World chemical sales in 2011 are valued at € 2,744 billion, an increase of 95 % in value terms compared with 2001

World Chemical Sales, Imports, and Exports 2011 Data

Wonderlab Comic – Waste Disposal
What to do with that left-over reaction mixture – Gin-Jo learns the hard way

Discuss Classification and Labelling of Substances
ECHA launches web-based discussion forum for C&L notifiers and REACH registrants of the same substance

Levels of Mercury in the Air Underestimated
Levels of reactive mercury forms in the air found to be higher than previously reported in the literature

Chemistry in Sweden – A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
Christina Moberg, KTH, Sweden, looks at whether the current state of chemistry in Sweden lives up to its prestigious past

Opening Doors in TB Drug Discovery
Open-source compound library at GSK identifies 177 small-molecule leads for anti-tuberculois (TB) research

Carbon Capture Project Launched
Air Products’ Phase One Carbon Capture Project Onstream in Texas

BASF Expands Omega-3-Business to Norway
BASF completes acquisition of Pronova BioPharma, Lysaker, Norway

Terminology for Coordination Polymers and MOFs
IUPAC's task group opens public review for new definition of terminology for Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOF) and Porous Coordination Polymers (CPs)

BASF's Plant Biotechnology
BASF to expand its research into fungal resistance in corn and discontinue Nutritionally Enhanced Corn and European potato projects