The 8th of March marks International Women’s Day, a day to commemorate the achievements of women and bring attention to the drive for gender equality. To mark this year’s International Women’s Day, we’re showcasing one of our most prominent female employees, Dr Brigitta Simons, Country Sales Manager at Jacobi GmbH.
Price Increase Announcement – Effective January 1, 2022 As the costs to produce Ion Exchange Resins (IER) have continued to rise during the past 6 months, we have had to make the decision to implement a general base price increase ranging from 10-20% for all IER shipped on – or after – January 1, 2022,…
Dear customers & partners, Europe in many European countries, COVID19 incident rates are going up (again) with an accelerated pace. This is a concern as this may lead to lockdowns. Germany is facing an incident rate of > 1.000 in many regions and hospitalization rates have reached critical levels. IC patients are transferred to hospitals…
At Jacobi, we are driven by sustainability. We frequently speak about our long-term aim, which is to become the world’s most sustainable supplier of carbon products, in this article we caught up with our CEO to hear how sustainability has spread throughout the company.
Dear customers & partners, Port congestions causing shipping delays and longer transit times adding to the logistics disruptions! Since the last update 2 weeks ago, there has been a small improvement in making shipments out of India and Sri Lanka to North America but big delays continue and are made worse by inland haulage delays…
Dear customers & partners, Manufacturing This week, I’d like to start with good news. After the Ben Tre region in Vietnam lifted its restrictions, we are gradually coming to “new normal” operating conditions at all our Asian plants. Thankfully, we have resumed nearly full operations in Vietnam and 95% of our team members have been…
Dear customers and partners, Manufacturing Our Vietnam operation continues to recover. We are in the process of starting up the kilns which were idled (50%) for the past 9 weeks and aim to be fully operational again in the coming weeks. The situation for our employees is almost back to ‘normal’ with only 5 people…
Dear customers and partners, Manufacturing Great news from Vietnam! During the past 8 weeks, 92 employees of our plant in Ben Tre volunteered to live in a hotel close the plant and continue working at the plant in full isolation. The rules set by the authorities did not allow them to go home to see…
Dear customers & partners, Chemically Activated Wood-based Carbon Recently, we have seen a sudden and very steep cost increase for producing our Colorsorb HP series of chemically activated wood-based carbon. This is due to a 100% cost increase of yellow phosphorous, feed material for phosphoric acid which is a key raw material to produce this…
Announcement Price increase as of September 1 for all Coal-based GAC and PAC from China Please note that prices will be increased for all direct activated Granular Activated Carbon (GAC), Re-agglomerated GAC and Powder Activated Carbon (PAC) up to 15% as of September 1, 2021. The price for coal-based pellets is scheduled to be increased…
