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Young Person Award Winner Named

31 March 2021

The Chemical Business Association (CBA) has named the winner of its annual Young Person Award – ANEEB CHAUDHRY, Process Engineer, Brenntag UK. CBA’s Young Person Award aims to encourage the excellence of young people – under 30 years of age - and recognise their contribution to the chemical distribution sector. Aneeb Chaudhry holds a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Surrey. He is currently responsible for the asset management and the delivery of related capital projects across the Brenntag UK network incorporating 13 chemical storage and distribution sites.

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Order Books Weaken, Margin Continue to Fall, Rising Employment Trend

31 March 2021

The results of CBA’s latest Supply Chain Trends Survey reveal weakened order books since the last survey and an accelerating decline in sales margins. Trends in employment and training have turned firmly positive against a background of stable current sales and a positive outlook for the next three months.

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Order Books Weaken, Margins Continue to Fall, Rising Employment Trend (Supply Chain Survey – March 2021)

22 March 2021

The results of CBA’s latest Supply Chain Trends Survey reveal weakened order books since the last survey and an accelerating decline in sales margins. Trends in employment and training have turned firmly positive against a background of stable current sales and a positive outlook for the next three months.

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Industry Calls For Changes to UK REACH

2 March 2021

CBA joined with 24 other chemical industry organisations as signatories to a letter to eight key Ministers highlighting the workability and affordability issues with UK REACH and proposing a more effective solution for this central pillar of the UK industry’s new regulatory framework.

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CBA Welcomes Improvements in UK REACH Workability and Affordability

30 October 2020

The Chemical Business Association (CBA) has welcomed the reconfirmation of Government’s intention to seek access to the database of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) as the ‘only viable solution’ to improving the workability and affordability of UK REACH.

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Order Books and Sales Bounce Back (Supply Chain Survey – October 2020)

20 October 2020

Order books and sales have bounced back since the last Supply Chain Trends Survey by the Chemical Business Association (CBA) in June 2020 and are now showing a positive survey-to-survey swing of more than 50%. Future sales margins, on the other hand, are forecast to fall by more than 25% over the next three months.

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UK REACH – Welcome Move, But Problems Remain

2 September 2020

Peter Newport, CBA Chief Executive, said, “CBA broadly welcomes the Government’s revised approach to UK REACH. But the key issues remain concerning the testing data supporting UK REACH registrations and the fees proposed to fund this process

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CBA’S 2020 MEMBER SURVEY PROVIDES a SIGNIFICANT ENDORSEMENT OF its ACTIVITIES and PERSONNEL

10 August 2020

Members have given CBA a massive vote of confidence endorsing its performance, services and effectiveness. No question in the Survey received an approval rating of less than 90% (the equivalent data from the 2017 survey is 70%)

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UK’s NEW START LET’s GET GOING – HOW CBA CAN HELP

10 August 2020

The “UK’s New Start” Government campaign urges us to ‘Check, Change, Go.’ But what do you need to know to ‘Check and Change’ so that your business can ‘Go’ when the UK-EU transition period ends? CBA ‘s series of workshops will help answer these questions.

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