The Chemistry Innovation KTN supports the TSB funding call “Sustainable Manufacturing for Process Industry” . The competition for feasibility and collaborative R&D funding opens on 27 February. Enquiries to be made to Technology Strategy Board (competitions@innovateuk.org) or to CIKTN (janet.sanger@ciktn.co.uk) for advice on the call. There will be a parntering event in London during week commencing 27 [...]
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The Chemical Industries Association, with the support of UKTI, are organising UK pavillions at the following Chemspec on fine and speciality chemicals: Chemspec India - Mumbai 26-27 April 2012 http://www.chemspecevents.com/india/ For further information please contact Neil Harvey, Head of International Trade at the [...] UKTI announced the appointment by PA Consulting of Bryan Davies (a former Chairman of SORIS) to advise UKTI on a national export promotion blueprint for the chemicals sector. Bryan is already a member of the CIA’s International Business Promotion Network and the CIA will support Bryan in his new part-time role. For [...] UKTI is going to showcase the UK’s engineering and chemicals expertise and capability linked to sports in the next calendar year and beyond. One method is by using short examples where UK engineering and chemicals companies/organisations are supplying into sports, sports equipment, sports infrastructure (e.g. materials or instrumentation used in measurement and [...] The European Commission is carrying out its own review of the REACH Regulations. and their impact on innovation. Contributed comments are invited [...] Experience from 2010 registrants showed that you cannot start preparing for a registration deadline early enough and 2013 is no exception. However, the only public mechanism for assessing the collective progress being made towards the next deadline is when a Lead Registrant has been nominated and when a substance has been [...] In June 2011 ECHA published its report on the operation of REACH and CLP. It contains a number of lessons and recommendations, notably that: severe non-compliance should be punished, 58% of companies identified themselves as SMEs (in a 2010 study), incomplete and incorrect dossiers are very common, unnecessary animal testing is not being commissioned, SIEFs are not [...] In future Safety Data Sheets must be “provided” – not merely “made available”. A UK company offers a service to make MSDS available to your customers. Under certain conditions there is a free service for low volume MSDS. Fuller details [...] CEFIC has made its Responsible Care Toolkit for SMEs available on its website at www.cefic.org/RC-Tools-SMEs Elements include integrate SHE management, security, occupational health and safety, plant and process safety, transport and logistics, environment, energy efficiency, chemicals regulation and [...] The CIA is organising a pavilion at this major international exhibition and can offer fully furnished exhibition space to member companies at £6000 + VAT per unit. This is less than half the minimum price of an organisers shell scheme booth. The usual UKTI qualifying terms and conditions do not apply and [...] |
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