GLG News by Specialty Chemical Experts

The management of GM, Ford, and Chrysler are individually and collectively the worst set of managers that any American owned and operated heavy industry has ever had. Until this group of managers is gone there is no hope for GM, Ford, or Chrysler. There is no value in lending or subsidizing this...

The Chevrolet Volt, if it is brought to market too early, will fail both in its intended use and in its operation. 

Ranbaxy can use these citations to create an opportunity if they use this incident to improve their operations and do more.They could use improve their formulation technology to move away from batch to continuous formulations. Would they avail this bump to enhance the manufactuirng technology?

There are two non-silicon chemistries now being hyped as the bases for thin-film solar cells: 1. Cadmium telluride, and 2. Copper Indium Gallium Selenide Neither is practical at all.

Mergers and aquisitions in the global chemicals market continue to increase in size and scope. Will the BASF bid for CIBA take this to a new level of 'Mega' companies that dominate the market? Steve Burgess from UK based Rowant Consultancy rsies issues that many are thinking about in these turbulent...

The future of the personal automobile is in the gasoline or kerosene(diesel) burning internal combustion engine. Future cars will be small, lightweight, and get 50 MPG and more. The Toyota prius hybrid already gets 50 MPG right off the showroom floor. This is why Toyota is increasing the production...

Is a rare earth mining boomlet under way?

The author of the article may be confusing of the new paper and paperboard mills in China that will utilize recycled waste paper with mills making virgin pulp from trees rather than secondary fiber waste paper. It is highly doubtful that China has the forest resources to support supply of 19+ million...

With the skyrocketing cost for developing new processes more and more semiconductor companies are joining the IBM alliance the pre competitive process is getting less and less. NEC is just the last one from a parade of the companies that already joined the alliance. Looks like we are having only...

The Business Week article “Outsourcing the Drug Industry” gives the impression that screening of the potential drugs in India or China would ultimately reduce the cost of drugs for the patients. This would be an incorrect conclusion. Drug costs can only be lowered if the patent-centric model (limited ...