering team to allow for further expansion of the bulk storage facilities with capacity for additional bulk storage to meet the growth plans of our business and that of Brenntag’s customers. Their established blending capabilities have been expanded further with the installation of two blend vessels with the capacity to manufacture over 8000 tonnes/ year of bespoke blends from 1,000lt to 25,000lts.

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As part of the ongoing commitment to sustainability, the company has invested in the new wind turbine. The first within Brenntag UK & Ireland, the unit will generate 13,000 kWh p.a. at an average speed of 5 m/s, which is enough energy to power the warehouse and office facility, reducing the site carbon footprint by approximately 4,000 kg per annum, consuming approximately 90% of the generated electricity with the balance being exported to the National grid.

“The Brenntag North East team were all heavily involved in the design and build of the site, and the Open Day that we held at the facilities at the beginning of the year was a fantastic recognition of their efforts” said Argo. www.brenntag.co.uk

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Hydrogen: The Second Dash for Gas? drawn up to pipe it directly into homes as an alternative The hydrogen economy is growing in domestic fuel. So what improvements have been made in publicity with references occurring in safety and how significant are the advantages that vastly technical journals and news reports, inboxes outweigh this preconception? are overflowing with hydrogen related courses, press releases and events. Perhaps ENVIRONMENT AND SAFETY now is the time to look at what the benefits of When hydrogen burns it produces water as opposed to a hydrogen economy could mean to the North conventional fossil fuels which produce CO2 – the main cause of global warming. Hydrogen is therefore a good East and how we as a region can seize the choice for replacing fossil fuels such as natural gas, diesel opportunity. or petrol in applications where it is particularly hard to reduce CO2 emissions by other means. Additionally, combustion does not generate particulates, which can be problem in urban locations or enclosed areas and is estimated to lead to approximately 29,000 deaths per year in the UK.

The hydrogen market is developed and established due to its use in ammonia and methanol production, as well as in the refining of crude oil. However, more recently, its use is transitioning as it becomes an energy vector too in areas such as transport, fossil fuel replacement and energy storage.

ENERGY SYSTEM STABILITY AND OPTIMISATION

Furthermore, there is growing development of hydrogen’s potential in the domestic setting as well as its current industrial use. When most think of hydrogen one of their first thoughts is the 1937 Hindenburg disaster and yet, despite this, safety surrounding hydrogen has developed such that, less than 100 years later, plans are being

Hydrogen can be produced by the electrolysis of water and thus can assist with balancing supply and demand on the National Grid, this is especially important with the higher utilisation of renewable generation such as wind and solar resulting in supplies onto the grid being hard to predict and control compared to conventional generation.

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 From page 43 By utilising surplus electricity to produce hydrogen the imbalance can be controlled, and a useful product obtained that can either then be used as hydrogen in transport or industrial processes for example. Alternatively, hydrogen can be stored and converted back into electricity when there is a shortfall by using fuel cells.

Compressed hydrogen has an energy density 4x that of Lithium Ion Batteries on a volume basis and 3x that of petrol on a mass basis making the use of hydrogen as an energy storage medium very attractive for both fixed energy storage systems and a replacement for petrol and diesel-powered vehicles.

HYDROGEN USE The use of hydrogen poses several unique technical, social, financial and political challenges and work is ongoing to overcome and current progress is considered to be very positive.

The nature of the hydrogen molecule, being extremely small and its very fast flame speed, present a number of challenges which need to be considered in the design of hydrogen related equipment. Although these challenges are present with natural gas and petrol for example, mitigation measures have been built into existing engineering and operational controls.

The extremely small nature of the hydrogen molecule mean that leakage rates are much greater than other gases and hydrogen can actually dissolve into metals affecting their properties and leading to embrittlement if materials of construction are not carefully selected. Integrity of joints in hydrogen systems is critically important to ensure that leakage is controlled.

It must be remembered that the Chemical Industry is widely experienced at designing, operating and maintaining large scale complex systems containing dangerous and corrosive gases and has a good safety record - experience that is transferable to that required for the hydrogen economy in general.

The issues associated with utilising hydrogen in domestic equipment, such as cookers and hot water boilers, are currently being explored through several different studies examining both safety and practicality of the conversion of the existing natural gas distribution network to hydrogen.

The use of hydrogen in domestic equipment is likely to require changes to the design of burners that are optimised for natural gas and these changes may require the purchase of new equipment, installation of conversion kits. Indeed, in future, dual fuel equipment may be released on the market capable of firing either hydrogen or natural gas.

The situation with the use of hydrogen for transport is much further advanced with both hydrogen fuelled vehicles, trains and refuelling stations already available and operating in some areas. In this case the situation can be compared with the roll out of electric vehicles albeit due to the higher ranges and re-fuelling speeds currently seen on hydrogen vehicles the infrastructure requirements are likely to be less.

HYDROGEN AND THE NEPIC REGION Teesside already has 50 per cent of the UK’s total hydrogen production with BOC’s steam methane reformer, as well as distribution pipelines and salt caverns for transporting and storing large volumes of hydrogen. SABIC’s “Cracker” also produces hydrogen as by-product of the cracking of ethane and used internally in the process and as a fuel gas.

project allowing additional “green hydrogen” to be produced utilising electrolysis. Furthermore, the Carbon Capture network proposed by Teesside Collective has already examined and costed the installation and operation of Carbon Capture from BOC’s steam methane reformer.

The ambitious H21 Leeds City Gate project seeks to demonstrate the conversion of a large metropolitan area from natural gas to hydrogen and looks to produce this from four new 256MW steam methane reformers located in the Tees Valley - utilising salt caverns for storage and the proposed Teesside Collective CCS network to capture the carbon produced during manufacture.

In terms of transport and logistics, the region also makes a fantastic location for the development and roll-out of hydrogen powered vehicles given the existing hydrogen assets, supply chain, skills and knowledgebase that already exists.

Additionally, the manufacturing sector within the region generates in a high number of vehicle movements covering relatively high mileage per day but within a physically compact area. The region is already familiar with High Hazard COMAH sites and makes the provision of hydrogen refuelling facilities less problematic than if there was the need to install a much more geographically diverse network.

Work is already going on to examine and increase the efficiency of hydrogen production by fermentation of wastes and biomass thus adding further opportunities to produce green hydrogen.

Again, the region has vast experience in biotechnology that can be harnessed to take advantage of this opportunity.

CONCLUSION The growth of the Hydrogen Economy is increasing and will result in significant disruption to many existing markets ranging from automotive, domestic equipment, oil and gas and energy through to the process sector. This disruption also creates a number of opportunities and it is up to us as a region and sector to seize these and exploit our talents and resources to ensure we are at the forefront of the process and enjoy the commercial and environmental benefits rather than be left behind as our competitor’s race ahead.

The NEPIC region is ideally placed to take advantage of the benefits of the hydrogen economy due to the unique combination of existing assets, established supply chain, unrivalled R&D facilities and the skills and experience of the existing workforce. One thing is for certain, if the region does not firmly grasp the opportunity other regions will and we will miss out on the economic and energy security benefits associated with the Hydrogen Economy. Already other regions such as the North West are progressing plans to incorporate H2 and Carbon Capture and Storage in parallel with Germany, Japan and the US already active in developing substantial hydrogen powered transport systems.

Given the potential benefits to the region NEPIC is keen to see the North East process sector at the forefront of the hydrogen economy and will be looking to work with members to seek opportunities and help progress this vital technology. As part of this we will be engaging with key players to understand how we can help the region deliver the opportunities a hydrogen-based economy promises. www.nepic.co.uk

The region is also well provided with existing electrical generation with more schemes currently in planning, including several renewable and biomass plants, and the grid connection point for part of the Dogger Bank Wind Farm

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Dachser Chem-Logistics – specialised transport for specialist goods In the specialised world of chemical transport and distribution it is vital to have experts handling the movements and storage at every stage. Dachser Chem-Logistics provides a team of experts and presents itself as a reliable logistics partner for companies in the chemical industry. Special training in safety and chemical product handling is essential and layered above this logistics expertise is the worldwide Dachser service network, including European Logistics and the global Dachser Air & Sea Logistics.

Data and accurate information transfer are key to ChemLogistics and Dachser’s innovative IT system ensures quick and safe handling and management of orders in all locations. In addition, access to all transport data throughout the entire supply chain provides the customer with the highest level of safety especially for the transport of chemical products.

Industry-specific consulting services are also available as part of Dachser’s approach. In many incidences, it is important that tailored transportation concepts and warehouse solutions are designed for the specific needs of each customer, appropriate to the commodities in which they deal; especially those accessing multifarious worldwide sales and procurement markets, with variable regulations.

Dachser provides sustainable optimisation for the logistics balance sheets of a wide-range of chemical companies and offers a long-term outsourcing model for higher logistics efficiency throughout all levels of the value chain; including the seamless transition to Dachser Contract Logistics services where relevant.

In this way both transport products and services combine standardised logistics solutions with individual chemical logistics know-how throughout the entire supply chain.

The entire portfolio offers the optimum Pan-European transportation solution; combined of course with consistent standards with regard to transportation and quality that creates trust and safety in all cases.

As readers will agree, there is no room for error in logistics for the chemistry sector. Dachser Chem-Logistics has as its prime objective the safe and secure handling of all goods in its care; the team are dedicated completely to this goal. Safety is the highest priority. The transportation of dangerous goods is governed by stringent legal requirements and regulations.

Since chemicals are at the beginning of the value chain for many products in different industries, the demand is correspondingly high - and so are the transportation volumes on roads, in maritime containers or on-board aircraft. This also includes professional handling of dangerous goods. Logistics professionals must ensure the safety of people, the environment and material goods with comprehensive protective measures throughout all transport phases. That means, in addition to sound knowhow, excellent knowledge of the industry is required for the transport and storage of chemical goods.

For this reason, Dachser relies only on its own employees, who are trained in the handling of chemical goods. The principles for safety, quality, health and environmental protection formulated by Dachser in the company guidelines far exceed the applicable legal requirements.

Our employees pay particular attention to proper load securing. A central in-house dangerous goods safety advisor, as well as over a hundred and forty regional dangerous goods specialists in the branches, monitor compliance with all national and international statutory provisions in addition to the Dachser dangerous goods guidelines.

Together they are responsible for the transportation of in access of 2.8 million deliveries of dangerous goods per year.

The Dachser network also maintains numerous hazardous materials storage sites, which are at the disposal of customers and form an integral part of the Chem-Logistics supply chain solution, individualized when necessary to include Contract Logistics services. www.dachser.co.uk

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The benefits of government apprenticeship reforms to employers Apprenticeships offer employers large and small a fantastic opportunity to get the skilled workforce they need to grow their business.

There are hundreds of thousands of employers up and down the country that are already seeing the positive impact and energy that apprentices are bringing to their workplace. From large multinational companies like Royal Mail and Coca Cola to public sector organisations like the NHS and the Armed forces and much smaller local firms, all types of employer are offering people of all ages and backgrounds the chance to secure a great job and get ahead in their career.

To help with this we’ve taken a number of steps to ensure that apprentices are gaining the skills that employers are rightly demanding. Most importantly, we have put quality at the heart of apprenticeships.

We have completely overhauled the system, working closely with employers and industry to design high quality, more flexible apprenticeships known as ‘standards’. In addition, we require apprentices to spend at least 20% of their time in off the job training, and making sure through the introduction of the end point assessment in standards – delivered by an organisation specialising in these end of apprenticeship tests – apprentices are ‘job ready’. There are already over 350 new standards available in sectors from banking to hairdressing, aerospace engineering to architecture. And there are many more being developed by employers across the country in all sectors and occupations where they want to create an apprenticeship route.

To ensure that quality remains consistent, we’re phasing out the old style apprenticeships known as ‘Frameworks’ so

“Businesses can now also transfer up to 10% – increasing to 25% from April 2019 – of their levy funds to any other employer so they can benefit too.”

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that from the start of the 2020/21 academic year, all new apprenticeship starts will be on our new standards. These changes are making sure that today’s apprenticeships reflect what businesses want and need.

We also want employers to be confident that the training their apprentices are receiving is high quality. To support this we have taken decisive action to strengthen the high bar that training providers must already meet before they can register with us. Only training providers that meet the tougher registration requirements can deliver apprenticeship training and access government funding.

In April 2017 we introduced the apprenticeship levy to create long-term, sustainable investment in apprenticeship training. All large firms with a pay bill of over £3 million pay the Levy and then they use it to pay for apprenticeship training of their choice. By 2019-20 we will be investing £2.45 billion in the programme annually which means more money is available than ever before for firms to invest in the next generation of workers’ training and skills, with every penny spent on apprenticeships training. Businesses can now also transfer up to 10% – increasing to 25% from April 2019 – of their levy funds to any other employer so they can benefit too.

And to support smaller employers who don’t pay the Levy, but may be thinking of taking on an apprentice, we recently announced up to £240 million of additional funds to halve their apprenticeship training costs, by reducing the amount of money that they have to pay from 10% to 5%.

There’s so many great reasons to hire an apprentice.

They are a great way to reenergise your workplace, and bring in the skills your business needs to thrive. Everyone benefits from the economic gain of having a more skilled workforce, which is why we want to continue to encourage all employers – large and small – to take advantage of the changes we have made and consider taking on apprentices. So if you are thinking of taking the plunge and need some help the National Apprenticeships Services is on hand to offer advice and support. I can assure you won’t regret it.

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Degree apprenticeships: a first class route to building a talent pipeline Alex Felthouse Managing Director of Eisai Manufacturing Ltd and Science Industry Partnership Board Member

Degree Apprenticeships (L5- L8) provide the solution to this continuum and are set to revolutionise learning for our life sciences sector, offering a robust education pathway through to a Masters-level qualification.

Research1 undertaken in support of the Science Industry Partnership (SIP) 2025 Skills Strategy identified that the Medicines Manufacturing Sector, a strategic UK industry in which Eisai is a key player, needs to recruit around 1000 people a year, with a significant focus on highly specialist scientific roles.

These higher level apprenticeships offer an employerdesigned, structured learning programme for new entrants and existing employees. They reflect the rapidly advancing knowledge base and the increasing role of digital our sector needs to embrace in order to compete internationally. And of course they also support the sector to progress, develop and deliver solutions to our complex healthcare needs.

And indeed the wider STEM using sector will need to fill 250,000 jobs by 2025. This forecast includes up to 142,000 professional graduate level jobs and up to 73,000 technical level entry roles.

A growing number of science industry employers are now looking at how they might use their Apprenticeship Levy to fund such high quality programmes, which have been designed to not only equip the learner with key technical and scientific skills, but also the knowledge and behaviours required to work in both small and large life science organisations.

The SIP is now focussed on a skills demand and workforce planning Strategy that will take us through to 2030 – updating its research, while at the same time developing an action plan for skills, based on a gap analysis of key skills and education provision required to future proof the life science sector.

In essence the skilled people required by the sector will need to come directly from education or from other related sectors. And structured, high quality training will be essential in achieving this goal. The onus is on the life sciences industry to attract people into the sector, recognising that the workforce is far more mobile than in previous years, and only by working together will we achieve this goal.

With the advent of high quality L2 to L4 apprentice training in the life science sector, from research through to manufacturing, there needs to be a continuum of training to support these early entrants into industry, thus enabling them to continue their professional development and career progression.

Indeed, against a backdrop of apprenticeship uptake decline, starts in science occupations are rising, bucking the national trend - with the most recent data at 3,650 (covering Oct ‘17 to Sep ’18). This is the highest this has been since the SIP has started reporting data and the 4th consecutive 4-quarter increase (see below).

THERE ARE A RANGE OF ADVANTAGES OFFERED BY DEGREE APPRENTICESHIP ROUTES, AND ENSURING A SUCCESSFUL PROGRAMME MEANS THINKING ABOUT SKILLS REQUIREMENTS FROM THE OUTSET. Take, for example, the Laboratory Scientist Degree Apprenticeship Standard, the first one at Degree level to be developed by the SIP facilitated employer-led Life Sciences and Industrial Science (LSIS) Trailblazer Group. The latest data from the Department of Education (DfE) shows that there were 70 starts on this Standard in the first quarter of the 2018/19 academic year (Aug-Oct ’18), which is a promising take-up by the sector.

It means that young people embarking on a career in our sector can achieve a full University honours degree while earning a salary, working on practical tasks in a laboratory environment. Science-using companies are utilising it as a way of developing scientific talent; undertaking this Standard can lead to a job in a range of areas and roles including Analytical Chemist, Research & Development Scientist, Molecular Biologist, Formulation Scientist, Medicinal Chemist and Process Scientist.

This Apprenticeship Standard is recognised by the Science Council at Registered Scientist (RSci) level and its duration is typically 60 months.

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Another, more recently launched Apprenticeship Standard is Bioinformatics Scientist (Masters Degree Level) which will meet a growing need. Bioinformaticians are scientists who use computer and data mining techniques which are applied to a range of problems in the life sciences, for example, in pharmaceutical companies in the process of drug discovery and development. Roles require scientists who understand life sciences, and who can work computationally with diverse and large volumes of data derived from different life science activities.

then looks to support the development of an Apprenticeship Standard for the occupation.

When developing a new Standard, the employer-led Life Science and Industrial Science (LSIS) Trailblazer considers where such a need exists in consultation with industry, it

For Life Sciences organisations the appeal is the practical, work-based learning that takes place during the programme. Learners can apply both their knowledge and

With this in place it can work with Universities to ensure a fit-for-purpose offer in any new area. An extra part of this is then to work with the professional bodies who accredit degree programmes, to adapt such accreditations to Degree-level Apprenticeships so that apprentices and employers have equivalent measures of quality assurance and routes towards recognised professional registration.

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A Degree Level Apprenticeship requires the apprentice to complete a work-based project and generate a “synoptic report”. This allows the apprentice to demonstrate their project management skills whilst critically evaluating their outcomes in relation to organisational needs. This supervised project essentially looks at a particular organisational challenge, chosen together with the employer. This gives the learner a deep understanding of the company and in turn provides the company with a fresh perspective.

Life Science employers themselves are key to the success of such programmes, as apprentices need full and ongoing support during their study and help in applying new skills and knowledge in the work setting. It is certainly worth putting the time in to communicate the benefits of this route internally and explain the fantastic returns which can accrue from developing talent this way.

PROVISION The Science Industry Partnership recognises that finding a provider that has the right curriculum and approach and is willing to develop a deep relationship with employers, and understanding of their scientific and technical roles, is critical to the success of a Degree Apprenticeship programme.

The big question right now is do we have the quality of national provision the sector requires to deliver the education we need?

The work of the 2030 Skills strategy will look to assess this question by undertaking a review of vocational skills training delivery, including gap analysis of the training provision base. Producing an interactive geographical heat map of current provision and identifying where provision shortages exist.

The UK Life Sciences sector continues to make advances in science and technology which improve all our lives, making new discoveries that deliver treatments once unimaginable.

It has an ongoing need to recruit, train and develop employees and its demand for higher-level skills will only continue to intensify.

This important 2030 Strategy will ensure we focus our efforts on emerging and growing skills shortages, providing us with clear priority areas that we can target with both action and solutions. It will also support us to develop a Post-Brexit skills policy to identify provision gaps that are resulting in the need to look outside of the UK for the science skills essential for growth.

This approach needs to be responsive and based on employer demand, rather than the current and expedient shortage arrangements. Industry needs access to essential skills not currently available in the UK; maintaining expertise and scientific knowledge in innovation and research will be key in the future.

We look forward to working with all our partners on this important work, including the Medicines Manufacturing Industry Partnership (MMIP), Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), BioIndustry Association (BIA), and of course the Government Office for Life Sciences (OLS) which is leading on the Government’s Industrial Strategy for Life Sciences, for which this Strategy will deliver the key People strand of the joint industry Plan to ensure our sector is set for success.

The SIP is an established, influential Employer Partnership for the science industries, which takes direct responsibility for sectoral ambition on skills. Alex Felthouse, SIP Board member, is leading on the 2030 Strategy development.

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Leadership Does your leadership team know what good Major Hazard Leadership looks like?

Are you ready for the HSE’s new Major Hazard Leadership Intervention?

Cogent Skills Process Safety Leadership for Senior Executives course tailored to the needs of Senior Executives and Board Members, is designed to address how to promote a positive safety culture throughout the organisation and the business case for effective process safety management. “HSE is keen to support the development and delivery of training and coaching for board members and managers in process safety. It is essential that the momentum on improving competence in process safety management is maintained throughout the sector in order to ensure those involved in managing major hazard risks gain and maintain the knowledge and skills essential to avoid a major accident.

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Are you ready for the HSE’s new Major Hazard Leadership Intervention?

Whatever the nature of the organisation, leadership is a cross sector issue.

Lessons from major incidents across a wide range of industries have highlighted leadership failures as key issues.

Boardroom decisions have a significant impact upon major hazard safety, but this is not always recognised as that impact may not be felt until sometime later.

In most major incidents, information was available somewhere in the organisation suggesting that safety barriers were not sufficiently robust, but these weak signals were neither recognised nor acted upon by senior leaders and decision makers.

Does your leadership team know what good Major Hazard Leadership looks like?

Leadership is becoming increasingly important within industry, and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are keen to improve this in 2019.

They want to see commitment to the delivery of training and coaching for board members and managers in process safety. The HSE state that it is essential that the momentum on improving competence in process safety management and leadership is maintained throughout the sector in order to ensure those involved in managing major hazard risks gain and maintain the knowledge and skills essential to avoid a major accident.

They have recognised that the adoption of the Process Safety Management Programme can help companies achieve and demonstrate effective process safety management.

The development of the training standards for process safety in 2011 provided the opportunity for Cogent Skills and the Process Safety Management Competence Programme Board to develop a suite of courses that allowed the Process Safety Management programme to be rolled out in companies through a top down approach; starting at boardroom level and all the way through to operators.

“The vision of the PSM Competence Programme Board is that people understand what might happen, understand their part in preventing catastrophic incidents through education, competence and knowledge. The underlying principles of process safety can be applied to the management of hazards and risks in many sectors, and in companies of all sizes.

Businesses need to understand that a catastrophic event is possible, to understand what preventative processes they have in place and whether those measures are working” Richard Roff, Chair of the Process Safety Management Competence Programme Board The emphasis on improving process safety culture also sets the suite of process safety courses apart from more traditional courses that deliver a heavier technical focus, and the training course suite is the only one to be underpinned by Training Standards approved by the UK’s Process Safety Management Competence Programme Board.

Now a barometer of competence in the major hazard industries, and described by the HSE as “best in class”, the Competent Authority will look favourably on organisations during routine inspections, if employers can evidence such training taking place.

Cogent Skills will be hosting a free morning networking event on ‘Are you ready for the HSE’s new Major Hazard Leadership Intervention’ between 8:30am - 11:00am on the 14th May 2019 in Warrington / 11th September 2019 in Leeds 2nd October 2019 in Warrington / 7th November 2019 in Darlington Throughout the morning there will be an informative presentation delivered by implementation specialists. You will be provided with the opportunity to share your own relative industry knowledge and network with peers. *Guest Speaker* For further information or to book your place, you can contact a member of the team using the details below.

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A unique combination of laboratories, workshops and office space for science and technology-based companies The University of Wolverhampton Science Park is located on a prime site approximately a mile north of Wolverhampton city centre and a few minutes away from i54 Enterprise Zone; it benefits from easy access to the UK motorway network, intercity rail services and several regional airports.

After more than 20 years of progression and expansion, the site now comprises over 140,000 ft2 of space for companies in all stages of development and growth. There is dedicated business support on site as well as a business incubation space and services to support new business ventures.

Today, the Science Park is home to around 100 businesses working in a broad range of technological, creative and scientific disciplines including: water technology, environmental research, environmental management, engineering design and consultancy, software development, photography / videography, graphics, website design, , bespoke training and education, healthcare and business support services.

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and shared equipment facilities, the centre aims to improve regional, economic performance and attract inward investment to the area, by combining these resources with access to a World-Leading research base, talented graduate resources and a range of business support services provided by the University of Wolverhampton.

Since its official opening in 2018, the Science Centre has been shortlisted for seven awards, scooping Regional Winner (West Midlands) for Best Large Commercial Building at the LABC Excellence Awards and eagerly awaiting the outcome from two forthcoming award ceremonies.

The expanding tenant community at the Science Park have prospered from the wide range of support services available, together with high quality work-space and support facilities.

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Northern Powerhouse Chemicals Sector A report by the North of England’s leading universities and top Tees Valley officials has highlighted how the chemical and process sector across the Northern Powerhouse could grow by more than £20billion over the next 20 years.

The Northern Powerhouse Chemicals & Processing Sector Science and Innovation Audit is one of a selection of major government studies produced for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, to identify identified a number of strengths in different industries across the country.

Co-authored by the Tees Valley Combined Authority and Durham University, the report set out to assess the chemical and processing sector’s innovation network across the Northern Powerhouse – the economic corridor between Tees Valley, Humberside and the North West Cluster around Liverpool.

Chemicals and processing currently contributes £32billion to the UK economy, but the audit identified opportunities, actions and investment that could be taken to boost this figure by £23billion.

part of our economy in Tees Valley, and in other parts of the Northern Powerhouse. The history of the chemical industry is in many ways the history of Teesside, and with the right effort we can make this vital sector part of our future for decades to come.

“We now have a choice, we can embrace the findings of this report and look to grow this sector, or we can stand by and watch it decline. For me there is no choice, and it is clear that there is no status quo. We can move backward or forwards.”

Professor Stuart Corbridge, Vice-Chancellor, Durham University, said: “The North of England has tremendous strengths in research and innovation, underpinned by close working between some of the country’s leading universities and industry.

“Building upon this, there are huge opportunities to grow the transfer of skills, technology and research knowledge between universities and businesses in the chemicals and process sector, with potentially enormous benefits for the economy of the North and the UK as a whole.

“We look forward to working with our partners in industry and government as we aim to find a way forward to implement the ambitious proposals of this report.”

The report provides and evidence base for a £20million bid to Government’s Strength In Places fund, to create a worldclass research presence to pioneer new approaches to the low carbon economy, meaning the chemicals industry can continue to be globally competitive and environmentally sustainable.

The science and innovation audit was delivered by a group led by the Combined Authority comprising representatives from Durham and Teesside Universities, the North East Process Industry Cluster and the region’s national innovation centres, the Centre for Process Innovation, Materials Processing Institute and TWI. Further engagement was sought from 15 Northern Powerhouse universities, 11 LEPs within the Northern Powerhouse, sectoral bodies, via industrial consultation and the Chemistry Growth Partnership.

It would also see an ambassador established for the Northern Powerhouse chemicals cluster, to drive forward growth, investment and innovation.

The full Tees Valley Science and Innovation Audit can be found online at www.teesvalley-ca.gov.uk/researchintelligence/sia

These include further industrial digitalisation, opportunities for scale and growth through supply chain and export diversification, and sectoral free trade zones.

Tees Valley Local Enterprise Partnership chair Paul Booth OBE said: “The chemical and process sector is a huge

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Supporting industry to reduce the risk of human error Managing human error to reduce risk is a priority for the chemical industry and one consultancy taking steps to bring this about is Lorraine Braben Consulting (LBC).

As a Chartered Chemical Engineer with a 30year career in the process industry, Lorraine Braben understands the challenges faced by her clients. Moreover, having significant experience in HR and Human Factors in Process Safety, Lorraine is well-placed to advise clients on risk reduction; reflected in her accreditation by the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors.

When examining major incidents, there are usually many contributing factors. It is important to recognise that people will behave in a way that makes sense to them at the time. The environment, systems and resources available will impact their behaviour and we can optimise them to create an environment which minimises undesirable behaviours or which can deal with the consequences of human error. To quote psychologist James Reason: ‘You cannot change the human condition, but you can change the conditions in which humans work’ – which is why human factors awareness, training, and mentoring is so important.

“My work is all about supporting businesses in managing the risk of human error,” explains Lorraine. As the HSE describes: ‘Human factors refer to environmental, organisational and job factors, and human and individual characteristics, which influence behaviour at work in a way which can affect health and safety.’

“Most of my clients come under the Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) regulations and I assist them with all aspects of Human Factors management: audits and assessments, project planning and delivery, training and mentoring.”

Mitigating risk necessitates investigating what really happens in the workplace. There is often a disconnect between ‘work as practised’ compared to ‘work as imagined’ and managers need to understand the reality of how their plants are actually operated and maintained.

“Every audit or assessment I conduct is designed around the standards for that particular industry, thereby assisting clients to identify potential gaps in their systems. Once I have this information, I can design and deliver a strategy which focuses on improving the resilience in these areas.”

within Lorraine’s remit. As a qualified trainer, she also designs and delivers bespoke courses for clients, meeting their specific industry standards which helps to reduce risk by improving competence.

“I like to build long-term relationships with my clients, to gain a solid understanding of their business and provide a service which adds real value.”

Lorraine will be presenting a paper with coauthor Nick Morris at the IChemE ‘Hazards 29’ Conference in May on their work to design and implement a new system for managing organisational change for an upper tier COMAH site. brabenconsulting.co.uk

Developing strategy, supporting clients to deliver their projects around Human Factors topics, or sitting in on HSE interventions all fall

Award for NUI Galway Student She has been working on synthesis and evaluation of ligands for the macrophage galactose C-type lectin (CLEC10A). CLEC10A is a protein found on the surface of cells of the immune system, and has a role in viral infection, such as infection by the Ebola virus. She has conducted her research mostly at NUI Galway and also travelled for periods to ISAS in Germany to the laboratory of Ulrika Westerlind, supported by an EMBO travel award, and to the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre (affiliated with the Harvard Medical School in Boston) to the laboratory of Gabriel Birrane.

Adele Gabba, a PhD student in the School of Chemistry at NUI Galway, has been awarded the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland Inaugural Postgraduate Award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to research.

The award from the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland also acknowledged Adele’s unwavering commitment to supporting and promoting Chemistry within her University and via her active participation in a wide array of public engagement initiatives. Adele has been very active in Kitchen Chemistry, which contributes to public events, such as the Galway Science and Technology Festival.

She has also contributed to other events such as FameLab and Soapbox Science.

Originally from Italy, Adele is an Irish Research Council funded PhD scholar, who is currently in the final year of her study.

Professor John Cassidy, President of the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland praised the excellence of Adele’s research as well as

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recognising the mentorship she provides to younger students. Professor Celine Marmion, incoming President of the Institute, offered her congratulations to Adele, indicating she is a most worthy recipient of this award and wished her continued success and happiness in her current and future endeavors. Professor Marmion also offered congratulations to her PhD supervisor, Professor Paul Murphy, to the School of Chemistry and to NUI Galway.

Dr Patrick O’Leary, Head of the School of Chemistry at NUI Galway, said: “It’s great to see Adele’s work being recognised. She has truly embraced all that a PhD can offer in terms of her own research excellence, exposure to other research areas, training as a science communicator and inspiring the next generation of STEM students.

Once she finishes in NUI Galway we look forward to seeing bright career ahead for her.”

The Institute of Chemistry is the professional body representing chemists in Ireland.

The mission of the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland is to promote Chemistry and to represent the profession of Chemistry in Ireland.

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Can private equity investment unlock your company’s future growth opportunities?

For owners and management teams of businesses considering future growth opportunities, in the immediate and longer term, why is private equity investment an avenue worth exploring?

Companies within the chemicals sector often have scalable business models, low client churn rates due to deep customer relationships, and high recurring revenues through repeat orders. Add to that the fragmented nature of the market and you bring the opportunity for consolidation. For ambitious businesses, funding from the right investment partner can bring the opportunity to scale rapidly and, at the same time, enable shareholders to unlock some of the value created in the business.

initiative, while generating additional revenue and cost synergies.

Beyond the original transaction (e.g. to finance an MBO), investment from Sovereign typically includes follow-on funding to fuel organic and/ or acquisitive growth. So what are some of the benefits of a ‘Buy & Build’ growth strategy?

We then work in partnership with management teams to unlock opportunities such as helping to appoint industry-leading non-executive support; leveraging our due diligence capability; utilising our origination team to identify acquisition opportunities; or to act as a strategic sounding board.

Organic Growth: Investment in such initiatives can create value through top-line growth, profit margin improvement or increased valuation multiples. For example: product enhancement: by adding new lines, improving procurement of raw materials, or enhancing routes to market; developing new offerings: by expanding into new customer segments and regions or productising existing offerings to reduce variable costs;

How can Sovereign help? We offer businesses a flexible approach to investment and deal structures. Recent transactions include the purchase of companies in their entirety to allow owner-managers to retire; the acquisition of substantial shareholdings to enable shareholders to ‘de-risk’ and release some of the equity value in their companies; and backing MBOs.

sales optimisation: by enhancing the sales and marketing function, developing new distribution channels and managing the partnership ecosystem.

Strategic Acquisitions: Such acquisitions can act as growth accelerators. They can help a business achieve in one year what might take over five years organically. When Sovereign invested in Cordium, a tech-enabled compliance services company, the team identified a need to develop a compliance workflow product. To reduce the risk and time associated with developing the product in-house, Sovereign supported the acquisition of market-leader EvenWheel. This enabled Cordium to accelerate against its strategic

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For more information about Sovereign’s investment approach contact: edgoddard@sovereigncapital.co.uk Ed Goddard is an Investment Director at Sovereign Capital Partners. www.sovereigncapital.co.uk

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Making a difference with Process Safety Leadership We wrote last year that 2019 was to be the year of leadership, and shared a handful of key messages that organisations should bear in mind as the topic is brought into focus.

Now, as the regulatory year is edging closer, we explore how the principles of process safety leadership can be used to improve safety not just within an organisation, but throughout industry as a whole.

November last year saw the launch of ‘Solutions for Our Future’, a programme about the UK’s chemical industry produced by the Chemical Industries Association in partnership with ITN Productions. RAS Ltd were lucky enough to be involved, and used the opportunity to deliver our message on leadership, focussing on four key themes that should help organisations to embed the principles of leadership into their operations. The principles start within the organisation, but it is important to appreciate how our combined efforts will create a safer industry.

MANAGING PROCESS SAFETY HAZARDS The decisions of leaders have a direct impact on the safety of their establishment. Without an understanding of their major accident hazards, leaders cannot allocate the right resources or instil a culture that prioritises safety.

With this in mind, organisations should ask themselves how many people on their board know about process safety management, and how confident they are that the depth of their knowledge allows safety to be at the root of all decisions. A competent leader who understands the hazards at their establishment and how the PSM system links together will appreciate that productivity is a by-product of safety. When you invest in safety, you invest in equipment integrity, wellbeing and morale and high reliability processes; pillars of successful operations.

MONITORING PERFORMANCE Making investments in safety is most effective when focussed in the right places; places which will inevitably change over time. The key to prioritising is collecting data on how existing people, plant and processes are performing.

A tiered approach considering process areas at a high level right down to plant items that are individual barriers can provide a clear picture. Being transparent and reporting results to the right people will secure the focus of those who can make a difference. A Board member will need to know where the big investments should be made, but an engineering manager can make an immediate difference with inspection results from their plant area.

PUBLISHING PERFORMANCE DETAILS The previous paragraph illustrates that what is being measured is being managed, but this doesn’t just apply internally. Sharing and collaboration is a key principle of leadership, and publishing details on performance creates a benchmark; something that will drive improvement forward by sharing ideas and lessons learnt. Associations like the CIA and TSA enable us to talk more openly with government, the regulator and our peers. It doesn’t have to be a mechanism for naming and shaming; good results boost the confidence of the public, the regulator and stakeholders, encourage engagement and increase morale.

SHARING BEST PRACTICE When people work together, they can draw attention to issues and be the starting point for change. Sharing best practice through trade associations like those named above can result in the regulations, standards and guidance that facilitate a consistent approach across industry; one that works practically for operators. Beyond this, what can we learn from other sectors? The principles of risk are the same no matter what the industry is, and it is worthwhile considering how lessons from others should be implemented.

Furthermore, industry and academia have much to gain from one another. The latest knowledge from academia can be applied in practice by the operator. For example, what insight can psychologists provide to safety culture and behaviour, and how can software engineers help us to streamline operations and improve on safety? Embracing the work of others gives us the best chance to drive the industry forward.

The year of leadership is an opportunity not only to inspire even greater standards of process safety management, but to create a cross-sector culture that incorporates safety into existing systems and to demonstrate why the UK’s chemicals sector is something to be proud of. www.ras.ltd.uk Carolyn Nicholls carolyn.nicholls@ras.ltd.uk Jennifer Hill jennifer.hill@ras.ltd.uk

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Safe handling for chemicals RPC Promens is introducing its proven Varibox IBC into the UK and Ireland, offering the ideal solution for the safe and cost-effective handling of hazardous chemicals.

Roto moulded in polyethylene, the robust construction of the Varibox features an inner container enclosed within a strong outer cover, and incorporates a special discharge valve for easy dispensing of product with no need to remove a cap. To meet the specific needs of the UK and Irish markets, the standard 2-way secured entry pallet has been augmented with the availability of a 4-way secured entry version, allowing even greater flexibility in the movement of the container by a forklift or pallet jack without compromising on safety.

Equally important, the internal container can be reused for up to five years, providing a cost-effective means of transporting and storing chemicals while delivering an improved carbon footprint.

The strength and sturdiness of the Varibox ensures maximum protection so that product quality is maintained throughout the logistics chain. Integrated vents automatically open for safe dispensing and a pressure release system is available for products that cause a product build-up. Dip tubes with leak-free quick connectors are a further option for discharge from the top of the container.

The Varibox is available in a choice of colours and can incorporate company logos for effective branding. The easy-to-clean design prevents product contamination and

large recessed label areas provide plenty of room for all required product information. A built-in RFID tag enables the Varibox to be tracked at every stage of its journey. www.varibox-ibc.com

Elements can be solid and liquid Scientists have discovered a new state of physical matter in which atoms can exist as both solid and liquid simultaneously.

existence of the state – known as the chain-melted state.

Simulating how up to 20,000 potassium atoms behave under extreme conditions revealed that the structures formed represent the new, stable state of matter.

Until now, the atoms in physical material were understood to exist typically in one of three states – solid, liquid or gas.

Researchers have found, however, that some elements can, when subjected to extreme conditions, take on the properties of both solid and liquid states.

Applying pressure to the atoms leads to the formation of two interlinked solid lattice structures, the team says.

Chemical interactions between atoms in one lattice are strong, meaning they stay in a solid form when the structure is heated, while the other atoms melt into a liquid state.

Applying high pressures and temperatures to potassium – a simple metal – creates a state in which most of the element’s atoms form a solid lattice structure, the findings show. However, the structure also contains a second set of potassium atoms that are in a fluid arrangement.

Under the right conditions, over half a dozen elements – including sodium and bismuth – are thought to be capable of existing in the newly discovered state, researchers say.

Until now, it was unclear if the unusual structures represented a distinct state of matter, or existed as transition stages between two distinct states.

A team led by scientists from the University of Edinburgh used powerful computer simulations to study the

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The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was supported by the European Research Council and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The work was carried out in collaboration with scientists from Xi’an Jiantong University in China.

Dr Andreas Hermann, of the University of Edinburgh’s School of Physics and Astronomy, who led the study, said: “Potassium is one of the simplest metals we know, yet if you squeeze it, it forms very complicated structures. We have shown that this unusual but stable state is part solid and part liquid. Recreating this unusual state in other materials could have all kinds of applications.”

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The future of brand management in the chemical sector MAXIMISING BRAND VALUE

Jo Davies Managing Director, VIM Group

The chemical industry is experiencing an unprecedented level of change, with mergers, acquisitions, consolidation and globalisation all disrupting the sector. These factors have also put the role of brand and digital transformation firmly under the spotlight.

More than $100bn was spent on mergers and acquisitions last year, most notably in the Dow-DuPont merger. The industry as a whole is globalising on a rapid scale and the dominance of established companies is being evened out by increasingly sophisticated companies from emerging markets. In a marketplace that has become open to foreign competition on a huge scale, chemical companies must think and act globally to remain competitive. And as demand shifts, companies must reposition their assets and product portfolios.

In response to these changes, many chemical businesses are undertaking brand investment to better reflect their organisational goals and corporate vision. Beyond a memorable logo, good branding and brand implementation can increase the value of a company and make customer acquisition easier.

However, the role of brand marketing in the sector is not straight-forward. Stringent regulations and product diversity both complicate the matter, while companies must strike a balance between regional and global markets. It is also apparent that many chemical businesses lag behind other industries in terms of the knowledge and expertise applied when investing in brand.

When working with clients across the chemical, industrial and manufacturing sectors, I have been asked a few key questions: what is the future for brand in the chemical sector? And how can brand investment provide competitive advantage?

Research at VIM Group has shown that business performance improves when brand is taken as a strategic starting point. However, only a small percentage of organisations take a brand-first approach to strategy.

In addition, PwC has reported that 75% of chemical executives view cost-cutting as their primary activity to drive profitability, while just 9% want to strengthen digital – despite its huge potential to drive profitability.

Germany’s BASF, the world’s most valuable chemical brand, is a good example of brand and business strategy working in concert. BASF’s year-on-year growth of 11% from $7.4bn to $8.3bn follows the unveiling of a new brand strategy focused on organic growth, emphasis on Asian markets, strong corporate climate action and the launch of innovative, climate friendly production methods.

In consumer sectors, we see how brands spend millions on brand awareness campaigns. Although industrial businesses have not historically given their brand the same kind of commitment, we fully expect this to change.

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION Digital technology holds huge potential for sales and marketing within the chemical industry as tools like connected devices, machine learning and artificial intelligence all bring new ways to meet customer needs, gain data and embrace value-added sales. But many businesses in the chemical sector have been slow to react or have failed to combine their investment in digital technology with a suitable brand strategy.

We can already see how marketing is moving away from its outdated role as sales support towards the epicentre of transformational and strategic change. As enablers of digital transformation, marketing teams have an opportunity to take ownership of client relationships, management of intangible brand assets and greater influence on corporate strategy.

However, there are challenges to navigate within digital transformation. Firstly, companies must leverage large

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Secondly, larger businesses are being challenged by smaller, more dynamic competitors who have already built new digital technology into their business processes. For bigger businesses, adopting new tech to keep up can be expensive in the long run if mismanaged. Many firms have used mergers and acquisitions to remain competitive, but this presents the additional challenge of integrating multiple operating systems into a single system.

Finally, as in other sectors, the proliferation of new data streams can provide invaluable insights – but first businesses must establish practical tools to manage and analyse this data, while also developing their internal analysis capacity and identifying which data streams to prioritise.

BRAND ARCHITECTURE In a marketplace where customers are ready to switch brands if they can get the chemically equivalent product at a cheaper price, companies must fight hard to develop brand equity. Delivering quality products consistently, providing customer support and tailored advice are just some of the elements that mediate equity and reputation. But strategists should be aware that these are long-term commitments requiring significant investment.

Brand architectures are also changing in response to market forces. Increasingly, we find chemical businesses transitioning to the ‘branded house’ model – a shift away from the well-established, product-first ‘house of brands’ approach. This is happening because businesses are realising just how critical synergies actually are when it comes to marketing and communications. The branded house approach enables business units and individual products to share brand building campaigns, which is particularly helpful when the sector is increasingly commoditised and price-sensitive.

The branded house model also suits how businesses are strategically orientating towards specialist areas. In this sense, the branded house provides an efficient solution whereby brand investments at both a company and product level have a symbiotic effect.

TIPS TO SAVE MILLIONS

small brand change can have on all branded assets, from letterheads to vehicle liveries and digital footprint.

Whether it’s a refresh of a visual identity, a post-merger overhaul or a digital transformation project, brand guardians in the chemical sector can save millions by considering a few key points before proceeding.

1. Stay true to the brand story The strongest brands ‘promise and prove’: they make an enticing, relatable promise and prove it in every interaction with the target audience. This is as true for a high street retailer as it is for a chemical business.

It’s also important to remember that brand starts from within and requires attention from everybody within the organisation – not just the marketing team. Practical tech solutions such as employer branding strategies, e-learning and digital brand portals will make it much easier to ensure employees live and breathe the brand.

2. Re-define the brand organisation Effective brand organisation should be a continual process of improvement and investment – a life cycle rather than a one-off.

Ten years ago, many businesses believed that the key to a strong brand was the consistent application of a corporate identity across all channels. But as the pace of change accelerates and brand touch points proliferate, it’s more about having one coherent and convincing brand promise.

That means putting an end to the ‘corporate style police’ and the silo structure of brand management, while the concept of brand ownership also needs to evolve. Teams with a stake in brand management – IT, HR, Marketing and so on – must communicate and collaborate more effectively, whereby brand managers become more like community managers who aggregate input from a range of stakeholders.

3. Make brand performance measurable Many organisations are not clear about the exact value of their brand, how to measure its value or which analytics will best measure its performance. This must become a key consideration, not least because boardrooms require hard data to justify brand investment and will expect constant financial updates. Representing the value of the brand in financial terms will make it easier to secure that budget now and in the future.

To make the performance of brand investment measurable, a good brand dashboard that merges different data sets and provides real-time insight will be an invaluable tool.

If managed inefficiently, brand investment can be costly and counterproductive, negatively impacting customer relations and internal culture. In my experience, businesses tend to underestimate the broad impact that even a

“In a marketplace where customers are ready to switch brands if they can get the chemically equivalent product at a cheaper price, companies must fight hard to develop brand equity. Delivering quality products consistently, providing customer support and tailored advice are just some of the elements that mediate equity and reputation. But strategists should be aware that these are long-term commitments requiring significant investment.”

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REACH is not a destination; it is the life cycle journey of substances and their uses

Widely heard after the 31 May 2018 was the shouting of “Hooray, we made it!”, when the final registration deadline for phase-in substances was finally passed. Some companies thought that this is it: REACH done, over and out. Well, the registration of a substance is just one part of the whole story. Though registrations were, without doubt, a major part of REACH work from 2007 to 2018, this is not the only part.

Let us for a moment travel back to a time prior to the first registration deadline for substances in volumes of more than 1000 tonnes per year per legal entity. REACH was new; ECHA was new and industrial chemical management was more or less obsolete or in a transition period. In the beginning, guidance documents were not yet developed or published. Many terms and procedures were new for the industry as well as the authorities. Therefore, registration dossiers were submitted that had been generated to the best knowledge and capability of all stakeholders at that time.

Happy to have overcome the registration burden and having kept products on the market, registrations were considered to be fixed and settled.

Several years later it is rather obvious that these registration dossiers, some several years old now, might have been of a very high quality – indeed, “state of the art” - at the time they were prepared but fall short of today’s expectations of sound chemicals management.

The German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) has completed a REACH compliance project that started back in 2014. They reported that only 31% of the dossiers for substances at greater than 1000 tonnes per year and 44% of the dossiers for volumes between 100 and 1000 tonnes per year were considered to be compliant. For the rest of the dossiers, data were considered to be missing. However, one has to keep in mind that it is not possible to simply skip required data endpoints in registration dossiers and, hence, registrants deviated from standard data requirements towards the optional use of alternative data like read-across or QSAR1. The problem identified was that the justifications for the use of these alternative types of data were not considered to be sufficient when applying today’s standards.

Here we come full circle to what was mentioned above.

At the time the dossiers were prepared, everything was deemed to be fine.

On 21st February of this year, ECHA released a news article with the topic: “REACH compliance – an agency priority for 2019”. This tells the story about many registration dossiers not containing all required information and referred to the above mentioned BfR study about REACH compliance.

ECHA further stated that this result is also comparable to the results of ECHA’s own compliance checks.

On the other hand ECHA also tried to explain what happened and this is in accordance with the preparation of registration dossiers a couple of years ago. ECHA stated that REACH was built in a way such that industry does its job and ECHA checks the results. Wherever data is missing, industry is encouraged to avoid animal testing and to use alternative methods. Such alternative methods could not be developed at a sufficient pace and put industry in a problematic situation: they should (and wanted to) avoid animal testing but there were insufficient alternatives.

That left industry with the alternative data options already mentioned, like read-across. Since a lot of data was missing years ago, this option was used to a much higher degree than expected by ECHA. The pressure to use data waivers may however leave an uncertainty about the hazard and subsequently the risk of a chemical substance. Hence, there is no other way than to tackle such uncertainties.

A substance for which the registration dossier is considered to be incompliant according to today’s standards, does of course not necessarily pose a hazard or risk to man and/or the environment, but there are of course worries, because one simply does not know for sure.

Therefore, take Article 22 of the REACH regulation very seriously and keep your dossier up-to-date! Check the basic data about volumes and uses (also uses advised against): are they still accurate? Remove uses that are not active any more. Keep an eye on the scientific data: is there something new with regard to hazards to man &/or the environment?

Check your justifications for read-across or QSAR data. Do they sufficiently and reliably explain why you chose this approach?

Sometimes just a few additional sentences in a justification may change a dossier that is considered non-compliant into a well-received piece of work by the authorities.

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No-deal repercussions “No-deal would be catastrophic,” so said Dr Dani Loughran on a recent edition of Question Time, when speaking of the impact of leaving the European Union.

Dani’s words clearly resonated with the audience, viewers at home and followers on social media for she was deemed an “absolute star”. “Make her PM” declared one twitter-user.

So in this issue of the Chemical Industry Journal, we thought it was time to catch up with Dani and discuss her concerns in more detail.

For those not in the know, Dani is the Managing Director of Aston Chemicals in Aylesbury, an independent distributor of speciality chemicals, founded in 1990, which supplies raw materials to the European personal care industries.

“Over the past 30 years, we’ve grown from nothing to a medium-sized company employing 37 people, bringing products into the UK from around the world and selling them on in the UK and in Europe,” Dani explained.

“As well as our employees, we have a supply chain of UK companies with whom we work from freight partners to

marketing companies. However, the trade barriers being put up as a result of Brexit, the duplicated regulations and massively increased costs, mean we are now having to bypass the UK for half of our business. Affecting both our UK business and those businesses that are a part of our supply chain.”

“We are shipping products from all around the world and because of the uncertainty, we are planning much further ahead so that we don’t run out of supplies or let our customers down.

“Even if there are no trade tariffs after Brexit, the barriers, customs checks and extra paperwork will lead to delays.

Getting products backwards and forwards will become much more difficult and time consuming.

“The EU has frequently been criticised for creating red tape, but leaving the EU will create much more bureaucracy and extra work for no gain, especially given we will have to try to put in place so many new regulations and trading agreements.”

The implications for the chemical industry in setting up a UK version of REACH is an enormous concern for Dani.

“Once we leave the EU, creating a REACH system for the UK will be a huge undertaking, it’s not as simple as replicating what already exists.

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 From page 72 “It has been estimated that UK companies have spent over £600 million registering thousands of chemicals for REACH, and many of these are small and medium sized companies like us.”

Indeed, back in late 2018, the Alliance of Chemical Associations estimated that the cost to companies of submitting data for a UK-wide REACH system could amount to as much as £1bn.

“There will be chemical manufacturers who simply won’t want to do this solely for the UK market,” observes Dani.

“The size of the UK market will not justify the huge costs involved, so it may be that some products will become unavailable after Brexit.

“For some companies, it will simply be more straightforward to manufacture their products in the EU rather than the UK. There is a risk that the UK will become an expensive, unfavourable and difficult place in which to base manufacturing.”

The chemical industry is the second largest industry in the UK and 60% of the UK chemical industry’s exports go to the EU. In Dani’s words the EU is “our biggest trading partner”, so you can understand why a no-deal scenario could be construed as catastrophic, and any form of Brexit will be severely detrimental to many UK industries.

Dr Dani Loughran, Managing Director of Aston Chemicals in Aylesbury “Issues around intellectual property mean UK companies can’t simply access and duplicate the documents previously submitted for REACH registrations.

“Copying and pasting the REACH database into UK law isn’t possible, as MP Mary Creagh rightly pointed out. Yet it became quite clear during the debate in Parliament on 25th February, that the Minister concerned simply didn’t understand this.

“In addition, the budget set aside to establish a UK REACH database is wholly inadequate at just £13 million, given that the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) which currently manages REACH costs more than €100 million a year to run.

“The same chemicals are used in the UK as in Europe so there will be the same number of registrations to process.

21,000 chemicals have already been registered through REACH, 5,000 of which were registered by UK companies, and these will all have to be registered again with UK REACH. “How can the new UK system, on such a small budget hope to record as many chemicals as thoroughly? What is being proposed is deeply flawed and the British people do not want standards to slip or any increased risks to people or the environment.

“Companies all over the world have spent 11 years, billions of pounds and a huge amount of work preparing for REACH regulations. At Aston Chemicals, our team spent 11 years preparing for REACH and we were not alone in this.

The EU is after all the world’s biggest trading block and it is also close, and as economic models show, most countries do most of their trade with those countries geographically close by, due to factors such as easier, faster and cheaper transport between countries, aligned regulations and common standards and expectations.

Moreover, in the view of the vast majority of economists, EU membership has been overwhelmingly good for the British economy. Even Brexit-supporting economist Patrick Minford has said, “if we left the EU, it seems likely that we would mostly eliminate manufacturing”.

Dani clearly feels passionate about her company and the industry, but her concerns about Brexit go beyond her immediate commercial concerns, for she is worried about the broader impact on society too.

“I’m concerned about the decline in industry and the reduction in tax revenues and cuts to public services that are likely to come about as a result of Brexit. I feel the negative impact of any Brexit, and particularly “no-deal”, has been deliberately underplayed by hard-line brexiteers.

“There are issues with so many things we didn’t know would be the case back in June 2016 and questions that were never asked before the referendum. That is why I’d like to see a people’s vote, with a campaign based on verifiable facts.”

As Dani robustly put the case on Question Time: “We are all going to lose employment, taxes and our underfunded and overstretched public services are going to suffer.

“And when that happens it’s not going to be the Rees-Moggs and the Johnsons that are going to suffer, it’s going to be us – the working people of the UK.”

“For some companies, it will simply be more straightforward to manufacture their products in the EU rather than the UK. There is an element of risk that the UK will become an expensive, unfavourable and difficult place in which to base manufacturing.”

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Turkish KKDIK: misleading regulatory interpretation may cost you money and result in non-compliance EU REACH Regulation initiated a worldwide awareness for the regulatory environment and spread the urgency of global harmonization necessary for chemicals in all sectors of industry since 2007. Nobody really knew 12 years ago that it would trigger more and more chemicals regulations to be drafted and implemented in different countries. It should not be underestimated how many regulations came into force after 2007 and how the upcoming chemicals regulations are affected by EU REACH in one way or another.

Turkey is closely following EU Regulations due to the ongoing negotiations with the EU and within the Customs Union framework of harmonization of European Union acquis. All those recent global developments in the chemical regulations have pushed Turkey to accelerate the harmonization process in order to improve the conditions of trade in chemicals especially between the EU and Turkey via implementing EU REACH. The first Turkish Chemicals Inventory that reflects manufactured and imported substances placed on the market was created in 2011 and updated onwards.

That was an outcome of Turkish By-Law on Inventory and Control of Chemicals, mostly known as CICR (KEK in Turkish). Turkish CLP, the By-Law on Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Hazardous Substances abbreviated as SEA, was published in 2013 and remains in force since then. Turkish Ministry of Environment and Urbanisation (MoEU) is currently at the stage of aligning SEA with the EU CLP Regulation by a recent Draft Amendment. Stakeholders’ are invited to comment on the Draft Amendment and an assessment will be performed by the MoEU. Following SEA, Turkish REACH; KKDIK which repealed and replaced CICR, was published on 23rd of June 2017 and came into force 6 months later on 23rd December 2017. As a result, companies, who notified their substances to MoEU according to the obligations of CICR in the past, must now join pre-SIEFs of their substances to avoid any legal compliance gap if they continue placing substances on the Turkish market. Several companies have already joined the pre-SIEFs of their substances which means initial preparation for compliance and registration has already started.

An outstanding aspect of KKDIK under discussion is the obligation for Chemical Safety Report (CSR) to be prepared by an expert who must go through a tough training course of 64 hours and get certified through an examination.

Turkish CSR issue has led to many discussions in the regulatory environment for various reasons. Meanwhile, some consultant companies published posts on social media clearly stating that only Chemical Safety Assessors certified can submit KKDIK registrations and SEA notifications by giving Annex XVIII as reference. That’s a good example of an incorrect statement and a misleading intrepretation of the regulation. KKDIK, Annex XVIII sets out the rules of certification and procedures of becoming a certified body as well as qualifications of the candidates eligible to take the CSR training and enter the exam. It does not determine who can or must submit the registration dossier. Morover, registration dossier submission is made by the legal entity who manufactures or imports the substance to be registered, or the Only Representative (OR) appointed by the manufacturer.

It should not be underestimated that misinterpretation of the regulation and mistakes while determining your company obligations for any regulation, especially complex regulations such as REACH is highly important and can lead to wrong actions taken and money wasted for non-compliance. Misinterpretation of the regulation and distribution of misleading information in social media is a result of inexperienced consultants popping up on the Turkish market and grappling the new business created

by KKDIK for cheap marketing purposes. Insufficient understanding of the regulatory language and analytical gaps may be the other reason for such incorrect guidance given by such consultants appearing on the Turkish regulatory market.

Another critical misguidance given to the global chemicals industry is about the certification principle and KKDIK registrations in Turkey. There is a perception created intentionally that the Chemical Safety Assessor training bodies certified by the Ministry in Turkey are the only qualified to register for KKDIK in Turkey. That again contradicts with the fact that manufacturers, importers located in Turkey and local OR appointed by the nonTurkish companies will register the substances using their MoEU Chemicals Registration System (KKS) accounts which are created using legal entity information. It is the company itself that submits the registration to the MoEU, not a certified person.

This should bring to mind that if companies placing chemicals on the Turkish market are planning to work with a local OR to fulfill this tricky piece of compliance work, then the choice has to be made very carefully. The OR role and definition (KKDIK - Article 9) in the regulation is identical with the EU REACH Regulation (Article 8). RGS recommends companies to take a meticulous decision when appointing their OR since there are several newly established local consultancy companies with no EU REACH experince at all, planning to give undervalued and “irresponsible” OR services. The KKDIK obligation resulting with Chemical Safety Reports (CSR) to be prepared and signed by a certified expert triggers the necessity that your local OR must have an experienced and qualified team of experts who can help your company to comply without any hassle.

RGS celebrates 11 years of EU Chemicals Regulatory Compliance servicing with several hundreds of clients all over the world. Do not hesitate to contact RGS, if you need compliance with Turkish Chemicals Laws or more details on our services and the status of your substances.

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£7.2m investment British Salt has unveiled a series of ground-breaking projects in its 50th anniversary year, including a £7.2m investment in a new, best-in-class energy efficient boiler plant at its Cheshire-based Middlewich site, designed to generate heat and electricity for the company’s 24-hour production process.

The new British Salt boiler plant represents the largest single investment in the company since its inception. Scheduled to become operational in March 2020 it will be key to the success of a secure energy supply for British Salt.

Replacing the existing boilers installed back in 1969 when HRH Prince Philip officially opened the Middlewich site, the two new high-performance natural gas boilers will be to state of the art design to deliver the highest possible energy efficiency as well as meet the most stringent environmental standards. The new boilers will be housed in a purposedesigned building.

The major boiler plant project brings parent company Tata Chemicals Europe’s total investment in British Salt to £25m since 2015. It comes hot on the heels of a series of highprofile investments carried out throughout 2018 at British Salt to ensure that the company offers a comprehensive portfolio of 21st century-relevant high purity salt products for the long term.

Projects delivered in 2018 included the commissioning of British Salt’s first new brine borehole in over 5 years, at its Warmingham brine fields and the replacement of one of British Salt’s 37 tonne evaporation plant heat exchanger that’s key to the plant’s six-stage evaporation process.

Replacement of the heat exchangers is carried out every 30 years or so and it is a major and complex project.

Transforming the speed and quality of its packing operations, British Salt installed a new state-of-the-art high-speed pure dried vacuum (PDV) pack line in 2018.

Alongside this, it also upgraded the packing facilities for its water treatment products.

The company has recently completed the fourth year in a five-year £5m investment programme designed to upgrade its brine purification plant, which plays a crucial role in ensuring that the salt is of the highest quality.

Commenting on the company’s multi- faceted investment programme Ladan Iravanian, General Manager, Salt & Sodium Bicarbonate at Tata Chemicals Europe, observed:

“Our 50th anniversary year heralds a major milestone in our future-proofing plant investment initiative. Undoubtedly 2018 was an exceptionally busy year for our business, as we continued to invest millions of pounds in our facilities to ensure that we’re in great shape to deliver for our customers over the next fifty years and beyond. However, 2019 will see further, unprecedented high-profile investment in the site and its people.

“Our Cheshire salt reserves will last for the next 300 years – so we have a strong resource base upon which to build a sustainable future. Looking ahead to the future at British Salt, we’ve also made great strides in terms of new product development. We’ve continued to innovate and meet the demands of the market by introducing new products, such as: High Purity Technical Salt: aimed at several high-end technical applications such as textile production; De-icing Salt: produced by compacting our PDV salt to form granules and Tata Salt: one of the world’s most recognised brands of consumer salt. Our salt is also fortified with iodine, an essential nutrient which plays an important part of everyday wellbeing.

“The next phase of the British Salt pack line investment is scheduled for completion before the end of our golden anniversary year, along with the implementation of the final phase of the brine purification plant renewal. This unprecedented level of investment demonstrates Tata Chemicals’ commitment to the British Salt business in order to deliver excellence throughout all areas of its manufacturing processes and to provide an unparalleled portfolio of diverse products.”

British Salt’s product range – manufactured at Middlewich has many varied applications, ranging from its use as a vital ingredient in all types of food, as a critical chemical in water treatment and purification and as an essential nutrient in animal feed, to name just three!

Over the course of 2019 British Salt will be marking its half century milestone with a series of exciting events.

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£7 Billion UK fragrance industry The Fragrance Foundation, a non-profit organisation setting standards for the fragrance industry in the UK, has released the first-ever independent report to quantify the industry’s contribution to the UK economy. The key findings from the report, commissioned from Oxford Economics, show that in 2018 the UK fragrance industry is estimated to: have supported a £7.1 billion gross value added contribution to UK GDP have supported 126,700 people in employment stimulated £2.1 billion in tax revenues for the UK Exchequer accounted for £7.5 billion in consumer spending.

Commenting on today’s publication, Linda Key Jackson, CEO of The Fragrance Foundation, said: “The economic contribution of the UK fragrance industry in sectors including farming, manufacturing, wholesale, marketing, finance and retail is above the expectations of most people in the UK. These are big numbers which are significant to GDP, sustained employment and tax receipts for UK plc. Today’s study is proof of how important the fragrance industry is to the UK and what an exciting future could lie ahead if the right resources are available.

“Achieving the industry’s potential in the UK requires the support of government, educators, career advisors and parents but together we can to raise awareness

of the many and diverse careers in the fragrance industry which are open to young people in the UK today. Getting this right will ultimately provide UK companies across the fragrance industry with access to the skills they need to expand. It will also provide stimulating and rewarding jobs for individuals from diverse backgrounds who will see fragrance as a destination industry where aspiration is embraced on many fronts.”

Andrew Logan of Oxford Economics added: “The fragrance industry has a large positive economic footprint in the UK and must be recognised as a valuable asset for the UK economy. This impact is centred around the wholesale and retail of fragrance products. However, there is also a notable manufacturing footprint, with additional impacts in sectors across the economy driven by the supply chain spending and consumer activity that the industry’s payment of wages creates.”

The Oxford Economics report is the first comprehensive independent assessment of the fragrance industry’s contribution to the UK economy. The report includes an economic impact assessment of the direct impact of the industry’s employment of 56,640 people and associated GDP contribution; the indirect impact of activity and employment stimulated along the industry’s supply chain from its procurement of goods and services; and finally the induced impact from the wider benefits to the UK economy which arise from the salaries and spending of those employed.

The full Oxford Economics report entitled ‘The Economic Impact of the Fragrance Industry’ can be found at www.fragrancefoundation.org.uk/news and www.oxfordeconomics.com

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