One key principle in the automotive industry has always been to produce "just in time” in order to take costs out of the supply chain. This way of thinking has changed to a certain extent since last year’s earthquake in Japan, as Dr. Adalbert Huber, Merck KGaA explains in this video.
The global market for adhesives was estimated to be worth USD 21,527 million in 2010 and is expected to reach USD 28,659 million by 2016, growing at a CAGR of 5 % from 2011 to 2016.
ECHA has launched the Public Classification and Labelling (C&L) Inventory with the information coming from REACH registrations and CLP notifications so far received by the Agency. Over three million submission records covering more than 90,000 chemical substances are now freely accessible from the ECHA website.
