This Week in Anti-Aging Innovations It's a thrilling time to be involved with anti-aging products and treatments, even if you're just a witness to the constant stream of ingenuity and inventiveness coming out of laboratories and development centers, both in the U.S.A. and globally, as researchers and formulators deliver new discoveries, approaches, and products. [...]
Responsible Distribution verification by NACD member companies delivers peace of mind AND business advantages to members.
ICIS to award innovation ICIS is now taking entries for its eighth annual ICIS Innovation Awards, designed to recognise outstanding technological and business innovation in the chemical industry. Competitions like this allow the industry to demonstrate and honor the commitment by its constituent companies to a variety of critical causes -- like environmental protection, [...]
Innovating the future...of students! We applaud the first-ever USA Science & Engineering Festival, to be held October 10-24 in Washington, D.C., not only because it gives young people a way to celebrate and learn about science in a new way, but because its organizers tested the idea with a "pilot" festival held last year [...]
International growth looms in beauty & cosmetics in 2010 French marketing firm Eurostaf projects that the beauty products market fought this years' global downturn, and that prospects for 2010 are much better thanks to continued growth in markets in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia. Natural and organic products are a particular bright spot, [...]
Investment dollars are finding their way back into the natural personal care category, according to this recent story via CGI Magazine.
AkzoNobel is investing in its English R&D facility, paving the way for innovation and a stronger competitive edge.
Innovation...it's also about attitude. Here's a very good post from Business Week about why those in business who complain and feel victimized don't invent -- they find reasons not to succeed, so they don't bother to try, and accept failure as inevitable consequence, not as an opportunity to learn and move forward. So they don't [...]
The men's grooming product category is seeing continued strong worldwide growth
For updated news on the greening of the chemical industry... Since nearly everybody in the chemical industry is touched by enironmental and sustainability issues and concerns, we've made a habit of checking in on ICIS's Green Chemicals blog, one site that provides consistently-updated reportage on these topics, aggregating news on government and industry activity [...]