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Chemicals

Chemicals Unit

The Chemicals Unit is a sector specific unit within BERR, working with industry to help promote improvements in productivity and competitiveness. The Unit represents the interests of the UK chemicals industry (excluding pharmaceuticals) along with plastics and rubber processing.

There are specific responsibilities for aspects of the chemicals, plastics and rubber industries and cross-sector issues such as better regulation. This site offers team contact information and an overview of current major issues.

We work with individual companies, trade associations, Regional Development Agencies, and other stakeholders to:

• build effective relationships with key companies and intermediaries
• develop high quality analysis and understanding of these sectors
• develop and take forward with the industry agreed strategies on raising commercial and environmental performance through manufacturing best practices, access to a world-class science base, and enhancing the skills of its employees
• champion the industry's legitimate interests in Government and elsewhere, to ensure that regulatory and fiscal policy offers an optimum balance between environment, health, safety and competitiveness promoting opportunities for investment
• help the industry compete in a global environment and ensure there is fair competition with foreign companies.