Industrial trends/developments

There is a definite trend in the suppHer industry to develop multifimctional materials with value-added properties. One suppHer has introduced a modified hydrocarbon resin that softens, improves filler incorporation, improves mill banding, and increases tack in the green compound while imparting increased low strain (<100%) stiffness, significantly improving tear resistance in the vulcanized compound. 

Karim A. A., Bhat R. 2008. Gelatin alternatives for the food industry recent developments, challenges and prospects. Trends in Food Science Technology 19, 644-656. 

A persistent management trend today is the one toward being leaner and meaner than the competition. A measurable excess in human resources is a luxury that is rarely found in todays chemical industry in developed countries. Management must constantly be attuned to the problems of dilution of knowledge by movement of their human assets. 

Daniel Luss We are now facing a situation that is rather different from what we faced several years ago. In the past, a major concern of the chemical industry was developing new and improved processes for producing bulk chemicals. At present, the trend is to develop new products, and this requires changes in training and education. 

Sanguansri, P., and Augustin, M.A. (2006b). A nanoscience approach to material development for the food industry. Trends FoodSci. Technol. 17, 547-556. 

Relation to other industries Historical development of the industry and companies Trends in the industry... 

A wide variety of synthetic plastics have been applied in countless products, replacing metal, wood, natural rubber, and other materials. Polymer production has been a base industry in developed countries since the early twentieth century. Today, the production of plastics amounts to about 150 million tons per year and displays an upward trend [1, 2]. 

Our redesigned book features major changes and additions. The Modern Plastics World Encyclopedia now contains a chapter on each primary process and articles on the latest industry trends and developments. Each chapter contains machinery charts in U.S. and metric standards as well as a comprehensive global Buyers Guide by process, including sales and service offices and sales agents. 

Karim, A. A. and R. Bhat, Gelatin alternatives for food industry Recent development, challenges and prospects. Trends Food Sci. TechnoL, 19 (2008) 644-655. 

Even though it is more difficult to identify current trends than to review data and history from the past, this chapter will attempt to highlight plastics industry trends relevant to POs late in the first decade of the twenty-first century. The chapter will bring together data and predictions from a number of industry sources whose skill and aedibility are based on their abilities to observe and explain developments in the plastics industry. 

In addition, the regime calls for industry to report performance data on voluntary basis. According to BOEMRE, it replaced the Mineral Management Service (MMS) after the Macondo accident, and the MMS had collaborated with the U.S. Coast Guard and representatives of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) oil and gas industry to develop a suite of consensus formulas for gauging the industry s safety and environmental performance since 1997 (BOEMRE 2011). These formulas, called the OCS Performance Measures, are used to calculate twenty annual, OCS-wide performance indices. The indices provide the public with information about performance trends, and they allow OCS lease operators to compare their performance with industry averages . The performance measures are presented in Table 9.2. 

Over time, the RNNP (Trends in risk level in the petroleum industry) process developed into the most important tool for this purpose, and was expanded in 2007 to embrace the PSA s responsibility for land-based petroleum plants. The RNNP is organised through a collaborative network embracing research institutions, industry, employers and unions and the government as shown in Figure 10.2. 

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