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Warm welcome to our new Fecc member: Impratech! We are happy to have you on board! Impratech is a software and business solution provider for distribution and manufacturing businesses across Eu...

Warm welcome to our new Fecc member: Selerant! We are happy to have you on board! Selerant is a leading company in developing product lifecycle management PLM software and provides compliance...

Warm welcome to our new Fecc member: Pricefx! We are happy to have you on board! Pricefx is a provider of full suite price management and CPQ SaaS solutions. You can find Pricefx on social medi...

The revised Drinking Water Directive comes into effect on12 January. It aims to protect people, improve access to water and ensure uniform safety standards for industry. ECHA will support the Europ...

Warm welcome to our new Fecc member: Solevo Group! We are happy to have you on board! The Solevo Group is a distributor of specialty chemicals and inputs for specific industrial and agricultura...

Fecc anniversary special: interviews with Caldic - Alexander Wessels and Laurent Pasqualini This is the second part of a series of interviews with CEOs from member companies, which celebrate special...

In April 2020 Fecc published the Responsible Care Self-Assessment Excel Tool, which provides users with a practical tool to guide them towards excellence and to help drive continuous improvement in th...

On 19 November ECHA organised a webinar to support users on how preparing and submitting a SCIP notification. In this webinar, participants got a demo of how to create and submit a notification, an...

We are pleased to invite our members to join us for the launch of the Responsible Care Self-Assessment Web Tool for chemical distributors on 9 December 2020, 14h00-15h00 (CET), co-hosted with Cefic...

Brussels, 17 November 2020. Fecc is proud to announce that we are partnering again with EU-OSHA for this year campaign "Healthy Workplaces Lighten the Load", which focuses on work-related musculosk...

On the last week of October, the SCIP database will open for companies to notify ECHA about the hazardous chemicals in their articles – months in advance of the entry into application date. The...

Fecc anniversary special: interviews with CEOs of Eigenmann & Veronelli and Stockmeier Group This is the first part of a series of interviews with four CEOs from member companies, which are celeb...

Exporting from the EU, importing into the EU - all you need to know On 13 October the European Commission officially launched their new Access2Market portal, which is a multi-dimensional, very user-f...

From all of us at Fecc, we send Eigenmann & Veronelli S.p.A. our warm congratulations on this great achievement. Best wishes to our member company Eigenmann & Veronelli, which this year cel...

The webinar on "Diversity in the Chemical Industry" held by ICIS on 3 September hosted speakers from a range of backgrounds and included Fecc Director General Dorothee Arns. During the webinar, profes...

From all of us at Fecc, we send Caldic our warm congratulations on this great achievement. Best wishes to our member company Caldic, which this year celebrate its 50th anniversary. To many more ye...

From all of us at Fecc, we send Stockmeier and IMCD our warm congratulations on this great achievement. Best wishes to our member company Stockmeier for its 100th anniversary and to IMCD for its 25...

How to make successful Poison Centre notifications If you need to notify your hazardous mixtures to poison centres, watch ECHA's video and learn some useful tips that will help you make a successfu...

After more than 20 very successful Fecc webinars in a row with up to 250 participants online per session and on a variety of topics ranging from chemical market trends, Covid-19 impacts, segmental dev...

Fecc warmly invites you to join our two webinars organised with well-renowned partner organisations and external experts in different fields: 1 July, 14:00h - 15:00h (CET) "Competition law in t...

Candidate list update: Four new hazardous chemicals to be phased out On 25 June ECHA communicated that they have added 4 mor substances to the Candidate List of Substances of Very High Concerns (SV...

Fecc warmly invites you to the online roundtable discussion: “Driving the Change towards Circular Economy and women empowerment” organised by United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UN...

Europe chems supply chains strengthen but pre-crisis conditions still in the distance Brussels, 24 June 2020 Fecc Director General Dorothee Arns has been interviewed by ICIS journalist Tom Brown o...

ICIS Innovation Awards 2020 November 2020 // London, United Kingdom Innovation is the only way to set your company apart in the chemicals industry. With customers having to be more careful in thei...

8 June 2020 In today’s competitive global market, chemical distributors face not only growing compliance demands and have to deal with digitalization and cyber security issues, but also striv...

We warmly invite you to join our upcoming webinars that we have organised with well-renowned partner organisations and external experts in different fields: On the agenda: 17 June, 9:00h - 11...

After the cancellation of this year´s Fecc flagship event due to Covid-19 we are pleased to announce the new dates for 2021: our next Fecc Annual Congress will take place on 19-21 May 2021 in...

We are pleased to inform you that the special edition of ICIS Chemical Business is now published and freely available online. In association with Fecc, it contains the ICIS Top 100 Chemical Distribut...

24 April 2020 Network Plus Safety Alert A supply chain partner of Highways England has recently shared this safety alert regarding the potential risks of alcohol-based hand sanitiser. “A Gassco...

Last week OSHA (= Europe´s Occupational Safety and Health Agency, a part of the EU Commission) has issued comprehensive guidance titled “COVID-19: Back to the workplace”, which covers a variety o...

CBA RESPONSIBLE CARE AWARD WINNERS UNVEILED The Chemical Business Association (CBA) has announced the winners of its Responsible Care Awards. These annual Awards recognise excellence by CBA mem...

The International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council Federation, (IPEC Federation) announces the availability of the revised IPEC Excipient Information Package User Guide and Template (EIP) (Version 4,...

At the initiative of A.I.S.E. (the International Association for Soaps, Detergents and Maintenance Products), EBPF (the European Biocidal Products Forum, a sector group of CEFIC) and Fecc, a Cross-Ind...

The distribution sector takes safety very seriously. This is why Fecc, the European Association of Chemical Distributors, has converted the official COVID-19 containment guidance of health and safety...

In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, organizers of the Global Chemical Leasing Award have decided to prolong a deadline of the application period and change the date of the ceremony. The applic...

After careful consideration of the current COVID-19 situation and the prevailing uncertainties for the coming months the Fecc Board has made the unanimous decision to cancel our Fecc Annual Congre...

Based on the latest information available, we have collected relevant updates dedicated to our members’ operational transport management, especially current real time insight in waiting times for r...

The positive feedback from all audiences motivated us to animate our flowchart on COVID-19 recommendations to protect yourself & others. Now also available as video in our brand new web section....

The European Commission is urging countries to work together to ensure deliveries of food and medical supplies are maintained and to set up a coordinated system of health checks in response to Coronav...

Brussels, 11 March 2020. Fecc - as part of the Industry4Europe coalition - is please to receive the publication by the European Commission of its much-awaited New Industrial Strategy for Europe. Th...

We inform you that ICIS is compiling the Top 100 Chemical Distributors ranking for the 22 May 2020 issue of ICIS Chemical Business - the most popular and comprehensive listing of distributors in...

Brussels, 7 February 2020 - Fecc is pleased to announce the launch of its brand-new website. The new homepage offers a fresh, modern and smartphone-optimised design with an easy, intuitive navigation...

We are pleased to invite you to our next Annual Congress that will take place on 27-29 May 2020 in Milan, Italy, at the Marriott Hotel (Via Washington, 66, Milan). The success of and the overwhel...

We are pleased to announce that Fecc is co-sponsoring two categories of the fifth Chemical Leasing Award in 2020. The Award 2020 is jointly sponsored and supported by UNIDO (United Nations Industri...

Fecc, the European Association of Chemical Distributors in Brussels, has co-signed the Circular Plastics Alliance declaration, adding their sector to the other more than 160 public and private partne...

S&P Global Platts European Petrochemicals conference 28-29 November, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Safeguarding the future of Olefins and Aromatics through volatility: This year's S&P Globa...

The French Union of Chemical Trade (UFCC) gives updates on the current situation concerning the major fire that ravaged the Lubrizol plant on the night of 25 to 26 September. This plant classified...

Dorothee Arns, Director General of Fecc discusses the latest industry trends and updates on the chemical distribution market with ICIS journalist Will Beacham. The interview was made in the framewo...