A coalition of 11 companies have partnered to form Hydrogen Forward, an initiative focused on advancing hydrogen development in the United States. The founding members – Air Liquide, Anglo American plc, Bloom Energy, CF Industries, Chart Industries, Cummins Inc., Hyundai,…
Elkem (Oslo, Norway) has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with Vow ASA (Oslo, Norway)’s wholly owned subsidiary Vow Industries with the aim of reducing fossil CO2-emissions from the production of silicon and ferrosilicon products for the global market. The…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium) and technology company Leonardo announced the launch of a joint research lab dedicated to the development of novel composite materials and production processes critical for the future of the aerospace industry. This collaboration represents an important milestone in…
An international private-equity consortium consisting of BroadPeak Global LP, Asia Green Fund (AGF) and The Saudi Arabian Industrial Investments Company (Dussur) announced that they have signed a definitive agreement whereby the Group will purchase the Clean Technologies business of DuPont…
Hengyi Industries Sdn. Bhd., has selected Univation Technologies’ (Houston) UNIPOL PE Process for its world-scale 600,000-ton/yr polyethylene (PE) plant to be located in Palau Muara Besar, Brunei. The new PE plant will be integrated into a larger refinery and petrochemicals…
A network of regional hydrogen technology clusters has today been unveiled across Australia, as part of a drive to establish a nationwide hydrogen cluster. Spearheaded by National Energy Resources Australia (NERA), the national cluster (which would operate as a virtual…
Lukoil (Moscow, Russia) has commissioned a new production complex at its Volgograd Refinery. Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Southern Federal District Vladimir Ustinov, Russian Minister of Energy Nikolai Shulginov, Governor of the Volgograd region Andrei Bocharov and President of LUKOIL…
Stepan Co. (Northfield, Ill.) announced that it has purchased Invista's (Wichita, Kan.) aromatic polyester polyol business and associated assets. Included in the transaction are two manufacturing sites, one in Wilmington, NC (United States) and the other in Vlissingen (the Netherlands), and…
Conventional adhesives, such as epoxy, are designed to cure using moisture, heat and light. Curing is necessary to cross-link and bond the glue with the two secured surfaces as the glue crystallizes and hardens. Now, scientists from Nanyang Technological University…
This column is based on “Butyl Acrylate Production from Acrylic Acid and Butanol – Cost Analysis,” a report published by Intratec. It can be found at: www.intratec.us/analysis/butyl-acrylate-production-cost. Butyl acrylate, the butyl ester of acrylic acid, is among the most industrially…