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Last month at the IFAT Entsorga trade fair (September 13–17;…
Improved C5 use Some 106,000 ton/yr of so-called spent C5…
Kiri Holding Singapore Pvt. Ltd., owner of DyStar Colours Distribution…
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GEA Group AG (Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com) is planning to build…
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AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has underscored its ambition to…
BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Co.;…
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Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is planning to significantly…
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BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) plans to build a production…
Inspirion Ventures, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nova Chemicals Inc.…
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has…
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) plans…
Wacker Chemicals Korea Inc., a Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany;…
Air Liquide (Paris; www.airliquide.com) announces the commissioning of a new…
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) and…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced today that Elecnor S.A.…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that a…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has established a…
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Ecopetrol S.A. (Bogotá, Columbia; www.ecopetrol.com.co) has successfully started-up two new…
Ineos Technologies (Lyndhurst, U.K.; www.ineos.com) has licensed its Innovene S…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has decided to build a…
Metso (Helsinki; www.metso.com) will develop and supply an automation system…
Chiyoda Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.chiyoda-corp.com/en) today announces that Tokuyama Corp.…
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel…
The technology group The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) and…
Pulsafeeder Inc. (Rochester, N.Y.; www.pulsa.com) has acquired PeriFlo, Inc. (Loveland,…
Zarko’s challengeEvery distillation engineer west of the River Neretva is familiar…
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