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Volume 81, Number 10
CENEAR 81 10 p. 34
ISSN 0009-2347
E-BUSINESS
NEWS UPDATES FOR THE WORLD OF BUSINESS ONLINE
Companies
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GIVEAWAY For a limited time, Davison Catalysts is offering new Catalynk users a free set of catalyst carrier samples. DAVISON CATALYSTS
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Davison Catalysts, part of W.R. Grace, has launched its Catalynk website for researchers and process developers. The site, at www.davicat.com, provides an online expert system to help users select support materials for heterogeneous catalysts. It also offers tutorials and sample ordering capabilities. Users can input process conditions and other variables to choose materials. However, the site requires minimal information about the user in order to keep requests confidential.
BRG Townsend will soon make available the results of a survey to uncover customer e-business needs in the area of engineering resins, styrenics, and polyolefins in Europe. The business consulting firm says it will complete more than 600 interviews; it intends to collect information on which suppliers have been most successful in their e-business implementation, who is perceived as having the best systems and why, and what drives customers to use various features. The results will be offered to suppliers who want to design or improve their e-commerce initiatives.
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ChemNavigator's online iResearch Library now contains more than 5 million chemical samples from over 80 commercial and academic suppliers. Researchers can use the library for compound selection, structure-activity relationship searches, virtual screening, and sample ordering. The library can be licensed either on CD-ROM or for online access. ChemNavigator has recently added 3-D protein-ligand mapping technology to create chemical libraries designed to show high affinity to drug targets.
Nanoxchange.com and Nanotech-Now.com are new portals providing nanotechnology research and business information. Dynamo Inc. created Nanoxchange.com for technology buyers and sellers. The site--which covers materials, electronics, chemicals, biosystems, textiles, and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices--already has 75 small-tech vendors and more than 300 product listings. Services are free to nanotech and MEMS suppliers. Nanotech-Now.com, operated by staff from 7th Wave Inc. and the Foresight Institute, has started a consulting service called NanoStrategies. The service will provide information and guidance to companies and organizations that want to understand or use nanotechnology.
Trade-Ranger--the e-marketplace for procurement by the oil, gas, and chemical industries--will open a European operations center in Brussels in the second quarter. This expansion will allow it to better serve customers in the region. Trade-Ranger was launched in July 2000 as a joint initiative of 15 buyers; shareholders today include ConocoPhillips, Royal Dutch/ Shell, BP, Dow Chemical, Mitsubishi Corp., Occidental Petroleum, Repsol YPF, Solvay, Statoil, and TotalFinaElf. It offers procurement-related services and operates an independent hub that connects buyers and sellers in the upstream, downstream, and retail sectors.
Documentum is offering Documentum eRoom Enterprise, which integrates eRoom's collaborative software with Documentum's enterprise content management software. Documentum acquired eRoom in December 2002. The integrated offering will let users within organizations collaboratively create, share, manage, deliver, reuse, and archive the content of their business interactions. The company says its software is the only enterprise-scalable, single-platform application that has unified capabilities for all types of project work and all types of content, such as documents, e-mail, Web pages, and records.
- IBM will work with Chemical Industry Data Exchange and the Chemicals Sector Cyber-Security Information Sharing Forum to develop and implement the two groups' cyber-security initiative. IBM will help them establish sector practices and standards, as well as accelerate improved technology development. The forum consists of 10 chemical industry trade associations representing more than 2,000 companies.
- UCAR Emulsion Systems, part of Dow Chemical, has a new website for the paint, coatings, adhesives, and sealants industries. The site, www.ucarlatex.com, provides technical information and can assist formulators in choosing raw materials for their applications.
- Bayer Chemicals has a new site, www.zeto.com, publicizing the technologies, services, and equipment of its ZeTO central organics pilot plant in Leverkusen, Germany. The company says the facility is one of the largest pilot plants in the world, containing 130 reaction vessels for a wide variety of chemical processes.
- Lyondell Chemical has started marketing methyl tert-butyl ether through the online marketplace ChemConnect. Lyondell will continue to use its existing direct and third-party sales channels as well. It believes an electronic channel will increase price transparency and help develop a forward market for the product.
- Planalytics has added Eastman Chemical and Saint-Gobain Corp. as users of its GasBuyer software. The predictive pricing software aids in the Web-based purchasing and hedging of natural gas supplies.
E-Business is written by Ann Thayer, who can be reached at a_thayer@acs.org.
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