Outsourcing service introduced
Sigma-Aldrich Fine Chemicals has launched Chemical Strategic outsourcing (Chess), a global sourcing service with 240,000 chemicals which it claims are available in any quantity. It is intended to complement the Sigma-Aldrich current catalogue of 85,000 life science and high technology products. Chess contains over 500,000 quotations from 8,000 suppliers in 75 countries, the company says.