Connect with the world's chemical experts in 'The Big Easy'. Join our Scottish Pavilion at InformexUSA 2012 - North America's leading chemicals trade fair.
Scottish Development International (SDI) is hosting a Scottish Pavilion at North America’s largest chemicals trade fair, InformexUSA. Scottish companies are invited to participate as part of the Scotland delegation.
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InformexUSA is a must-attend event for exchanging critical, high-value information within the fine, speciality and custom chemical industry. It's the premier annual tradeshow for bringing together motivated buyers and sellers of chemicals, chemical technologies and related services.
Why attend?
This event is where you should be if you're looking to use chemistry to manufacture products in the following markets:
- Agriculture
- Adhesives
- Biotech and pharmaceuticals
- Cosmetics
- Electronic chemicals
- Flavours and fragrances
- Food additives
- Household products
- Paints and coatings
- Photographic
Each year the event brings together an international mix of more than 4,000 fine and speciality chemicals professionals and 500 exhibitors.
Join us
We're hosting a Scotland Pavilion at the event. Come and visit our Stand 731 to find out more about Chemical Sciences Scotland and meet with Scotland's chemicals experts.
Scottish companies attending:
Why Scotland?
Scotland is the ideal location for your business. Independent analysis shows that Scotland is a high quality, cost effective location to establish your business project.
Access our FREE Financial Times benchmarking report on the chemical sciences industry that demonstrates Scotland's competitiveness.
Did you know?
- Chemical sciences companies in Scotland generate £9.3 billion of revenue
- The chemical sciences sector is one of Scotland's top exporters, winning overseas manufacturing exports valued at £2.7 billion a year, second only to food and drink as a sector
- The nationwide Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) gave EastCHEM research collaboration between the universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews, the best power rating of any chemistry unit in Britain
- Chemical sciences accounts for 50 percent of all industrial R&D in Scotland
- Chemical sciences accounts for 25 percent of Scottish manufacturing by turnover
- There are approximately 150 chemical sciences companies in Scotland, excluding supply chains, many of them SMEs
- The world's leading chemical/pharma companies have businesses located in Scotland, including INEOS, DSM, Ciba, GSK, Dupont, Organon, Syngenta and DOW
- Scotland attracts significant inward investment with overseas-owned chemical companies making up around 42 percent of Scotland’s chemicals industry