You are here

Switzerland: The Success of Its Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Industries

Global Outlook

December

2013

Stavros Papadokonstantakis, Konrad Hungerbühler, Marcel Sennhauser

Download & Read This Article

The strong international presence of Switzerland’s chemicals industries — characterized by a major export market and substantial investment in its companies abroad — has helped to make the Swiss chemicals and pharmaceuticals industries among the world’s most successful.

Copyright Permissions

Would you like to reuse content from CEP Magazine? It’s easy to request permission to reuse content. Simply click here to connect instantly to licensing services, where you can choose from a list of options regarding how you would like to reuse the desired content and complete the transaction.

Protect Your Process with the Proper Flame Arresters

A flame arrester may be installed to keep an external flame out of a tank or vessel or to ensure that a flame burning within a pipeline does not propagate to other equipment. Use the information presented here to determine what type of device is appropriate for your application.

Follow this Process Development Path

Bench-scale engineering (BSE) and the interdisciplinary no-transfer team (INTT) are valuable complements to the scale-down-before-scale-up method of process development.

Switzerland: The Success of Its Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Industries

The strong international presence of Switzerland’s chemicals industries — characterized by a major export market and substantial investment in its companies abroad — has helped to make the Swiss chemicals and pharmaceuticals industries among the world’s most successful.

Special Advertising Section: Spotlight on ScaleUp: A Win-Win for Students and Industry

In an increasingly competitive global environment, how can chemical engineering students and companies alike align to meet the challenges ahead? Simply put, through AIChE’s ScaleUp program.

CEP: Calendars

AIChE Meetings Calendar, Webinars, and AIChE Education Calendar.

CEP: Editorial - Lightbulbs in the Shower

Metaphoric lightbulbs, that is — ideas. Many of my best ideas have come to me in the shower. So, I did some reading about creativity that shed a bit of “light” on why this is the case

CEP: Institute News

Annual Meeting Wrap-Up, President’s Corner: To Shape the Future We Want, AIChE Foundation Honors Stuart Churchill, AIChE Foundation Heralds ChE’s “Promise” in New Film, and more.

CEP: AIChE Journal Highlight - Survival of the Fittest: an Economic Perspective on novel Biofuels

Drop-in biofuels — so named because they can be blended with current fuels in any proportion without modifying existing infrastructure — for the transportation sector have attracted increasing attention. In general, these liquid fuels offer several advantages over first-generation biofuels... ...

CEP: What's New

Read about new products and services in the areas of instrumentation, operations and maintenance, fluids and solids handling, and environmental, health and safety.

CEP: News Update

Made-to-Order Materials Move Forward; 3D Photonic Crystal Stands Up to the Heat; Battery Electrode Acquires Self-Healing Power; GHG Emissions Decline as Power Plants Switch to Natural Gas; and more.

CEP: Process Safety Beacon - Hazards of Strong Oxidizers

A worker was asked to move two open-top 5-gal pails containing aqueous sodium permanganate solution from one location to another. When he picked up the pails, the contents of one of them erupted, spraying him with the solution. Sodium permanganate is a strong oxidizer, and the splashed material set...

CEP: Career Corner - Don’t Stop Learning

When was the last time you learned something new for your job? A generation ago, chemical engineers could expect to settle into a well-defined position at one company and remain there for an entire career. Today, things could not be more different. Many engineers change jobs at least once, or take...

CEP: Process Automation Corner - Real-Time Analytics for Pharmaceutical Quality Control

When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), under the leadership of Ajaz Hussain, then the Associate Director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), launched the Process Analytical Technology (PAT) Initiative a decade ago, it set in motion a multifaceted search for a...

CEP: Product Digest

This month's topic is fluids handling.

CEP Showcase

CEP: Marketplace

CEP: Recruitment Classifieds