About chemXplore

chemXplore was built by people who lived the problem. Cees Verhagen and Corné Verbruggen founded Darueber BV in 2013 as a specialist consultancy for the chemical industry. Working close to the sector's data day to day, they kept running into the same gap: the information that mattered was real, but scattered, unstructured, and hard to follow. In 2024 they launched chemXplore as a standalone product to close it, and have kept developing it actively ever since.

More than a decade of working in and around the industry sits behind the product. That history shapes what we track, how we structure it, and which developments we judge worth surfacing.

We monitor hundreds of sources across the industry and read what they publish. Relevant items are structured into a consistent model — linked to the companies, plants, projects, substances, and locations they concern — and organised through a taxonomy of sectors, topics, substances, and news types. That structure is what turns a stream of announcements into something you can search and follow.

The same structured data underpins every product, from the Weekly newsletter to the Alpha research platform.