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| CHEMICAL INDUSTRY | CHEMICAL JOURNAL INDUSTRY SUMMER JOURNAL 2018 |
Peter Newport
Carolyn Nicholls
Chief Executive of the Chemical Business Association (CBA)
Operations Director of RAS Ltd
CBA is a not-for-profit business organisation representing the independent chemical supply chain in the UK. Its member companies distribute, pack, and blend over four million tonnes of chemicals each year with a market value of almost three billion euros.
A director of RAS Limited, Carolyn leads a team of risk and hazard management consultants and has been instrumental in creating the company’s assessment methodologies. Carolyn has experience of working with a large number of UK COMAH sites to develop safety reports and provide support in all aspects of risk management.
Peter is a key industry advocate to governmental and regulatory authorities in the UK and Europe. He is also a board member and current Treasurer of the European Association for Chemical Distributors (Fecc) and a board member of the International Chemical Trade Association (ICTA).
Dr Sarah Hickingbottom
Dr Yaprak Küçükvar
Bio-based Chemicals Business Consultant and Advocate
Director of the Istanbul office of REACH Global Services
A PhD chemist, Sarah spent over 15 years advising the global chemicals industry on bio-based chemicals and fuels, including markets, feedstocks, economics, policy, innovation, start-ups and scale-up. In 2018 she was appointed as BioVale’s CEO. BioVale is Yorkshire and the Humber’s Circular Bioeconomy Innovation Cluster.
Yaprak Yüzak Küçükvar has been managing REACH Global Services (RGS) Turkey Office in coordination with head office in Belgium since 2008. With over 15 consecutive years in regulatory compliance, 14 of which focused on chemicals management policies in the EU and Turkey, she has in-depth knowledge of EU REACH, Cosmetics Regulation and Turkish chemicals legislation.
Sarah spearheaded the drive to include the bioeconomy in local economic strategy and the need to invest in Yorkshire’s entrepreneurial ecosystems to support innovation and manufacturing scale-up. As 2020 ended, funding shortfalls led to Sarah’s role being removed and she now welcomes new irons in the fire for 2021.
She still leads a team of consultants, working with a wide range of clients from different sectors and also coordinates on a regional basis RGS HQ’s operations in the EU, Turkey and other regions such as Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan.
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