Brazil's chemicals industry: The current outlook
Brazil, the largest country in South America, is the world’s fifth-largest country by area and the seventh largest by population, home to over 213m people.
Alzheimer's blood markers investigated
Researchers in the US have identified three peptides in blood that could flag Alzheimer’s disease.
EU briefs - news from the chemistry industry in Europe
Read the news in brief from the EU from C&I Magazine Issue 6 2026.
Leader: SMEs’ crucial role in chemistry
Across the global chemical industry, small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) remain the backbone of the chemical sector. A few statistics illustrate the vital role that smaller businesses play in the chemicals supply chain.
Comment: Creating a quality culture
To operate successfully in a Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) regulated contract testing environment, an organisation needs more than documented procedures and validated systems. Sustained compliance depends on the culture that surrounds those systems and shapes how people apply them every day.
Contaminated hospital wastewater: A new approach to treatment
Hospital wastewater contains a range of complicated contaminants from pharmaceutically-active compounds (antibiotics, analgesics, β-blockers, hormones, stimulants, antidepressants and antiepileptics) to antibiotic resistance genes and pathogenic microorganisms.
Researchers make metallocene breakthrough
Researchers have reported the first full structural characterisation of a doubly ring-slipped reaction intermediate in the formation of a metallocene. With its unusual structure, this characterisation provides new evidence of how metallocenes may form, break and react, presenting design opportunities for stimuli-responsive, metallocene-based materials for a wide variety of potential applications.