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Chemical business, buyers and suppliers


Useful resources covering chemical companies, products, catalogues, equipment, conferences and exhibitions

Suppliers

Links to supplier information

Link icon ChemIndustry.com
A comprehensive directory and search engine for chemical and related industry professionals.

Link icon WWW Chemicals
Contains information about chemical producers and suppliers, MSDSs, structures, chemicals and chemical equipment for sale.

Link icon ChemExper Chemical Directory
Searchable by structure and chemical property, contains information about chemical producers and suppliers, MSDSs, structures, and chemicals for sale.

Link icon OPD Chemical Buyers Directory
Contains chemical industry news, views, comments, company and product information and chemical profiles.

Link icon ChemConnect: chemical suppliers directory and exchange
A virtual market place for buyers, suppliers and vendors of chemicals.

Link icon Chemicals Technology
Contains, among other resources: information on current projects, an industry and products and services guide in the field of chemical technology.

Link icon Sigma Aldrich
Produces and sells a broad range of biochemicals, organic and inorganic chemicals and related products. Parent company of Sigma, Aldrich, Fluka and Supelco.

Link icon Chemical Register
Free worldwide supplier database with 15,000 companies and 15,000 products. Database can be browsed and searched by company/chemical name and CAS Registry Number.

Link icon Kompass
Detailed details of supplier information for specialised chemicals.

Link icon Bio-Farma
Provides a directory to many services useful to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and drug discovery industries including building blocks, carbohydrate synthesis, chemistry software, information products and combichem libraries. Search engine has word, molecular formula and structure searching capabilities.

Link icon Linscott's Directory
A popular biopharmaceutical suppliers directory for e.g. antibodies, assays, cytokines, enzymes, recombinant proteins, neuropeptides and custom services

Link icon Japan Chemical edata Search
Details chemical producers and suppliers in Japan.

Link icon Indian Chemical Portal
Gives an insight into the Indian Chemical Industry with the latest in trade offers, events and organisations.

Link icon China Chemical Network
A resource for sourcing chemicals from China.

Link icon BuyersGuideChem
A directory of chemicals and chemical suppliers which is searchable by service and application as well as compound names and identifiers

Link icon Chemical Suppliers Directory
A directory of companies providing products and services for drug discovery industry including custom synthesis, combinatorial library screening. Features a property explorer which has a structure searching facility.

Link icon Ali Baba
A Chinese e-commerce company providing an online business platform for importers, exporters, buyers and sellers.

Link icon Equipment Exchange and People Finder
This web board provides you, as an RSC member, with the opportunity to reach a wide audience and lend your specialist skills or equipment to other RSC members. Similarly, if you are looking for a particular item of equipment, here's your chance to find someone to help you.

Link icon Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
Provides information on the producers and suppliers of many products on the US market.

Organisations and other useful information

Links to organisations and other useful information

Link icon Links for Chemists
Hosted at the University of Liverpool's chemistry department, is one of the UK's largest and most comprehensive indexes of chemistry resources. It lists all UK chemistry departments and a growing number of international chemistry departments, as well as providing links to chemical companies, chemical societies, funding bodies and a wide range of chemical information sites.

Link icon ChemDex
This site hosts a number of important www packages including ChemDex, a well organised and extensive list of world-wide chemistry sites with a good company and business section. This site also links to WebElements, a periodic table linked to physical property data.

Link icon SRI Chemical & Health Business Services
Contains links to Chemical & Health Business Services provided by SRI Consulting.

Link icon Yahoo! Business & Economy Companies: Scientific: Chemistry
This section of Yahoo! contains information on books, chemical products, chromatography, environmental laboratory analysis, instruments, isotopes, polymers, software and spectroscopy.

Link icon ICISsearch
Database of chemical product and service details searchable by CAS number from ICIS (International Chemical Information Services)

Link icon CEFIC The European Chemical Industry Council
The European Chemical Industry homepage has good links to business data.

Link icon CAROL World
Free access to company annual reports.

Link icon CoreIndex.com
Chemicals international trade lead portal designed to provide trade leads for USA sellers and buyers of chemical products, wholesalers, distributors, manufacturers, as well as government agencies.

Magazines

Links to publishers websites of magazines in the industry

Link icon ChemicalWeek
Chemical Business Journal

Link icon Chemistry & Industry
A chemistry magazine from the Society of Chemical Industry.

Link icon ESPICOM Pharmaceutical Intelligence
Pharmaceutical market reports

Link icon Chemical Market Reporter
Reed Magazine

Link icon European Chemical News
Reed Magazine

Link icon SCRIP Reports
Pharmaceutical and biotechnology market reports