Sentences with phrase «at chemical companies»

Back then, as a lowly lab tech at a chemical company, Arnold could never get hold of the precursor, a prohibitively expensive synthetic progestogen known as levonorgestrel, the active ingredient in the morning - after pill.

(photo courtesy Robert Neal) Robert Neal, a systems engineer at a chemical company in West Valley City, in his Nick Fury cosplay.

(photo courtesy Robert Neal) Robert Neal, a systems engineer at a chemical company in West Valley City, in his Nick Fury cosp...

Purcell joins XDD with extensive legal industry experience, starting at the chemical company Arkema, where as a paralegal she also managed Arkema's in - house document review teams.

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New rules set to be in place by August 30, 2018 will require companies to name at least one risky chemical in any product that comes with a cancer warning.

FRANKFURT, May 1 - The incoming boss of BASF has thrown his weight behind the chemical titan's contentious strategy of keeping divergent businesses folded into one company, at a time when its major rivals such as DowDuPont are breaking themselves up.

FRANKFURT, May 1 (Reuters)- The incoming boss of BASF has thrown his weight behind the chemical titan's contentious strategy of keeping divergent businesses folded into one company, at a time when its major rivals such as DowDuPont are breaking themselves up.

On the same day DowDuPont announced that longtime Dow Chemical leader Andrew Liveris would step down as executive chairman by the end of the month after a 14 - year tenure at the 121 - year - old company.

This week's announcement of the merger of America's two leading chemical companies, DuPont (DD) and Dow (DOW), could spell doom for DuPont's central research labs and presages further research cuts at Dow as well.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP)-- Specialty chemicals company Albemarle is buying counterpart Rockwood Holdings Inc. in a cash - and - stock deal valued at about $ 6.2 billion.

FRANKFURT The incoming boss of BASF has thrown his weight behind the chemical titan's contentious strategy of keeping divergent businesses folded into one company, at a time when its major rivals such as DowDuPont are breaking themselves up.

63 - year - old Liveris spent more than forty years at Dow Chemical - more than a decade of those as CEO - before taking over as executive chairman at the joint company.

Saying the chemical is too much of a risk, the mayors of Duluth and Superior, Wis., are calling on Husky Energy to stop using hydrogen fluoride at the company's Superior refinery following last week's explosion and fire.

Dutch chemical company DSM had at one time almost abandoned Dyneema as a commercial product.

Empire Life Investments Inc. now owns 30,312 shares of the specialty chemicals company's stock valued at $ 4,626,000 after buying an additional 486 shares in the last quarter.

Covington Capital Management now owns 34,529 shares of the specialty chemicals company's stock valued at $ 5,270,000 after buying an additional 515 shares in the last quarter.

Public Employees Retirement Association of Colorado now owns 14,976 shares of the specialty chemicals company's stock valued at $ 2,285,000 after buying an additional 503 shares in the last quarter.

ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods announced on Monday at the CERAWeek conference in Houston TX that the company will be making further investments in U.S. shale oil and gas, laying out a $ 20 billion «Growing the Gulf» initiative that seeks to invest in chemical, refining, lubricant and LNG projects along the Texas and Louisiana coast.

In 1880 Lammot du Pont built the Repauno Chemical Company, a dynamite plant located across the Delaware River from Wilmington at Gibbstown, N.J. Ten years later, DuPont opened a smokeless powder plant at Carney's Point, also on the New Jersey side of the river.

Only a very small number of companies have set long - term (2030 or later) targets which can be considered to be in line with a sectoral 2 °C pathway.282 An analysis of 70 of the world's largest publicly listed corporate emitters, across the aluminium, cement, chemicals and electric utilities sectors, found that 21 had targets up to 2020 which could be considered consistent with a 2 °C sectoral pathway, but only 7 had targets to 2030 or later.283 Twenty others had non-2 °C or «irrelevant» targets, and the rest had none at all.

At one of the plants we visited in India, someone, perhaps it was even the CEO himself, mentioned that in addition to owning the chemical company, he also owned a cashew plantation.

Adzick started her career in foodservice at PepsiCo, but prior to that, she worked at Occidental Chemical Company, Rhone - Poulenc and DuPont de Nemours, Inc..

In developing my products, I consulted with a chemist friend of mine who works at a cosmetic chemical company.

In addition to his background with CMA, he also held various roles at Puritan / Churchill Chemical Company where his foodservice career began in 1983.

The article does some stern fingerpointing at everyone, from chemical companies to the government and the media for suppressing information about the toxicity of dioxin.

Choose an obstetrician or health care provider Interview potential doctors Contact health insurance company about coverage Start and pregnancy and birth budget Discuss financial effects of pregnancy and baby with partner Stop smoking Stop drinking Stop using street drugs Talk to your physician about any prescription medications Drink at least 8 glasses of water every day Visit the doctor at least once per month or every 4 weeks Do not dye or perm hair Stop drinking coffee and other caffeinated beverages Exercise daily Start taking prenatal vitamins Eat foods rich in folic acid Eat iron rich foods Increase daily intake of whole grains, fruits and vegetables Nap as much as possible as fatigue is common Eat fish with low levels of mercury no more than 2 days per week Do not eat undercooked meats Do not eat unpasteurized dairy producs Do not eat cold cut deli meats Allow someone else to clean out the kitty litter, if applicable Limit exposure to chemicals Try to limit stress and tension Complete all prenatal tests — HIV, Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Anemia, Blood Typing, Sickle Cell Anemia, Urine Screening and Rubella.

Naples had a twenty - year career on Wall Street, serving at HSBC, Merrill Lynch, and Chemical Bank, and in her family's insurance company in Buffalo, before running for office.

A Delaware - based chemical company, Chemours, will stop production at its plant on Buffalo Avenue in the city by the end of next year.

Poughkeepsie... Dutchess County Emergency Response's Hazardous Materials Team has been dispatched to Columbia County to provide mutual aid to the Ghent Fire Department as it battles a massive chemical fire at the TCI of New York recycling company in Ghent.

When I graduated with my doctorate in 1974, the standard chemical engineering job was to work at an oil company.

While Berkland was working on his Ph.D. in chemical and biological engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, faculty members there started a company that incorporated Berkland's research on fabricating micro - and nanostructures from biodegradable polymers.

Under the current system, chemical companies perform safety tests or farm them out to contractors, then submit data for review at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other agencies.

Described here at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society, the company's vaccine, called RotaShield, is expected to be on the market by the middle of next year.

LINDA FISHER is the chief sustainability officer at DuPont, one of America's oldest chemical companies and the source of modern marvels such as neoprene, Teflon, and Lycra.

One Belgian company, Exxon Chemical, has awarded the dogs a prize for their part in halving the cost of detecting leaks at its plants.

Beckmann has turned a modest amount of state economic - development funding — the institute has received about $ 1.6 million a year in state support since its inception in 2007 — into a handful of achievements, including $ 26 million in additional funding with affiliated researchers at Oregon universities and companies and a laboratory capable of screening more than 10,000 chemicals a day for druglike activity.

«We have an obligation to the world to deliver clean, reliable, low - cost energy that is hopefully low carbon, too,» adds chemical engineer David Rogers, general manager for climate change at Chevron, a California - based oil company that did not join efforts to suspend California's climate change initiative.

She is leading a group of 70 women who say they were exposed to chemicals at the company's plant in Greenock.

The company has two research centres in the UK, one at Port Sunlight (with a specialisation in physical sciences and advanced manufacturing) and the other at Edgewater (physical sciences, chemical engineering, and the biochemistry and physiology of skin).

«Right now, companies that make chairs or cars or lipstick don't know which of the chemicals they incorporate into their products are safe,» says Michael Wilson, an environmental health scientist at the University of California, Berkeley.

Several years ago, for example, William Banholzer, at the time the chief technology officer and executive vice president of Dow Chemical Company — a firm that regularly hires Ph.D. scientists — told the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, «I don't think I need to hire postdocs.»

William Banholzer, then technology chief at Dow Chemical, says in industry, «If you can't do the work safely, you can't do it in our company....

«Most of the other techniques used in the petroleum field provide the «average» values of sample parameters,» said study author Wei - Shan Chiang, a postdoctoral researcher in chemical and biomolecular engineering at UD who does work onsite at NIST Center for Neutron Research and at Aramco Services Company.

The statement came one day after ScienceInsider reported that New York Medical College (NYMC) in Valhalla, New York, would examine a researcher who, according to internal documents released last week by a federal court in California, put his name on a 2000 paper partially ghostwritten by employees at Monsanto, the giant agricultural chemicals company based in St. Louis, Missouri.

Zak Page, Craig Hawker and colleagues at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Dow Chemical Company sought to overcome this barrier by adopting a bottom - up approach for patterning emissive polymers.

Officials at three major chemical companies published an open letter citing lax university safety standards that require companies to provide new hires arriving from campuses «weeks of remedial safety training before [they] are allowed to work in their labs.»

O'Brien and his colleagues at the University of Sydney and Matec Applied Sciences, a company based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, neatly sidestepped these limitations by basing their instrument, called an acoustosizer, on a phenomenon discovered in the mid-1980s by David Cannon, a chemical engineer at Matec.

More members from «the regulated community» — chemical and energy companies and manufacturers — could prevent the committees from spotting problems such as the fracking report, says Robert Richardson, an ecological economist at Michigan State University who was one of the BOSC members let go.

And so in reporting I tried to look at that, and clearly the EPA employees themselves --[in] a letter from their union to the EPA administrator, Steven Johnson, they charged that the EPA is foot - dragging and it is much, much too closely allied with the chemical companies and the makers and users of these pesticides.

Meanwhile, chemists, engineers and materials scientists at technology company Johnson Matthey are taking inspiration from catalysts in car engines to improve the activity and durability of such chemicals.