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Perstorp’s expertise in Ullmann’s Encyclopedia
When Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry need writers, they turn to the most qualified experts in the world. When it comes to polyhydric alcohols the obvious choice is Perstorp.
During the past five decades Perstorp has been a major producer of polyols. The production of Pentaerythritol (Penta) started in 1953. In 1957 Trimethylolpropane (TMP) was added to the portfolio and since then many more.
– It is safe to say that we have gained reliable expertise over the years, says Stefan Lundmark, Principal Scientist of Perstorp and also Adjunct Professor at the Department of Polymer & Materials Technology at the University of Lund.
An honorable assignment
Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry is one of the main sources of reference for chemists. It contains basic encyclopedic data - physical properties, synthetic methods, applications, production volumes and much more - about all aspects of industrial chemistry.
– Our assignment was to revise the chapter about polyhydric alcohols, which was last reviewed about ten years ago. We also added a few new articles to the chapter, Lundmark says.
– Since it was an extensive assignment, I asked three colleagues to help me – Kent Sörensen from Sweden and Esko Karvinen and Juha Lehtonen from our former R&D center in Finland. We spent four months searching different databases to find new scientific publications and patents. We also got a lot of help from colleagues regarding production volumes for the different chemicals. It was truly a joint effort, Lundmark explains.
The revised chapter was published in the online version of the seventh edition in July 2008.
Chemists’ first choice since 1914
The German Professor Fritz Ullmann published the first edition of the encyclopedia in 1914. The fifth edition, in 1985, was the first to be published in English.
Today many users prefer the electronic versions of the encyclopedia. Thanks to advanced search functions, finding the right information among the eight hundred articles, fifteen thousand tables and twenty-five thousand figures that in the printed version add up to thirty thousand pages, is much more convenient.
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