ETHANOL A Swedish initiative to improve understanding of storage tank fires involving ethanol has received and international welcome but the backers need to attract more stakeholders if it is to be able to move forward to a practical conclusion
SAFETY Warehouse operators handling dangerous goods in Europe need to understand and apply the provisions of the Seveso Directive. Having acquired capacity in the UK, Norbert Dentressangle is now coming to grips with the domestic version, COMAH
ASSOCIATION Economic volatility, increasing globalisation and mushrooming regulations are just some of the challenges with which European chemical distributors have to contend.
AUTOMATION Gary Lacy, engineering director at Simon Storage Ltd, explains how the company is continuing to invest in process safety and automation to ensure regulatory compliance
MANUFACTURING As well as gearing up to start production of plastics packagings in Turkey, Germany's Mauser has also further expanded its business in the US through the acquisition of Varicon Solutions
PENALTIES Failing to comply with hazmat storage regulations can be a costly business, as two US chemical distributors found out when the US EPA recently came a-knocking
STRUCTURE Germany's Lehnkering has announced a number of key staff and divisional changes in the wake of its acquisition by South Africa’s Imperial Group
TRAINING As a sponsor company to a new University Technical College, the economic downturn hasn’t prevented industrial valve manufacturer Fort Vale from expanding its apprenticeship scheme
JAPAN The devastating earthquake and tsunami of March 2011 caused death and destruction on a massive scale in north-east Japan. David Hayes reports on how the petrochemical industry and its storage terminal partners are recovering
