Last month, Pittsburgh Iron Oxides, LLC (Pirox; New Brighton, Pa.; www.piroxllc.com) was granted U.S. patent…

Flyanic LLC (Newark, N.J.; www.flyanic.com) has developed an industrial-scale and economical process for grinding cement,…

The research group of Kazuo Tajima at Kanagawa University (Yokohama, Japan; apchem2.kanagawa-u.ac.jp) have developed a…

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials (IWM; Halle, Germany; www.fraunhofer.de) have developed…

Strata Technology Ltd. (Sunbury-on-Thames, U.K.; www.stratatec.co.uk) has commercialized the Cambridge Multipass Rheometer (MPR), which was…

ADA-ES, Inc. (Littleton, Colo.; www.adaes.com) and Arch Coal, Inc. (St. Louis, Mo.), the U.S.’s second-largest…

  Graphene Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI; Troy, N.Y.; www.rpi.edu) have developed an inexpensive…

Dow Water and Process Solutions (DW&PS; Minneapolis, Minn.; www.dowwaterandprocess.com), a business unit of The Dow…

Calsmelt Pty Ltd. (Melbourne, Australia; www.calsmelt.com) is marketing a new carbothermic process for producing metallic…

A process that promises a significant reduction in the cost of removing sulfur from coal-derived…

A next-generation, carbon-enhanced membrane-bioreactor (MBR) system improves treatment of industrial wastewater with high organic content…

KBR Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced that its Downstream business unit has been awarded a contract…

Lonza (Basel, Switzerland; www.lonza.com) enters the viral based-manufacturing market today with its purchase of Vivante…

PDVSA Intevep (www.pdvsa.com) — the technological division of Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) — has…

QualaWash Holdings, LLC (QHL; Tampa, Fla.; www.qualawash.com) announces the purchase of Manfredi Special Services (MSS;…

Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) has signed an agreement with Lurgi…

Eka Chemicals AB (Bohus, Sweden; www.akzonobel.com/eka) has agreed to divest its water treatment chemicals production…

Emerson Process Management’s (Baar, Switzerland; www.emersonprocess.com) DeltaV digital automation system has been selected by Perstorp,…

The GEA Group (Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com) has received a large order over €20 million from…

LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) has successfully started up a new 320,000-ton/yr Hostalen Advanced Cascade…

KBR Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded two contracts by the Republic of Iraq Ministry…

Haldor Topsoe Inc. (Houston; www.topsoe.com) and CoaLogix Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.; www.coalogix.com) have developed a closer…

Two Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies (VWS; Saint Maurice, France; www.veoliawaterst.com) companies — N.A. Water…

SGL Group (Wiesbaden, Germany; www.sglcarbon.com) will invest within the next three years approximately €75 million into…

SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded an engineering and procurement (EP) contract…

Siemens VAI Metals Technologies (Linz, Austria, www.siemens.com/metals) has received an order from the Steel Authority of…

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will invest in a dispersions plant in Daya Bay Petrochemical Industrial…

Demand for triacetonamine derivatives (TAA derivatives) has kept rising for several years. Evonik Industries AG…

The biomass-to-liquids (BTL) demonstration plant, jointly operated by the Oxford Catalysts Group (Abingdon, Oxfordshire, U.K.; www.oxfordcatalysts.com)…

Georg Fischer AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland; www.georgfischer.com) is further strengthening its market position in China: The…

Cobalt Technologies Mountain View, Calif., www.cobalttech.com) has signed an agreement with Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.;…

Lurgi GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany; www.lurgi.com) has been awarded a contract for the world´s largest Polyamide 6…

YPF Argentina and Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) have signed two contracts for the…

German pump manufacture KSB Group (Frankenthal, Germany; www.ksb.com) has expanded the steel foundry capacities at…

Teijin Ltd. (Tokyo; www.teijin.co.jp) has acquired NanoGram Corp. (Milpitas, Calif.; www.nanogram.com) to function as a U.S.…

Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed an agreement with OXEA GmbH for the acquisition…

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has been awarded orders for Australia's Karara Iron Ore Project worth…

Solvay SA (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) and Nepes (Seoul, Korea; www.nepes.co.kr) announce that their 50/50 joint venture…

ITT Corp. (White Plains, N.Y.; www.itt.com) has finalized the acquisition of Godwin Pumps, as first announced…

Axens (Rueil Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) has signed an Asset Sale Agreement (ASA) with Canada-based Rio…

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with RB Met Engineering (Pty) Ltd. and…

My first distillation dream occurred about 30 years ago, and yet, I recall it as…

The mechanical design and material science of pH-sensor technology have evolved dramatically over the last…

When it comes to managing regulatory documents such as product labels, bills of lading, and…

To unearth the fundamental causes of vibration-related pump troubles, pump end-users and original equipment manufacturers…