Standardized steam-methane-reforming (SMR) reactor units recently commercialized by Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) allow direct…

A group of Singapore researchers have reported a new approach to induce the coiling of…

Photos: Teijin Group Toho Tenax Co. (Tokyo; www.tohotenax.com), the main company of the Teijin Group’s…

A plasma-based process has achieved a 30% yield of methanol from methane in a microreactor…

Westec Environmental Solutions, LLC (WES; Chicago, Ill.; www.wes-worldwide.com) has developed a gas-liquid absorption technology that…

Enerkem Inc. (Montreal, Can-ada; www.enerkem.com) has broken ground in Edmonton, Alberta, on what is said…

Plastic derived from corn, used mostly for bottles and cups, costs about 20% more than…

Graphene Laboratories Inc. (Reading, Mass.; www.graphenelab.com) and CVD Equipment Corp. (Ronkonkoma, N.Y.; www.cvdequipment.com) recently announced…

Last month at the IFAT Entsorga trade fair (September 13–17; Munich, Germany), Süd-Chemie AG (Munich;…

Improved C5 use Some 106,000 ton/yr of so-called spent C5 fraction is generated at Mitsui…

Kiri Holding Singapore Pvt. Ltd., owner of DyStar Colours Distribution GmbH and DyStar Colours Deutschland…

Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard, the Netherlands; www.stamicarbon.com), the licensing and IP Center of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A.…

Specialty chemicals company Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is to expand annual production capacity at…

GEA Group AG (Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com) is planning to build a separator production facility in…

Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) started a new production unit for high-quality, black iron-oxide pigments…

AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has underscored its ambition to double revenue in China within…

BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Co.; Franklin Lakes, N.J.: www.bd.com), and…

Metso (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) will supply a new biomass-fired power boiler, utilizing bubbling fluidized-bed technology,…

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is planning to significantly increase its silica (precipitated silicic…

Yara Praxair (www.yarapraxair.com) — a 50-50 joint venture between Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) and…

ExxonMobil (Fairfax, Va.; www.exxonmobil.com) has completed commissioning of new units to produce ultra-low sulfur diesel…

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) plans to build a production facility for customer specific antioxidant…

Inspirion Ventures, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nova Chemicals Inc. (Moon Township, Pa.; www.novachem.com) and…

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has signed a contract with Anhui…

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) plans to construct a new 180-mile…

Wacker Chemicals Korea Inc., a Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) subsidiary, is acquiring the…

Air Liquide (Paris; www.airliquide.com) announces the commissioning of a new high-pressure and high-purity gaseous oxygen…

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) and Matheson (www.mathesongas.com), a member of…

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced today that Elecnor S.A. (Madrid, Spain; www.elecnor.es) has awarded…

Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Power…

Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has established a joint venture (JV) with LG…

DSM Nutritional Products GmbH (Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany; www.dsmnutritionalproducts.com), a subsidiary of the Dutch company Royal DSM…

Ecopetrol S.A. (Bogotá, Columbia; www.ecopetrol.com.co) has successfully started-up two new units for the production of…

Ineos Technologies (Lyndhurst, U.K.; www.ineos.com) has licensed its Innovene S Process for the manufacture of…

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has decided to build a specialty polymers compounding plant at…

Metso (Helsinki; www.metso.com) will develop and supply an automation system to AW-Energy Ltd.’s (Vantaa, Finland;…

Chiyoda Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.chiyoda-corp.com/en) today announces that Tokuyama Corp. (Tokyo; www.tokuyama.co.jp) group has awarded…

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2010…

The technology group The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) and Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark;…

Pulsafeeder Inc. (Rochester, N.Y.; www.pulsa.com) has acquired PeriFlo, Inc. (Loveland, Ohio; www.periflo.com) a leading provider…

Every distillation engineer west of the River Neretva is familiar with the work of Professor…

Improvements to the performance of basic, regulatory control systems have a great return on investment…

Because the global chemical process industries (CPI) encompass so many varied industry segments — including…

These days, there seem to be more reasons than ever to change feedstocks throughout the…

Thermal insulation systems can provide several functions on piping and equipment in industrial facilities. Some…