King Nai Agyemang Wyettey Otabi III attends official reception for Sachtleben creativity stars
Eight years of Hollywood-style bronze-star honours for Sachtleben's innovative staff
One of Sachtleben's prime corporate objectives is employee-assisted continuous improvement. Diversity of ideas, combined with creativity and focused on an active internal suggestion scheme (ISS), therefore have a long history at Sachtleben. In the past trading year, the company's around 1300 staff submitted more than 2800 suggestions in the context of improvement activities for the company, just on half of them being implemented without further formality. The improvements achieved enabled Sachtleben to make net saving of 665,000 Euro this year, set against 150,000 Euro paid out in awards for the suggestions received. So it's only natural that the staff with the greatest flair and inventiveness should be rewarded, at an appropriate celebration, with a bronze star cast by the hand of an artist.
[Source: Communication] [February 2007] More
The embarrassing subject of drain smells.
Non toxic liquid concentrate solves nagging odour and corrosion problems.
With Biotol FRESH, a ready to use liquid concentrate, Sachtlebens' water chemicals specialists can now supply the first long term, environmentally safe, rationally priced solutions for the problems raised by toxic hydrogen sulfide gas (H2S) released from drains and pump sumps.
[Source: Communication] [November 2006] More
Merck and Sachtleben mark ten years of cooperation
Merck and Sachtleben are co-developing inorganic UV filters – Sunscreen and skincare products are becoming even more effective and user-friendly.
For the past ten years, Sachtleben Chemie GmbH and Merck KGaA have been cooperating closely in a market characterized by transition and change. This successful alliance has resulted in a wide range of UV filters for the cosmetics industry marketed under the brand name Eusolex® T, which was first launched in 1995. The partnership combines Sachtleben’s expertise in titanium dioxide with Merck’s longstanding know-how in marketing organic UV filters.
[Source: Pharma, Cosmetic, Food] [August 2006] More
Sachtleben particles eliminate chemical and biological warfare agents
Duisburg’s titanium dioxide photo catalysts play key role in international peace project.
Ever since the Chemical Weapon Convention was signed in 1997, warfare agents such as Sarin, Soman, Tabun or V agents such as VX – made famous in the action film "The Rock" – have been outlawed all over the world. In WWI, these weapons killed some 100,000 soldiers and injured over a million more. The international convention now calls for the destruction of all of the world’s major arsenals of these agents. However, these complex chemical substances cannot simply be destroyed, and continue to be a significant danger for mankind.
[Source: Communication] [July 2006] More
Dry milling of TiO2 pigments
At partec conference 2004 (Nürnberg, March 16-18) Dr. Ulrich Gesenhues (Sachtleben R&D Laboratories) presented a lecture on “High-energy dry ball-milling of TiO2 white pigments”. The contribution covers the aspects of process engineering, macroscopic and microscopic physical models of grinding, balance of desirable and undesirable reactions as a function of grinding energy, and consequences for the application-technological performance of the product.
[Source: Communication] [June 2006] More
The secret of longer life: Sachtolith in polypropylene
Sachtleben's zinc sulfide pigments protect against cable and hose breakage
Polypropylene (PP) is found in many instances in everyday life, wherever long service-lives are demanded from plastic materials, frequently under adverse conditions. Dish-washer hoses, hot-water pipes, pump housings and cable insulation systems are just a few examples.
[Source: Communication] [February 2006] More
Sachtleben receives Professional Association award for Industrial Health and Safety
The Chemical Industry Professional Association (German Abbreviation: BG Chemie), based in Heidelberg, awarded its new "Systematic Safety" seal of quality approval to Sachtleben on January 20, 2006. Our industrial health and safety management had been audited and validated as "Very good", the highest validation level. Sachtleben is thus the second German chemicals company to receive authorization to use this quality symbol.
[Source: Communication] [February 2006] More
200.000 porpoises and dolphins could be saved
Polymer Chemist Dr. Norman Holy Named 2005 Intel Environment Award for Fishing Nets that Avoid Dolphin and Whale By-Catches by Using Sachtleben Special Barium Sulfate Pigments
SAN JOSE, California, November, 2005
The Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, Calif., congratulated polymer chemist Dr. Norman Holy as one of the five winners on the 2005 Tech Museum Intel Environment Award for his development of fishing gear that reduces by-catches of cetaceans. The Tech Museum Awards honor those who are using technology to contend with the United Nations’ most urgent global challenges facing humanity and the environment.
[Source: Communication] [November 2005] More
Sachtleben raises prices for titanium dioxide products.
Cost explosion for energy and raw materials makes price increases unavoidable.
Against the background of a price level which for years has failed to reflected Sachtleben's investments in costly and complex production processes and of an explosive trend in energy and raw materials costs in recent months, Sachtleben sees itself obliged to increase prices for all Hombitan titanium dioxide products supplied from its Duisburg plant by 150 Euro per tonne with effect from January 1, 2006.
[Source: Communication] [November 2005] More
Premiere of Hombitan COS
With the launch of its new Hombitan COS product, Sachtleben once again proves its close market orientation and flexibility, demonstrating the truth behind its well-known corporate motto, “Great Solutions with Small Particles“. Hombitan COS is a micronized hiding anatase pigment with outstanding incorporation properties in oil-based cosmetic formulations such as make-ups.
[Source: Pharma, Cosmetic, Food] [July 2005] More