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Arxada investing to expand Visp production site

Arxada (Basel, Switzerland), a global leader in specialty chemicals, announced the extension of its long-term collaboration with Royal DSM N.V. (Herleen, the Netherlands) for the supply of niacin and a range of other nutritional ingredients from Arxada’s facility in Visp,…

Ethics, Part 2: Survey Results  

For the mainstream media, stories about persons guided by their pocketbooks or hormones instead of ethical principles make fodder for front-page news. Although chemical engineers are not exempt from scandals, a poor ethical decision in the chemical process industries (CPI)…

Perplexing Ethical Problems: What’s

    It's sad to say, but can probably be proven, that the daily news will have at least one story involving someone who has made an unethical choice. Such stories are not limited to politicians, doctors or lawyers, but…

Che Salaries Show Signs of Improvement

    During the first half of this decade, painting a rosy salary picture for chemical engineers has been impossible at times, and at best required a creative flair. Forget gaining ground — amid salary freezes or raises that lagged…

Help Us To Honor Distinguished Careers

It is likely that in your work, you have crossed paths with a person you admire for a career involving excellence in chemical engineering. To perhaps bring that person recognition, nominate him or her for our 2006 Award for Personal…

Salary Prognosis: It’s All Relative  

  For some chemical engineers, the tank is half full; for others, it is half empty. Technically, both are right, especially if the discussion pertains to what they were paid in 2004. Where optimists argue that overall salaries continued to…

For Ch.E. job seekers, patience is a virtue  

  Are you a chemical engineer in search of employment? Be persistent, be patient and it will pay off, recruiter advise. The lingering question is when. The outlook for Ch.E.s is uncertain, reflecting that for employment overall. This uncertainty stems…

For Chemical engineers, salaries stay above the fray    

Has it been more than a year since you had a raise? Has your contribution to employee benefits been increased and the amount of your paycheck decreased? Have you gotten a promotion and new responsibilities, and still have to do…