Hi and welcome to our Chemical Industry Council webpage.
The Chemical Industry Council was formed as a result of the merger of the Chemical Industry Data Exchange organization (CIDX) and the Open Applications Group (OAGi).
The Chem eStandards that CIDX built are very successful in the industry, and the CIDX community began to look towards what's next. The next goal they decided to work towards was for cross-industry interoperability. The CIDX staff then researched other standards organizations they thought could best support this goal.
The recommendation was made to merge with the Open Applications Group, an existing cross industry standard, and works towards that goal. So at the end of 2008 CIDX transitioned its standards and operations to the Open Applications Group, Inc. (OAGi) and the American Chemistry Council's Chemical Information Technology Center (ChemITC), and ceased to exist as a corporation.
The Chem eStandards will continue to be supported for the foreseeable future while the Chemical Industry Council works towards their new goal.