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News Sep 27, 2016 Chemical Activity Barometer Continues Solid Growth in September The CAB expanded 0.4 percent in September following a 0.4 percent gain in August and a 0.7 percent gain in July and June.
News Sep 27, 2016 ACC Releases August 2016 Resin Production and Sales Statistics U.S. production of major plastic resins totaled 6.8 billion pounds during August 2016, an increase of 2.4 percent compared to the same month in 2015.
News Sep 26, 2016 American Chemistry Council Welcomes House Committee's Interest in IARC The American Chemistry Council issued the following statement in response to the letter sent today by the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to the NIH.
Sep 22, 2016 The Adventures of Team Chlorine Team Chlorine is a trio of students from an international cyber school focused on science and math.
News Sep 22, 2016 U.S. Chemical Production Pulled Back in August The U.S. Chemical Production Regional Index (U.S. CPRI) retreated by 0.3 percent in August, following a 0.4 percent gain in July and a 0.6 percent decline in June.
News Sep 22, 2016 Flexible Packaging Recycling Project Announces Research Results, New Members An industry collaborative today announced the findings of a research program which showed that automated sorting technologies in use today can be optimized to capture flexible plastic packaging.
News Sep 20, 2016 U.S. Specialty Chemicals Market Notches Second Consecutive Monthly Gain The American Chemistry Council (ACC) reported that U.S. specialty chemicals market volumes rose 0.3 percent in August. This follows a 0.4 percent gain in July and a 0.3 percent decline in June. All changes in the data are reported on a three-month moving average (3MMA) basis.
News Sep 20, 2016 American Chemistry Council Addresses Assertions in New Report on Hexavalent Chromium Substance found at levels well below national drinking water standard.
Letters Sep 16, 2016 AMBA Letter To Representative DeFazio Supporting Competitive Switching There is widespread recognition in Congress and among virtually all rail customers that modernization of current STB rules is badly needed. Recently, the Board has taken the first step to allow for competitive switching.
News Sep 15, 2016 GreenBuildingSolutions.org Updated for Mobile Green Building Solutions (greenbuildingsolutions.org), a plastics industry original website by the Plastics Division of the American Chemistry Council, has promoted the use of energy-efficient, resilient, green building materials, and more environmentally friendly methods of construction since 2005.
Sep 14, 2016 CHEMTREC®: Specialist, Accounts Receivable, Collections The position is responsible for tracking and resolving outstanding payments on CHEMTREC products and services, including making daily collection calls, interacting with customers to resolve outstanding payments, and conducting research and analysis.
Sep 14, 2016 CHEMTREC®: Senior Systems and Applications Architect The position is responsible for providing technical planning systems integration, verification/validation and overall systems management for CHEMTREC’s 24/7 global operations.
Sep 14, 2016 CHEMTREC®: Manager, Sales This position is responsible for achieving sales goals as well as ensuring consistent and profitable sales revenues growth through positive planning, deployment and management of sales resources.
Letters Sep 07, 2016 Group Letter in Support of Energy Building Codes in S 2012 (September 7, 2016) We support the consensus-based, bipartisan energy code provision contained in S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act, which strengthens national model codes that are already certified, adopted and in-use by 44 states and several localities around the U.S.