Each issue of Shell Chemicals Magazine offers an in-depth look at developments across the worldwide Shell Chemicals businesses.
To read more, select a link to a PDF version of any article from the list below.
Shell Chemicals Magazine: Featured articles
Service status
Sven Royall, Shell Chemicals Limited Vice President Customer Services and Intermediates, discusses the growing importance of Asia's markets and Shell's chemicals investments in the region, and highlights other key topics for customers including volatile prices and new European legislation.
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Best practice for GMP IPA¹
The implementation of a Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) quality system at Pernis in The Netherlands has made European GMP compliant isopropyl alcohol available to the pharmaceutical, food and cosmetics industries.
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Paying the price
Chemical derivative markets have been impacted by high, volatile prices in recent years as a direct result of market forces driven by the unprecedented increases in both feedstock and energy costs.
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Material world
An enterprise account management approach to customer relationships has helped to establish global, strategic alignment with Bayer MaterialScience.
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Pure and simple solutions
A combination of technical and environmental performance attributes has increased demand for propylene oxide glycol ethers, both for coatings applications and emerging uses in the electronics sector.
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Investment on a MEGa scale
The construction of integrated worldscale ethylene and mono-ethylene glycol plants in Singapore is designed to strengthen Shell’s position in Asia’s growing chemicals markets.
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Within REACH
The EU's new chemical legislation is a step closer and while the details of its implementation are still to be finalised, it is likely to have a significant impact on suppliers, producers and consumers of more than 30,000 chemicals.
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Rising to the challenge
Greg Lewin, President of Shell Global Solutions International, shares a vision for how chemical engineering can rise to the challenge of delivering solutions to some of society's greatest challenges.
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