Ashland completes second expansion of bioresorbable polymers manufacturing and R&D lab in Ireland

Planned ribbon cutting event demonstrates company commitment to investment in innovation platforms and local presence

15-Aug-2024 - Ashland has completed the second expansion of its pharmaceutical injectables manufacturing and R&D lab at the National Science Park in Mullingar, Ireland and will celebrate the moment with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on August 22, 2024. This enhancement, completed as scheduled, significantly ...

OQEMA and BASF collaborate on amines in the UK and Ireland

04-Mar-2024 - BASF has strengthened its partnership with OQEMA with regard to BASF’s standard amines portfolio excluding ethanolamines in the UK and Ireland, effective January 1, 2024. The companies, which have enjoyed a productive partnership in Germany and Eastern Europe for over two decades, will now join ...

Scientists create 3D-printed, microscopic gas sensors - painters’ pallets without even a hint of pigment

"The tiny responsive arrays, which are smaller than a freckle, can be used to tell us an enormous amount about the chemistry of their environment”

22-Sep-2021 - Scientists from Trinity College Dublin and AMBER, the SFI Research Centre for Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research, have discovered a way to fabricate tiny colour-changing gas sensors using new materials and a high-resolution form of 3D printing. The sensors – responsive, printed, ...

Squeezing low-cost electricity from sustainable biomaterial

05-Dec-2017 - Mobile phone speakers and motion detectors in cars and video games may soon be powered by electricity generated from low cost and sustainable biomaterials, according to research carried out at University of Limerick (UL), Ireland. Scientists at UL's Bernal Institute have discovered that the ...

Detecting Mercury with Gold

Individual gold nanorods could be used to develop smaller, portable mercury sensors

09-Mar-2017 - Mercury is harmful even in small amounts. Detecting it currently requires expensive equipment. Researchers are working on a faster and cheaper alternative: a portable sensor that can perform a rapid analysis in the field. The key is finding something small and accurate enough to do the job.For ...

'Goldilocks material' could change spintronics

26-Mar-2015 - Attempting to develop a novel type of permanent magnet, a team of researchers at Trinity College in Dublin has discovered a new class of magnetic materials based on Mn-Ga alloys.Described as a zero-moment half metal in Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing, the new Mn2RuxGa magnetic alloy ...

Research and Markets: Global chemical industry 2013 - new challenges being created for an already highly regulated industry

12-Feb-2013 - Research and Markets has announced the addition of the"Global Chemical Industry" report to their offering. The global chemical industry has historically being concentrated in three world regions consisting primarily of the North American region, Western Europe and Japan. The European Community ...

Research and Markets: Chemical Wholesaling in the US

Downstream markets will aid demand, but high costs will limit growth

11-Feb-2013 - Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Chemical Wholesaling in the US" report to their offering: Chemical balance: Downstream markets will aid demand, but high costs will limit growth. Fundamental elements: As a key intermediary within the supply chain, the Chemical Wholesaling ...

Colonial Chemical Announces Expansion of Territories with Brenntag UK & Ireland

07-Jun-2011 - Colonial Chemical, Inc. announced that Brenntag N.V. is now their sole distributor for chemical products in U.K. and Ireland. This agreement expands their representation with Colonial Chemical, which presently includes Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.“We value the profitable association ...

Almac and University College Cork announce launch of academic/industrial collaboration in the field of solid state chemistry

17-May-2010 - University College Cork and Almac announced the official launch of an academic/industrial collaboration in the field of solid state chemistry. The partnership, which is principally funded by the Science Foundation Ireland, is focussed upon applying innovative new technologies to elucidate 3D ...