Journal of Business Chemistry June 2016

Nowadays, the chemical industry faces a variety of challenges coming along with current and future developments and the need to satisfy the associated changing demands of different stakeholder groups. Since companies only have limited possibilities to provide all required abilities and capacities by themselves, pursuing cooperative exchange with stakeholders evolves to be a key competence. […]

Abstract The processes in the chemical industry are highly efficient and have been optimized and scaled up over many years. In short, the chemical sector is a mature industry. This mature industry has a highly diversified portfolio of products and raw materials. Maximum efficiency and huge volumes, as well as capital-intensive installations through to integrated […]

Abstract Product innovation will continue to play a strategic role for companies producing high-quality, functional products for customers in the process industries. In the future, creating improved or radically new products will necessitate not only the development of product concepts resting more on an applied research knowledge base but also collaboration with customers. LKAB is […]

Abstract The article aims at giving basic data and interpretations on the chemical logistics sector in Germany. The findings are based on a combination of primary research and secondary data in the field of logistics service providers, logistics agglomerations and logistics employment. Logistics service providers that are specialized in services for the chemical industry are […]