Dr. Klaus Engel, Evonik Industries AG, elected President of the German Chemical Industry Association (VCI)

The 2010 literary prize is awarded to Doris Fischer-Henningsen, Editor-in-Chief of Chemie in Unserer Zeit

New estimates of the amount of oil released from Deepwater Horizon are published in the first peer-reviewed study

Merck inaugurates new Material Research Center, the largest single R&D investment in the chemicals business sector to date

Neste Oil develops technology for turning waste into feedstock for renewable diesel

Biosorption of palladium from water turns industrial waste directly into C–C bond forming catalysts

DECHEMA Plaque awarded to Robert Schlögl, Fritz-Haber-Institut, Berlin, and Jürgen Lehmann, University of Bielefeld

ABB will supply high-efficiency transformers to CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Air Products board elects Chadwick C. (Chad) Deaton new director

Chemical Industry aims to meet REACH deadline, cooperation with key stakeholders working well, learning process continues