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Home » Topics » Columns » Specialty Chemicals Insights

Specialty Chemicals Insights
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Jenny Gaines, senior director of Membership, Marketing & Communications for SOCMA, discusses issues related to the specialty chemicals sector.

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Focusing on Workforce Development in the Adhesives and Sealants Industry

Employee training is vital to improve core competencies and increase productivity and capabilities across all sectors.
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Jennifer Abril
May 18, 2022
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For both specialty chemicals and adhesives and sealants, quality training is paramount. Ensuring the safety of employees and their ability to successfully operate equipment is the number-one priority. In these unprecedented times, workforce development issues seem to compound each other, making onboarding new operators and training long-term employees a necessary and integral part of a chemical plant’s success—in safety and in business.


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Connections, Solutions Take Center Stage at Specialty & Custom Chemicals Show

The Specialty & Custom Chemicals Show will feature more than 165 exhibitors, 39 Exhibitor Showcases, and a series of educational sessions focusing on pressing issues that manufacturers are facing both inside and outside their fence lines.
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Jenny Gaines
February 15, 2022
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With business booming and companies reaching capacity limits, customers and suppliers throughout the specialty chemical value chain are looking to make business-critical connections in 2022. SOCMA offers that opportunity and more at the Specialty & Custom Chemicals Show, which will be held February 28-March 2, at the Omni in Fort Worth, Texas.
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