Since the rise of commercial chemical manufacturing in the 1940s, the environment has been plagued by a growing concentration ...

In 2014, the amines specialist Taminco paid $190 million for Kemira’s formic acid business, which included a plant in Oulu, Finland. Later that year, Eastman Chemical purchased Taminco.

In 1829, the pioneering German chemist Justus von Liebig so named it because his research on the compound concentrated on horse urine. Hippuric acid also occurs in avocadoes (Persea americana) and ...