This paper focuses on the issue of non-financial corporate reporting by the Czech chemical companies. Based on the content analysis of the websites and disclosures, it analyses, compares and evaluates the level of web communication of the economic, environmental and social issues of corporate...

The shift away from fossil fuels needed to reduce CO2 emissions requires the use of renewable carbon and energy sources, including biomass in the bioeconomy. Already today, the bioeconomy has a significant share in the EU economy with traditionally bio-based sectors. For the future, the energy,...

In studying industrial sustainability programs, the authors developed a new method for evaluating sustainability practices and applied it to the examination of an array of firms in three industries: Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, and Foods using a rubric and rating scheme, reported at IBEC 2019 and...

This study investigates the impact of the introduction of the European chemical regulation (the EU REACH legislation) on chemical search and innovation by focusing on the knowledge recombination processes leading to the generation of inventions. Using a novel dataset of patents and chemical...

Sustainability has evolved into one of the key topics for organizations and organizational researchers alike. To meet changing societal demands, organizations have to adapt their long-term strategies and incorporate environmental and social aspects into their product offerings and...

This study investigates the influence of personality characteristics and employees' motivation to learn on safety training transfer, in the context of a chemical manufacturing company. The study focuses on five personality characteristics: Locus of Control, Extraversion, Conscientiousness,...

The shift away from fossil fuels needed to reduce CO2 emissions requires the use of renewable carbon and energy sources, including biomass in the bioeconomy. Already today, the bioeconomy has a significant share in the EU economy with traditionally bio-based sectors. For the future, the energy,...

Die chemische Industrie ist eine der wichtigsten Branchen der deutschen Volkswirtschaft. Sie zeichnet sich durch eine hohe Kapitalintensität aus und steht als Grundstoffproduzent für viele andere Branchen am Anfang der Wertschöpfungskette. Jeder Euro direkte Wertschöpfung, der von...

The chemical fertilizer industry has made great contributions to China's food security. Existing studies mainly focus on evaluating fertilizer use efficiency at the farm level whereas little is known about the technical efficiency of Chinese firms producing fertilizer. Based on the Chinese...

Little is known about military attitudes toward weapons taboos, or the durability of non-use norms in wartime. Chemical weapons are a key case given public revulsion and clear international prohibitions. We explore soldiers’ attitudes in a salient setting: the Pacific theater of World War II....

Specialty chemicals are typically produced in large-volume batch reactors characterized by straightforward operation but limited efficiency. Process intensification via transition from batch to continuous operation offers the prospect of strong improvements over current state-of-the-art in...

Azerbaijan’s economy has been investigated within Dutch disease (DD) and Natural Resource Curse Theory (NRCT) several times during the last 20-22 years, but the studies relied on heavily aggregated data and speculative theoretical models. Opinions differ in academia as to how and to what...

On-farm studies were conducted to evaluate currently available non-fumigant chemical and biological nematicides against plant-parasitic as well as free-living nematode communities in peach. Treatments included sole or combined application of two chemical nematicides oxamyl and fluopyram, a...

Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are intended to be transformed from energy consumers into sources of energy. This experimental study assessed the performance, sludge and methane production, and energy content of a chemically enhanced precipitation treatment (CEPT) reactor compared with a...

The widespread use of chemicals has led to significant water quality concerns, and their use is still increasing. Hence, there is an urgent need to understand the possible future trends in chemical emissions to water systems. This paper proposes a general framework for developing emission...

Continental records of the Permian–Triassic boundary are characterized by intense chemical weathering due to global warming and acid rainfall associated with volcanism. However, chemical weathering throughout the late Permian has not been interrogated in time-equivalent continental successions...

This article aims to identify the contribution of the Al-Invest program to resilience and economic growth in companies in the chemical sector. The study sample consists of 596 European and Latin American companies that benefited from Al-Invest. It was found that Knowledge Transfer was not the...

We investigate how exchange rates affect the Japanese chemical industry. This industry exports sophisticated products to downstream firms. Since more complex products are less substitutable in international trade, we investigate whether they have lower price elasticities. We measure complexity...

In this study, the removal of ammonia and phenol in saline chemical wastewater by radiation was investigated in detail. The results showed that chloridion in saline chemical wastewater could be transferred to •Cl and •ClO by radiation, which promoted ammonia oxidation, but inhibited phenol...

As and Fe in acidic liquors, such as acid mine drainage, require treatment before release to the environment. Adsorption or co-precipitation of As with biogenic and chemically produced Fe-containing settleable precipitates, i.e. schwertmannites was studied. Autotrophic Leptospirillum...

Black women are exposed to multiple non-persistent endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) at higher concentrations compared with white women. Using baseline data from a prospective cohort study of reproductive-aged Black women (N= 751), we characterized profiles of EDC mixtures and identified...

Carbon nanotube fiber (CNT fiber) synthesized through floating catalyst chemical vapour deposition (FC-CVD) is one of the strongest man-made fibers ever synthesized. The poor carbon conversion in the FC-CVD process is one of the major hurdles in its commercial deployment. In this work, we have...

Although hydrothermal treatment dewatering (HTD) has become an important direction of efficient and clean utilization of lignite, there are still few studies on the downstream combustion characteristics based on HTD process. In particular, the influence mechanism of HTD on the combustion...

Blue hydrogen and green hydrogen are key sustainable solutions to decarbonize European economy in the coming decades in order to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. The objective of this work was to assess the suitability of a synthetic Cu-based oxygen carrier in a continuous pilot plant for the...

In the previous report, we reported that Hypomontagnella monticulosa originating from the rhizome of Zingiber griffithii was known to produce a marine-derived natural product. An OSMAC-based approach was designed by modifying the nutritional composition of the growth medium to investigate any...

In this study, Candida Antarctica lipase B (CalB) was covalently immobilized on the surface of graphene oxide (GO) nanoparticles by sortase-mediated immobilization as well as a chemical attachment approach. Sortase is a transpeptidase that provides one-step purification and targeted...

Biodiesel is one of the most important bioenergy products. But the feedstock is the bottleneck of its production. In order to mine potential feedstock from the natural resources, a wild survey was conducted in 10 provinces or cities of North China, and 952 seed samples, which came from 587...

Aluminum alloys has widely used in many fields because its advantages. However, the existing corrosion protection methods have insufficient protection ability and cannot achieve long-term protection. In this paper, 1-Hydroxyethylidene-1,1-diphosphonic acid (HEDP) molecules are used to prepare...

Currently, the fastest growth of the chemical industry is, besides the Asian markets, expected in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, including Poland. However, the Polish chemical industry is facing several challenges such as high prices of raw materials, tougher environmental...

The aim of the paper is to evaluate the effect of exchange rates on the stock prices of companies in the chemical industry listed on the stock exchanges in the Visegrad Four countries. The empirical analysis was performed from September 2003 to June 2016 on companies from the petrochemical and...

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted trade flows, causing a trade drop in 2020 that was especially sensitive for pharmaceutical and medical products necessary to ensure public health. The production of pharmaceutical products is dispersed in a framework of global value chains. This study aimed to...

In der chemischen Produktion haben die Selbstorganisation der Beschäftigten und deren stetiger Erfahrungs- und Wissensaustausch weiterhin einen hohen Stellenwert, sowohl für die Anlagensicherheit als auch für die berufliche Handlungsfähigkeit der Fachkräfte. Er ist im Hinblick auf die...

Auf der Basis des Betriebsverfassungsgesetzes können Betriebsräte soziale, ökonomische und ökologische Themen verhandeln und damit einen betriebspolitischen Beitrag zur Nachhaltigkeit leisten. Diese Studie untersucht, welche Nachhaltigkeitsthemen dabei im Fokus stehen und auf welchen Wegen...