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…

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…

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…

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,…

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

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…

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

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

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

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…