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How public support today can accelerate the sustainable, bio-based supply chains of tomorrow

For the European Union to meet the climate and biodiversity targets set out in the European Green Deal, it needs bold action. Sustainable, renewable and circular innovations need to be brought to market quickly. The EU is delivering this kind of boldness with its public private partnerships (PPPs), the Bio-based Industries and Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertakings (BBI JU and CBE JU), which are supporting, for example, the commercialisation of CyreneTM – Circa Group’s novel, non-toxic and high performing solvent derived in two steps from waste cellulosic biomass.

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By Dr Sarah Hickingbottom

General Manager for New Product Development and Stakeholder Relations, Circa Group

As detailed in CIJ’s March issue1, the EU has a multilayered approach to building renewable, sustainable supply chains. The CBE JU is one critical component of this strategy which is to effectively ‘jump-start’ the commercialisation investment engine needed to build a new generation of ‘future-proofed’ chemical plants. The assumption is that once the engine is switched on and running, the public sector can retreat and let industry drive further investment.

The private arm of the CBE JU PPP, and its predecessor the BBI JU, is represented by the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC) with members from industry, SMEs, clusters and universities. The €3.7 billion BBI JU was part of Horizon 2020 with the CBE JU playing a comparable role within the Horizon Europe framework (with the UK as an Associate country). Between 2014-2020, the BBI JU funded in excess of 120 projects and between 2021-2027 and the CBE JU intends to do the same.

It’s a major, long-term undertaking driven by a circular bioeconomy vision – first conceived a decade ago with the BBI JU – focused on 2050. A vision which the EU recognises we cannot shy away from if we are to address the resource, climate and sustainability overshoots we live with today. The chemical industry plays a key role in investing in ‘green’ innovation and, whilst industry has been investing and creating change, the impact has not been large enough or fast enough. To catalyse bioeconomy innovation, in 2014 the BBI JU (and, in 2021, the CBE JU) set about mobilising a fragmented sector, using public money to attract private investment, cementing strong industry collaborations

with science and generating an innovation pipeline which – where commercially viable – will be supported as Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) increase from lab to commercial scale.

The PPPs are de-risking investment for an emerging sector where traditional financing is failing to prove sufficient, particularly for capital-intensive demonstration-scale and commercial-scale flagship projects. The dozen flagship projects funded to date are each first-of-a-kind-inEurope biorefineries at commercial scale. Each has a high replicability potential for further, larger plants to be built across the continent leveraging regional feedstocks, supply chains, workforces and offtake markets. Additionally, many of these flagships have graduated from earlier research and/ or demonstration scale projects illustrating the BBI/CBE commitment to seeding industrial scale innovation. ReSolute is one of these flagship projects. Led by Circa Sustainable Chemicals BV – part of Circa Group AS – the building of the ReSolute cellulosics-to-chemicals plant will realise over a decade of lab, pilot and demonstration scale R&D investment and ambition. The €11.6 million grant will fund an 11 partner consortium to manufacture the novel, non-toxic solvent CyreneTM from waste cellulosic feedstocks. Circa has achieved this new, sustainable value chain by developing a proprietary 1-step catalytic process to produce the bio-based building block levoglucosenone (LGO) before a second step generates CyreneTM . The biorefinery will be built in France and Circa envisages it as the first of many plants with notably larger scales. Whilst the EU grant does not cover 100% of the capital expenditure required to construct the 1,000 mtpa CyreneTM plant, it has supported Circa in building the strong platform it needs from which to raise the remaining capital. Circa Group went to the financial markets in March 2021 and successfully raised the equivalent of €56 million and listed on the Euronext Growth stock exchange in Oslo. Collaboratively with partners such as the University of York’s Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence, Circa has developed an industrial solvent not confined by yesterday’s thinking. CyreneTM has a unique property set, including viscosity, surface tension and polarities, and is a technical replacement for dipolar aprotic solvents that are under regulatory pressure for their toxicity, i.e. NMP, DMF, DCM. Yet despite these obvious drivers, the chemical industry barriers-to-entry remain significant and require collaboration, investment and patience to overcome. To date, Circa has worked with over 1,000 companies and researchers globally to develop application markets and the versatile technical properties of CyreneTM continue to be demonstrated.

CyreneTM is the first of many products Circa intends to develop from the previously inaccessible platform chemical LGO. It can be derivatised into a range of advanced materials with applications across solvents, specialty polymers, flavours & fragrances, pharmaceuticals, agrochemical actives and beyond. The LGO platform will either produce materials capable of out-performing traditional counterparts or ‘drop-ins’, prized for their chirality and complex structures, manufactured more economically in fewer, safer steps. SMEs are at the heart of flagships, but to ensure value chains and downstream markets will be robust and economically viable, industry plays a fundamental role. For example, ReSolute partners include Huntsman, Talga and Merck. The other flagships include in their consortia Lego, Cargill, Henkel, Tereos, Carlsberg, Sudzucker and Nestle. The projects are located across Europe and, along with Circa’s LGO/CyreneTM, chemicals produced (or soon to be) include carboxylic acids (from crop residues), lactic acid/PLA (from dairy waste streams), bioethanol (from cellulosics) and novel bio-based plastics (from crop residues). But why is the CBE JU needed to continue the work of the BBI JU? Although progress has been made, there is much left to do to build an industrial ecosystem driven by circular and sustainability principles. The quality and quantity of new chemical innovation being spearheaded by SMEs yet struggling to attract investment for first-of-akind biorefineries remains a challenge. Public support – in collaboration with private industry – is still needed to derisk large capital expenditure and support SMEs, like Circa, in attracting private investment. And for us as chemical innovators? We’ve built an industry on carbon but today we can access the oxygen in biomass. Combined with biotechnology and advanced manufacturing, we can imagine and create the ideal solvent, catalyst, reaction. And for the next seven years we have access to an ambitious, open-minded, commercially-driven funding framework which is building sustainable supply chains using biomass. This funding framework works on collaboration, actively favours start-ups/SMEs and has the input of innovative multinationals, universities and R&D institutes. The CBE JU is for us all to engage with. It will support your sustainable and circular ambitions as we accelerate the commercialisation and adoption of the chemical supply chains we need tomorrow. If you are looking to work with green solvents or LGO derivatives, please contact me:

sarah.hickingbottom@circa-group.com

“And for us as chemical innovators? We’ve built an industry on carbon but today we can access the oxygen in biomass. Combined with biotechnology and advanced manufacturing, we can imagine and create the ideal solvent, catalyst, reaction. And for the next seven years we have access to an ambitious, open-minded, commerciallydriven funding framework which is building sustainable supply chains using biomass.”

1. www.chemicalindustryjournal.co.uk/rising-to-the-challenge-of-creating-afuture-proofed-sustainable-toxic-free-chemicals-industry

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CHEMUK BACK IN 2021 – BIGGER AND BETTER

The CHEMUK 2021 supply-chain expo and speaker programme returns on the 15th & 16th September 2021 at the NEC in Birmingham.

CHEMUK 2021 will bring together the UK’s chemicals, chemical processing and chemical product formulation industries, providing an intensive 2-day supply chain sourcing, business networking, intelligence gathering, best-practice and strategy development experience. 300+ specialist supply chain exhibitors spanning 10,000+ sqm of floor, more than 40 hours of free expert conference programmes, panel & feature programmes, unique sector wide networking opportunities and lots more await 2021 attendees, over TWO packed days. NEW FOR 2021 will be the ‘CHEMSOURCE’ Zone that will see an expansion of the exhibits space and speaker programme coverage, relating to Specialty Chemicals, Ingredients & Raw Materials supply chain & sourcing.

2-DAY CHEMICALS INDUSTRY SUPPLY CHAIN EXPO

CHEMUK 2021 will provide visitor groups with a diverse and impressive showcase of 300+ specialist exhibitors showcasing latest plant, equipment, materials and services supporting the chemicals industries, driving product innovation, plant & process performance, future-proofing, supply-chain fulfilment, safety, compliance and more.

Key exhibition focus streams, featuring latest industry solutions, technology, innovations, partners and specialist services include:

Plant, Process, Flow & Control

Chemicals, Ingredients, Raw Materials

Heath, Safety, Environment, Regulatory

Logistics, Storage, Handling & Fulfilment

Laboratory, Research & Development

Business & Operations Management

Skills, Training, HR & Recruitment

Including: Process Plant & Equipment / Process Engineering / Process Control / Process Automation/ Flow Management / Plant & Asset Mgmt / Plant Optimisation / Process Intensification/ Digitalisation & QC

Including: Industrial & Supply Chain Chemicals / Chemical & Formulation ingredients & additives / Raw Materials – for Chemicals processing & product formulation sectors/Green Chemistry

Including: HSE/ Process Safety / Hazard Management / Environment Compliance & Regulatory Management / Responsible Care/Risk & Asset Mgmt / Security

Including: Logistics & Transport / Supply Chain Mgmt / Warehousing & Storage / Loading & Handling / Industrial Packaging /Contract Processing& Fulfilment Services

Including: Laboratory chemicals / Lab Equipment, Apparatus & Instrumentation / Lab Testing/ Research & Development Services, Sector Innovation

Including: Engineering & Technical Services / Business Support Services / Trade & Business Performance / Operational & Asset Mgmt / Brexit & Regulatory Mgmt

Including: Chemical /Process sector Careers, Skills, Training & recruitment

More than 150 ‘brand new exhibitors’ join the show floor for 2021

Major industry players through to niche solutions & services suppliers, from all sides of the sector, have joined into the packed exhibitor line up for the CHEMUK 2021 Supply Chain Expo, benefitting from new bigger venue of the NEC, Birmingham.

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abcr. Gute Chemie is your complete service provider for special chemicals. This limited company is a family-run business based in Germany that specializes in sales, production and research & development on behalf of customers. Our customers include almost all well-known companies in the pharmaceuticals and chemical industries, as well as universities. We offer 300,000 organic, inorganic and organometallic chemical products in our online shop. We synthesize substances on behalf of our customers in our laboratories and production facilities in Germany and Europe, and also rely on an international network of qualified suppliers. Whether you need a few grams or several tons of a certain product - we deliver worldwide - safely and reliably. Gute Chemie – created in Germany & Europe. www.abcr.com AxFlow has over 70 years history in the UK operating from 5 locations across the country from which it supplies a large range of process pumps and comprehensive pump service and repair packages. AxFlow has the widest process pump portfolio in the UK which includes AODD, vane, rotary lobe, progressive cavity, peristaltic, gear, eccentric disc, turbine, piston, axial flow, mixed flow and numerous types of centrifugal pumps including ISO 5199, API 610, mag drive, canned and lined ranges. AxFlow have recently developed a state-of-the-art remote pump monitoring system that utilizes wifi, 4G and a cloud server.

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Actikem is a purpose-led, values-driven business. The products we make, help to enhance lives. Whether it is the manufacture of hand sanitising gel to reduce the spread of infection, or the products used to aid the bio-fermentation process in the manufacture of anti-cancer drugs, solving everyday chemical problems for our customers is what we do. Our ethos runs through our whole business; from the sourcing of sustainable products, and the investment in the professional development of our staff, to the lasting connections we make with our suppliers and our local community, we always remain focused on being a fair, trusted and responsible business.

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Visit ARI-Armaturen on stand H34 to see how you can successfully achieve this PLUS maximum sustainability, optimum efficiency, reliability and energy savings through their extensive range of customisable products. With over 60 years of experience specialising in control, isolation, safety and steam trapping, ARI-Armaturen UK Ltd is a subsidiary of a large German valve and steam trap manufacturer. ARI-Armaturen’s expertise has enabled a presence in various industries, providing complete solutions to process fluid requirements with an impressive range of valves, steam-traps and engineered systems. Featuring at the exhibition will be ARI-Armaturen’s premium triple offset isolation valve - ZETRIX, in a double block and bleed arrangement boasting zero leakage and emissions. Tel: 01684 275752 Email: enquiries@uk.ari-armaturen.com

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BKW offer an unrivalled portfolio of process instrumentation products, solutions and services. Our partnerships with some of the world’s largest instrumentation brands including Beta, Brooks Instrument, Emerson and WIKA Instruments ensures we can offer in-depth technical guidance for products and applications. We have a modern manufacturing facility based in Manchester, designing and engineering process instrumentation assemblies for Pressure, Temperature, Flow, Level and Valve applications. Combining our technical expertise, project management and customer service focus, BKW can fully meet our customers instrumentation demands, from minor repairs and calibrations to shutdowns and EPC projects.

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Issue 88

Online

Members may be aware of updates to the UK policies as they have been ˜agged in the National News Media. The Energy White Paper ‘Powering our Way to a Net Zero Future’ was issued on Monday (14th December) and is available on the BASA website on the Environment & Sustainability Working Group page. This sets out the strategic direction the government is taking in relation to energy supplies, transport etc. See pages 96 to 117 for Buildings, and 118 to 131 for industrial energy. Included in the Energy White Paper and announced at the London Stock Exchange at 7am on Monday was the decision that the UK government and the devolved administrations will implement a UK Emissions Trading Scheme from 1st January 2021, all the necessary legislation has already passed through Parliament. This is a decision away from a general carbon tax. The government hopes that in time the UKETS will link to the EU Emissions Trading System (EUETS). In other news the Sixth Carbon Budget report was published by the Climate Change Committee on 9th December 2020 and is based on an extensive programme of analysis, consultation and consideration by the Committee and its sta°, building on the evidence published last year for our Net Zero advice, again the report can be downloaded via the E&S WG pages and is taken from the CCC website: https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/sixth-carbon-budget/ In support of the advice in this report, there is also a Methodology Report, setting out the evidence and methodology behind the scenarios and a Policy Report, setting out the changes to policy that could drive the changes necessary particularly over the 2020s. The charts and data behind the report are available, as well as a separate dataset for the Sixth Carbon Budget scenarios and a public Call for Evidence. The recommended pathway requires a 78% reduction in UK territorial emissions between 1990 and 2035. In e°ect, bringing forward the UK’s previous 80% target by nearly 15 years. INFORMED COMMENT FROM THE BRITISH ADHESIVES & SEALANTS ASSOCIATION @BASA_updates www.basa.uk.com +44 3302 233290 secretary@basa.uk.com BulletinIssue 91 FEBRUARY 2021 Online INSIDE THIS ISSUE: HSE spot checks and inspec�ons on businesses con�nue during lockdown RIDDOR repor�ng of COVID-19Tes�ng Times – The Logis�cs and Benefits of Workplace Tes�ng for COVID-19: Hampton Knight Feeling the post-Brexit heat of the new wooden Pallet requirements: DAERA HMCA Medical Cover for BASA MembersDoes the pandemic spell the end of tradi�onal silicone sanitary sealants? Hodgson Sealants Apollo Technical Centre anniversary4Ward Tes�ng completes UKAS reassesment CPG UK puts £9,000 budgeted for Christmas to a pioneering community project Chemique Adhesives publish Technical Paper Coronavirus effect on supply chains: JOC Bondloc UK Ltd Renews ISO 9001:2015 Cer�fica�on Climate Change, Decarbonisation and Net Zero 02 04 05 08 09 10 11 11 12 13 13 14 Continued on next page. ____________________________________________ _____ ________________________________________________ FEICA’s model EPD’s have now been running for a number of years and we are starting to see more UK interest in this use in this country. GREAT NEWS – the UK’s departure from the EU will have no e ect on BASA’s Association Membership of FEICA, so you will be able to continue to take advantage of FEICA’s core European EPDs for adhesives and sealants.Full details can be found here: https://www.feica.eu/our-priorities/edps FEICA also has guidelines on how to calculate that your product is covered by a speci c core Model EPD. These guidelines, together with a template for a declaration of compliance, are available for FEICA members by clicking on the 'request' link in table in the link above. The validated Declaration of the core EPD entitles the holder to bear the symbol of the Institut Bauen und Umwelt e.V. It exclusively applies for products produced in Europe and for a period of ve years from the date of issue. The core EPD may be used by FEICA members and their members provided it has been proven that the respective product can be represented by this particular EPD. The "FEICA Model Environmental Product Declarations (Model EPDs)” for the adhesive and sealant industry will lead to signi cant cost and time savings for companies. Moreover, by expanding the range of products with Model EPDs, it will signi cantly increase the choice of adhesive and sealant products available to architects and green procurement bodies. It will give SMEs improved access to a market that is otherwise only available to some. The validity of the FEICA Model EPDs will be extended by one year due to delays relating to COVID-19. The updated ones will be published in mid-2021. We will monitor the UK implementation of any requirements speci c for the GB market. INFORMED COMMENT FROM THE BRITISH ADHESIVES & SEALANTS ASSOCIATION @ @BASA_updates www.basa.uk.com +44 3302 233290 secretary@basa.uk.com Bulletin Issue 89 NOVEMBER 2020 Online INSIDE THIS ISSUE:BASA VIRTUAL Open Industry Forum - a Teams Live Event Bondloc UK announces na�onal distribu�on agreement with MSC packaging Extended producer responsibility - naviga�ng the new packaging landscape - Valpak Croner webinar schedule UKCA marking update2021 changes to ADR The changing face of healthcare in the UK - HMCA Poison Centres update FEICA EPDs - a model for the future! 02 03 04 05 06 08 12 14 One of the great bene ts for all BASA Members is the option to sign up for the FEICA Extranet. As an employee of a BASA Member Company you have FEICA National Association Membership and access to the Extranet Members only area and also an option to sign up for the automatic email noti cations. This is going to be important over the coming months as we head towards the 31st December end of the EU exit implementation period. Whilst we aim to give you as much information as possible, it is still going to be useful to compare this with an EU view of the processes and procedures needed to continue business with our closest neighbours. Talking about information, it is probably also a good time to tell you about the various changes to the FEICA O ces that have occurred over the last few months. We probably ought to have mentioned in the last BASA e-Bulletin, that on 6 May 2020, it was announced that FEICA had appointed a new Secretary General following Philip Bruce’s retirement. FEICA President, Roland Albers, wished a fond farewell to Philip on his retirement after his four-and-a-half-year term as Secretary General. He went on to say that the FEICA Executive Board unanimously appointed Kristel Ons as the incoming Secretary General of the Association with e ect from 15 June 2020. INFORMED COMMENT FROM THE BRITISH ADHESIVES & SEALANTS ASSOCIATION @ @BASA_updates www.basa.uk.com +44 3302 233290 secretary@basa.uk.com BASA remain full FEICA members From 1st January 2020 business as usual Bulletin SEPTEMBER 2020 INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Obituary for Peter Cur�s Itac member story FEICA’s comments on the Wood/PFA report FEICA publishes Posi�on Paper Beardow Adams member storyChemique member story FEICA Benefits con�nued Dealing with Brexit con�nued Kristel Ons with NAM competition winner Jana Kohn at FEICA 2019 Continued on Page 8 We are now starting to see more information being published and a more active post-EU campaign being run in the press and Manufacturers are being asked to start preparing for the 1st January 2021. This is not as straightforward as it seems due to the need to publish the UK Statutory Instruments to take on all of the current legislation handled by the EU. The added complication is that because there is currently no deal on things like free trade or mutual recognition with the EU, it means that all of the guidance assumes no deal. Thus, BASA needs to advise members that whilst what we are advising is legally correct in terms of current legislation, then if we believe that a deal will be done by 31st December 2020, this may mitigate against some of the more onerous procedures and costs.Save the date 13th October 2020! BASA Virtual Open Industry Forum See the back page of this issue (page 8) for details about our VIRTUAL Open Industry Forum and to send in your questions! Dealing with Brexit Continued on Page 8 02 03 04 06 07 07 08 08 INFORMED COMMENT FROM THE BRITISH ADHESIVES & SEALANTS ASSOCIATION @ @BASA_updates www.basa.uk.com +44 3302 233290 secretary@basa.uk.com Bulletin Issue 90 DECEMBER 2020 INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Chemique Adhesives helps boost efficiency for garden room manufacturer Economic update from Roger Mar�n-Fagg Technical Working Group updates UK Construc�on Products Regula�on Poison Centres & CLP update FEICA SD Commi�ee BASA events over the years in pictures A note from your Chairman 02 04 06 14 16 18 19 2020 has been a strange year and businesses of all types have been hugely a ected by the Coronavirus pandemic. I re-read Scott’s parting article in the April 2020 Bulletin issue, that was penned just as we were forced to cancel the March 2020 AGM and Industry Lunch and we went into the rst UK Lockdown. I am not sure any of us could have really predicted the devastating global death toll or contemplated the fact that in December we would have only just come out of the second national lockdown with continued long-term restrictions imposed on many businesses. The impacts of COVID-19 to date have been signi cant on health, the economy and society. The nuances of how to tackle the virus are not straightforward and the actions taken do not have completely predictable e ects as there is evidence the pandemic can a ect health and wellbeing in many ways: from our care systems to the amount of exercise we do; from our mental health to the quality of the air that we breathe. There were an estimated 633,000 people with COVID-19 in the community in England in the week ending 21 November and prevalence remains high throughout much of the country. We are all pinning hopes that the vaccination breakthrough will change the face of the pandemic in 2021 and we can start to get back to the ‘new’ normal. At the beginning of the year BASA had predicted that Brexit issues including UKREACH, UKCLP, UKBPR, UKCA marking, rules of origin and will-it-happen-or-not with the EU would be our only focus, however events overtook this, and it is only in the last 2 months that many BASA Members have started to engage and take on board the huge repository of information available on the website. As I write this, we are still contemplating the prospect of no events in the rst half of 2021, and a reduction in subscriptions income due to this and the membership loss of some raw materials members who are no longer prioritising the UK market. I can inform you that BASA Council have taken the decision that the AGM will be held virtually in March and have cancelled the traditional March industry lunch once again but we are still hopeful that we can have BASA sports day in June. Much will of course depend upon the vaccine and whether BASA Members are able to attend face to face events again. I really hope it will be possible and we have the opportunity to meet with old friends, make a few new ones, re ect on the events of the last year and celebrate the resilience and resourcefulness of the industry we are involved in. We will start to get information out to you all in the New Year. BASA Chairman: Phillip Lee Chairman’s message continued on next page.... Proposed at a recent Technical Steering Commi�ee mee�ng, BASA intends to produce a series of informa�ve webinars and podcasts to guide members through a number of topics of interest. Our first webinar will be based on the recent Poison Centers no�fica�on webinar where we will be taking you though the use of the ECHA Portal (date TBC), but we have a list of topics and a survey out for members (you can s�ll take the survey here: h�ps://basa.uk.com/News/Ar�cleDetails?ar�cleId=947). These were the 10 topics we asked members to rank in order of importance: • CLP, classifica�on of substances • Diisocyanates • Poison Centres (UK & EU) • Dangerous goods / transport • Biocides • Construc�on products regula�on – EU & UK • Waste Classifica�on • SCIP database • Consignment notes • Standards (BS, ISO & CEN) @ Proposed topics by BASA members: • UK REACH - access to ECHA data • How UK REACH differs from EU REACH • WTO tariffs • Customs clearance • Titanium Dioxide If you gave a topic that is not listed please get in touch and let us know. INFORMED COMMENT FROM THE BRITISH ADHESIVES & SEALANTS ASSOCIATION @@BASA_updates www.basa.uk.com +44 3302 233290 secretary@basa.uk.com BASA to put together a series of short webinars for members Bulletin Issue 87 JULY 2020Online INSIDE THIS ISSUE: BASA Member support during COVID-19 crisis 02 Polymers under REACH 03 Member stories 04 Standards 06 Dangerous Goods 06 Poison Centres 07 Titanium Dioxide 07 Sustainability 08 Diisocyanates 08 WELCOME Open Industry Forum As a result of the Corona virus, BASA has decided that face to face mee�ngs are unlikely to be held in 2020. This will mean that the Open Industry Forum normally held in October/November each year will not take place. We are currently looking at the op�on of holding a Zoom type short online Forum where we can update you all on the webinars available as pre-recorded sessions on the website and also give you all a short review of the key working group and regulatory issues and also the latest Brexit guidance. The provisional date for this is 13th October 2020 See us at stand

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With its history dating back to its inception in 1983, BASA has excelled in its mission to become an umbrella organisation for UK adhesives and sealants manufacturers. We focus on technical and legislative aspects and on promoting awareness of the industry and technology by providing guidance on technical and compliance issues and creating a variety of networking opportunities for members, holding events using virtual platforms since March 2020. BASA hopes to continue to reach more potential members, looking at ways to support its manufacturers post Brexit and help them to navigate potential new legislation and trade rules.

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Since opening its doors, CDR Pumps (UK) Ltd have gone from strength to strength bringing you a company which has the product, service and knowledge to support the chemical, nuclear and pharmaceutical industries on a global scale; small enough to give you the individual care and attention you need yet big enough to support multi-site, multi-national blue-chip chemical companies. Our global manufacturing facility in Milan is strategically located to support our customers across the world. Visit us on stand G20 to find out more about our patented lining technology, our solids handling seal-less pump and the popular electric diaphragm pump. t: 01933 674777 | e: sales@cdrpumps.co.uk | www.cdrpumps.co.uk BPMA has been supporting the UK and Irish suppliers B13 of liquid pumps and pumping equipment since 1941. Its mission • To be the effective voice of the pump industry • To satisfy the needs of the members • To encourage the active participation of the members • To maximise the membership of the Association Supporting the pump sector through the provision of technical support, knowledge and independent pump training that includes two world-class e-Learning courses, six lecture-based courses, on-site and bespoke pump training. In 2019, BPMA launched Flow a unique quarterly magazine packed with news, innovations, insight and applied technology for users of pumps and pumping systems. Come along to Chem UK, see what BPMA has to offer and pick up a copy of flow.

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Poor product flow, shifting solubility and variable reaction kinetics can cause significant performance issues for the chemicals industry. This is where our world-class engineers excel, applying their hard-earned materials expertise to control consistent, repeatable particle size distribution to manage parameters such as melt rate, packing density and tensile strength – batch after batch after batch.

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At ChemUK 2021, Chemstore, the hazardous materials experts, will be showcasing ‘Chempli’, a software tool for hazardous materials management that improves compliance, reduces risk and simplifies maintenance. In particular Chemstore will be highlighting the tool’s remote monitoring system that enables full temperature control, fire alarm visibility and data logging from any location and at any time, which is critical for the safe storage of hazardous substances. The Chempli online portal can be accessed via a QR code found on any of Chemstore’s range of hazardous materials storage solutions including: Firevault, Corvault, Electrovault, Thermovault, Hazvault and Gasvault. Chempli can also be accessed via a web browser.

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Chemical Inspection and Regulation Service (CIRS) is a leading product safety and chemical management consulting firm, with branches in Ireland, UK, China, Korea and US. We provide one-stop compliance services on Chemicals, Cosmetics, Food, and Medical Device to support clients gain competitive advantage by reducing business risks associated with regulatory affairs and removing barriers to entry. Web: www.cirs-reach.com

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Delta Containers is an IBC specialist with more than 30 years’ experience. We have all type of IBC’s and any spare part you might need. • UN approved stainless steel IBC’s and bespoke stainless tanks • New, Rebottled and Reconditioned 1000ltr IBC’s • We purchase your used Industrial Packaging and provide laundry services • IBC jackets (heated/insulated/UV filter) • Drum & IBC bunds, spill pallets and much more… BUY ONLINE for next day delivery - www.deltacontainers.com For further information call us on 0161 231 2875

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Fullbrook Systems Ltd specialise in the process measurement of Refractive index (Brix), viscosity, turbidity, chemical & solids concentration as well as colour. In the laboratory the Turbiscan is used to track particle size and concentration change in concentrated systems More than 30 years of experience in UK industry with applications in food, pharma, petrochemical and others. Our comprehensive range of milling, mixing and dispersion equipment for paints, inks and coatings is also widely used for R&D and large scale production. Brand names that we work with include Kemtrak, Dispermat, Schmidt & Haensch, Wilhelm Niemann, Kreis, Formulaction and Ametek Brookfield Contact us at www.fullbrooksystems.co.uk Email: sales@fullbrook.com Tel: 01442 876 777

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Gericke design and manufacture leading edge powder processing technology, we are your Global partner for the Chemical Industry. We offer our customers individualised complete solutions and highquality components based on 125 years of experience in powder handling and materials processing. Our deep process understanding, and our local customer proximity enable us to jointly develop the ideal solution for the specific requirements of our customers. We pride ourselves on saving our customers time and money with Engineering and Project Management tailored to meet their specific needs.

www.gerickegroup.com/en

Glassflake Ltd is a world leader in the manufacture of glassflake; an engineered, performance enhancing additive. Glassflake Ltd uses an innovative manufacturing process which has enabled accurate control of glass composition and the production of thinner flake (as low as 100nm), with uniform thickness and exceptional consistency. Glassflake is typically produced from 4 core glass formulations, though specific glass types can be formulated to accommodate customer requirements. Glassflake is a platelet, high aspect ratio material which imparts unique properties in a wide range of products such as coatings, engineered polymers, and decorative effect pigments.

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With over 20 years’ experience in the chemical industry, Dura-ID can provide you with the tools to label your products in-house efficiently. BS5609 approved solutions paired with our media, mean you can be sure that your products meet all the necessary regulations. We have access to exclusive materials and print solutions here at Dura-ID so; whether you are over-printing stocks with red diamonds, want to take complete control of your printing so you can improve efficiencies, or want to incorporate your branding, a colour coding system, or images for retail – we have a solution that will work for you.

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