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Quadruple Sensor Lifetime with a Retractable Housing

A housing is not just there to hold a sensor firmly in place. With the right housing you can clean, calibrate or exchange sensors without stopping or contaminating the process. You can also dramatically increase sensor lifetime. Select the right…

Pfizer will acquire Array BioPharma

Pfizer Inc. (New York; www.pfizer.com) and Array BioPharma Inc. (Boulder, CO; www.arraybiopharma.com)  have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Pfizer will acquire Array, a commercial stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of targeted small…

Metallocene linear-LDPE produced in India

  GAIL Ltd. (New Delhi, India; www.gailonline.com) has successfully produced Metallocene linear-low density polyethylene (mLLDPE) on its world-class 400,000 MT per annum UNIPOL PE Reactor line located in Pata, Uttar Pradesh, India on 17th January 2019. GAIL's Metallocene LLDPE resin…

Partnership to develop virtual reality training on hazardous materials

HTX Labs LLC (Houston; www.htxlabs.com) the creator of enterprise immersive training simulations and technology for global business entities and government institutes, and Solvay GBU Peroxides North America (www.solvay.com/en), an industry leader in advanced materials and specialty chemicals, announced today a…

ExxonMobil and SABIC to move forward with new construction in Texas

ExxonMobil (www.exxonmobil.com) and SABIC (www.sabic.com) have decided to proceed with the construction of a chemical facility and 1.8-million metric ton ethane steam cracker in Texas. The joint-venture between ExxonMobil and SABIC, called Gulf Coast Growth Ventures, received final environmental regulatory…

Orion to expand production capacity for gas blacks

Orion Engineered Carbons S.A. (Houston; www.orioncarbons.com), a worldwide supplier of specialty and high-performance carbon black, today announced that it will expand its production capacity for gas blacks at its Cologne (Kalscheuren) plant, Germany. Orion is responding to the continuously growing…

Invista and Koch-Glitsch expand partnership to offer ExoS fuel-refining technology

INVISTA Performance Technologies (IPT; Wichita, Kan.; www.invista.com) and Koch-Glitsch (Wichita, Kan.; www.koch-glitsch.com), affiliates of Koch Industries Inc., announced today an expansion of their partnership to offer the proprietary ExoS technology to customers. The technology allows refineries to generate an olefin…

Eastman expands capacity for DEHA at Louisiana facility

Eastman Chemical Company (Kingsport, Tenn.; www.eastman.com) announced the successful completion of a de-bottlenecking of its diethylhydroxylamine (DEHA) unit in St. Gabriel, La. The debottlenecking has resulted in a 15 to 20 percent increase in capacity. “With growth in demand for…

Minimizing Explosion Risk Where Other Solutions Cannot

Minimizing Explosion Risk Where Other Solutions Cannot To run carbon disulfide recovery with the highest safety, a Chinese chemical company wanted to install a tunable diode laser (TDL) oxygen analyzer. But the line size of the pipe at the installation…

FAR Chemical will expand facility in Florida

FAR Chemical (Palm Bay, Fla.; www.far-chemical.com), a leader in scaling up and manufacturing multi-step chemical syntheses and handling highly active materials, announced today that it will expand its Palm Bay, Florida facility. FAR specializes in fine and specialty chemicals such…