Last month, Brain AG (Zwingenberg; www.brain-biotech.de) and Dechema e.V. (Frankfurt am Main, both Germany; www.dechema.de)…

Ube Industries, Ltd. (UBE; www. ube-ind.co.jp) and HighChem Co. (both Tokyo; www.highchem.co.jp) will license their…

A new method for removing hydrogen sulfide from natural gas at ambient temperatures could allow…

By the end of this year, Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corp. (Tokyo; www.asahi-kasei.co.jp) plans to complete…

  Recycling copper Steinert Elektromagnetbau GmbH (Cologne, Germany; www.steinert.de) has recently installed its first XSS-F…

Engineers at Algaeventure Systems (Marysville, Ohio; www.algaevs.com) have developed a system for separating liquids from…

Electricity generation of 240 kW has been demonstrated in a Brayton-cycle system that uses supercritical…

Last month, at the AIChE Spring Meeting in Chicago, Henry Kister, director of Fractionation Technology…

A new emulsification process, known as Smooth, has been developed by Velocys, Inc. (Columbus, Ohio;…

Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com), Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corp. (Tokyo; www.asahi-kasei.co.jp)…

Koksan PET Packaging Industry Co., a leading producer of PET preforms has signed a contract…

Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com), in consortium with Tomé Engenharia, was awarded by Petrobras a lump…

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.co.jp) has successfully established technology to produce ethanol…

KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by…

Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealis.com) has invested €7.8 million to convert an underground naphta cavern…

Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) has concluded an agreement to supply all main technology for…

Pöyry Plc’s (Vantaa, Finland; www.poyry.com) Industry Business Group has been awarded a contract for supporting…

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has signed an agreement with JGC Corp. ((Yokohama, Japan;…

Cobalt Technologies (Mountain View, Calif; www.cobalttech.com) and American Process Inc. (API; Atlanta, Ga.; www.americanprocess.com) today…

Avantium Pharma BV (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.avantium.com), a leader in solid-state research and pre-formulation for…

Effective April 1, Dorf Ketal Chemicals Pvt., Ltd. Mumbai, India; www.dorfketal.com), the world leader in…

Leverkusen, Seoul, Texas – Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is further expanding its capacities to…

Kobe Steel, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.konelco.com) announces that subsidiary Kobelco Compressors America, Inc. (KCA) is…

Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by Bluestar Adisseo Nanjing Co. a detailed engineering, procurement…

The Philippines, a newly industrialized country, experienced a record GDP growth rate of 7.3% in…

Kepco (Seoul; www.kepco.co.kr), the largest utility in South Korea, and Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu),…

Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) has been awarded the contract for the second out…

The Dow Chemical Co. (Midlands, Mich.; www.dow.com) has been recognized for its excellence in energy…

CB&I ((The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced today that Lummus Technology, a CB&I company, has been…

Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzer.com) and Assa Abloy AB (Stockholm, Sweden; www.assaabloy.com), the new majority…

Lonza (www.lonza.com) and Roche (both Basel, Switzerland; www.rochemengonline.com) have entered into a co-exclusive distribution agreement…

JGC Indonesia, JGC Corp.’s (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) Indonesian subsidiary, has been awarded a contract for…

Praxair Argentina, a subsidiary of Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) will build a new plant…

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is setting up its first project house outside Germany.…

Styron LLC (Midland, Mich.; www.styron.com) plans to expand its latex capacity at its Zhangjiagang, China…

Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) has been awarded a contract for the world’s two…

With an investment of €30 million, AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) is boosting capacity in…

Ineos Technologies (Runcorn, U.K.; www.ineos.com) has announced that its Bichlor membrane chlorine technology has been…

Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) and the Shaw Group Inc. (Baton Rouge, La.; www.shawgrp.com) have been…

Originally published in the April 1, 1985 issue, this 21 page article contains timeless recommendations…

[Originally published in the May 1995 issue of Chemical Engineering] Cyclone dust collectors have been…

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Many individuals and organizations have made important contributions to the creation of inherently safer (IS)…

Use this visual mapping method to assess functional qualifications A variety of factors — including…

It was the Dr. James R. Fair Heritage Distillation Symposium at the Chicago AIChE meeting…

Regulatory authorities around the world require continuous emissions monitoring of certain pollutants from large combustion…

The ever important aim of energy efficiency in the chemical process industries (CPI) is brought…

Several case histories illustrate the benefits of identifying and correcting poorly designed reflux and product-handling…