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Background: The Chemidex® Cybrary™ (www.chemidex.com) is a FREE internet-based search engine designed specifically for use by chemists and formulators. It accelerates the exchange of technical information between chemical suppliers and formulated-product manufacturers. The Chemidex Cybrary is the chemical industry’s largest technical document repository, providing continuously updated raw material technical data sheets, MSDS, starting point formulations and product bulletins from over 800 of the world’s leading chemical companies. An expedited sample request from each of these companies is a mouse click away. As a unique tool containing over 200,000 technical data sheets, Chemidex has garnered the enthusiasm of chemists throughout the world and earned the trust of the chemical companies.

Presentation: The presentation will focus on the Chemidex Cybrary’s functionality, which is built around five powerful search engines. These proprietary engines enable the formulator to locate raw materials by company name, product name, trade name, product type, INCI name, as well as physical property criteria, end-use application, starting point formulation and starting point formulation performance criteria. Requesting samples and communicating directly with technical experts from multiple suppliers is now as easy as a click of a button. With the answers less than three clicks away Chemidex speeds formulators’ product development and reduces the time-to-market for new products.

The Chemidex Cybrary was introduced to the marketplace in 1997. Chemidex’s first market was the Paint and Coatings industry. Today, the Chemidex Cybrary serves the Paint and Coatings, Adhesive and Sealants, Graphic Arts and Ink, Food and Beverage, Personal Care and Cosmetics, and Household, Industrial, and Institutional Cleaners industries in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. Chemidex’s supplier list is comprehensive, including such industry leaders as 3M, Akzo Nobel, BASF, Ciba, Cognis, Croda, Dow Chemical, Rhodia, Rohm and Haas and Stepan.

Tim Dillon is the West Coast Area Sales Manager for Chemidex. Tim graduated from San Diego State University in 2002 with a B.S. degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Information Technology. Following graduation, Tim began his career as an Account Executive for Wilchem and Cognis Oleochemicals on the West Coast simultaneously.

In April of 2006, Tim joined Chemidex to continue building this search engine for formulators. The company currently serves 6 markets globally in more than 150 countries. Chemidex is the market leader in web-based marketing, advertising, product information retrieval and sales lead generation service for the chemical and life science industries. The Company’s vision is to transform the product formulation process by combining state-of-the-art Internet, database and search technologies with an intimate understanding of the needs of chemical and life science industry professionals.

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This presentation will provide you with an overview of the sweeping chemical safety and environmental regulation recently enacted in Europe, called Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals, or REACH. The impact of this new regulation on the cosmetics industry, including both positive and negative aspects, will be reviewed. In addition, you will gain insight on what your company can do to prepare for REACH. Sensient Cosmetic Technologies/LCW’s activities will be discussed as an example of how one supplier is responding to REACH.

Dr. Carol Landi was introduced as Technical Director for Sensient Cosmetic Technologies / LCW on May 9, 2005. Her experience includes 11 years at FMC Corporation, primarily in product, process and applications development for formulated ingredients derived from natural materials. At FMC, Dr. Landi worked as a Research Engineer and directed new technology development as Technology Manager identifying new applications for the personal care / cosmetics markets. She has a Ph.D from Rutgers University and a B.S. from Virginia Tech, both degrees in chemical engineering.