Custom Chemicals International

the world are doing it,” he exclaims about probiotics. A world of change Soden talks of years of having to ride the waves of governmental change and regulation with the most recent being activated on 1 January of this year. To be specific, there was a big, worldwide change requiring the har- monising of global labelling. Namely, the UN Globally Harmonized System (GHS) of classification and labelling of chemicals, which has had a profound effect on safety and compliance initia- tives around the globe, including those of CCI. The costs have been vast, but it’s not something CCI can’t handle. “We started preparing for this in 2015, because we knew it was com- ing and we knew we had to be ready for it. We’ve been having to deal with these kinds of things for years. We have costly waste water licenses with councils and we deal with the require- ment of the environmental protection agency. When we started out, the EPA didn’t exist at all.” The CCI is firm in its compliance and safety measures, and know that the way forward means abiding by these measures and keeping their clients in the know as to what is going on and what needs to be worked on. The future is probiotic As our interview draws to a close, Soden is keen to once again highlight how much he believes in probiotics for not only his business, but for the fu- ture of chemical innovation at large. Much of the firm’s capital investment has gone into the creation of these pro- biotic products, and they’ve been us- ing and creating many environmentally friendly including soluble plastics and soluble toiletries for the portable toi- let market. These may seem like small things but could change the whole re- ality of how things are done. “You’ve got to add something dif- ferent in order to make some money out of it,” Soden exclaims. “That’s the name of the game.” The main direction of business for CCI at the moment is clearly innovation. Soden wants innovation in probiotic products to eventually kill bugs in hos- pitals that antibiotics cannot, and for it to be used even in the place of disin- fectants and chlorines – and alas, all this from something commonly drunk to improve stomach digestion. With the firm’s distributors looking more and more to snap these products up, CCI’s direction is certainly looking to be the future of chemical advance.