Sixteen young people embarked on a new phase in their lives at the end of August. They began their vocational training in nine different units at the CPH Group’s operating sites in Perlen (Switzerland) and Müllheim (Germany).

Two hundred years, seven generations, many successes and a few setbacks, too: Matthias Wiesmann has told the “chemical” story of the Schnorf Family in the series Swiss Pioneers of Business and Technology.

The Perlamed BLISTair single-use inhaler has already earned a number of awards and distinctions. And these now include the world’s most prestigious innovation award.

The CPH Group celebrated the 200th anniversary of its foundation in style with a gala dinner followed with a major public party on its original Uetikon (Zurich) site on Saturday 26 May. And thousands came in the excellent weather to join in the festivities.

The 46th Ordinary General Meeting of CPH Chemie + Papier Holding AG approved all the items on the meeting agenda by overwhelming majorities. These included a reduction in the nominal value of the company’s share capital from CHF 30 million to CHF 12 million.

An exhibition at the Uetikon Museum tells the story of the town's chemicals factory since its foundation in 1818.

Some 160 different vocational training courses were on offer at the ZEBI Central Swiss Education Fair. And Perlen Papier made its début this year with its own fair stand.

Perlen Packaging's revolutionary BLISTair single-use powder inhaler has already won multiple reputed packaging awards.

With growing demand for medical oxygen, Zeochem is expanding its capacities for producing the molecular sieves used for oxygen purification.

In addition to recovered paper, the manufacture of paper also requires fresh wood, which must always be available and in large quantities.

The 200 000-square-metre former production site of the Chemistry Division in Canton Aargau is being prepared for new land use.

Perlen Papier AG has been taking water from the adjacent River Reuss via a conduit since the factory opened in 1873. A new weir is now required.

With its PERLATOP line, Perlen Packaging has taken a further major step in enhancing the environmental credentials of its packaging technologies.

Perlen Packaging supplies various medicine packaging operations of Boehringer Ingelheim all over the world. And it now does so from its new Chinese manufacturing facility.

The Chengdu Shenleng Liquefaction Plant and Jiangsu ALSIO Technology have been working together for over ten years now, with excellent results.

Techairs is ALSIO's most important Chinese customer. The engineering company uses only ALSIO molecular sieves when planning new facilities.