The Chemical Alliance

The British Association for Chemical Specialities (BACS), 265 The Chemical Alliance, 308 The Chlorine Institute, hic., 270... 

Chemical Engineer - Nuclear Programs United States Department of Energy (Retired) Signer and Director of the Eagle Alliance ... 

The magnitude of the effect of this scheduled phaseout on total carbon tetrachloride production is uncertain, since the Halogenated Solvents Industry Alliance estimates that only about 3% of the chemical manufactured in the U.S. is used in nonfeedstock applications (EPA 1991). Nevertheless, since the major current use of carbon tetrachloride is in the production of chlorofluorocarbons (see Section 4.3), and production of these chemicals has dropped significantly in recent years (C EN 1993) and is also scheduled for phase-out by 1996, a significant reduction in carbon tetrachloride production is expected during this decade. 

I remember the days when industrial scientists felt like they needed to have most research and development under their control. The chemical industry has led the way in showing that need not be the case. Two things that a company needs to do well no matter how big it is are (1) form partnerships and alliances to provide for the research and development they cannot do themselves and (2) be open minded about ideas that come from other sources. Both of these can require working closely (collaborating) with universities. 

Like all forms and expressions of appropriation, opinions differed among the members of the chemical community. Some pushed quite strongly for introducing mathematics into chemistry. The chemist Edward Frankland predicted that the future of chemistry was to lay in its alliance with mathematics. The chemist Paul Schutzenberger believed that mathematics would become an instrument as useful to the chemist as the balance. Jacobus H. Van t Hoff could not have been more... 

Among the strongest alliances that Imperial College has established to date is that with Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., a company operating in a number of sectors throughout the world. This is a prime... 

In Britain, as Basil Achilladelis points out, With the exception of Burroughs Wellcome, the transformation of manufacturing apothecaries into researchintensive companies was very slow.. . . Neither the manufacturing apothecaries nor the chemical companies had developed alliances with academic researchers that would allow them to participate actively in the emerging pharmaceutical industry. ... 

When the chemical supply chain is considered in the context of process design, one realizes that the chemical supply chain contains many of the elements of product design. Indeed, it deals with the chemistry, the selection, the manufacturing, and the supply chain of entire enterprises, single- or multi-company, as in the alliances that Stephanopoulos (2003) suggested, that deliver the product to the customer. 

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