A new solid-state basic catalyst for forming carbon-carbon bonds has been developed by Masaru Ogura,…

This month, Borregaard Industries Ltd. (Sarpsborg, Norway; www.borregaard.com) will start up an integrated, pilot-demonstration plant…

A research team from the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, and the School of…

A catalyst in which iron atoms are complexed with the ligand pyridine diimine (PDI) has…

Double-effect coating Researchers at the Leibniz-Instutut für Neue Materialien GmbH (INM; Saarbrücken, Germany; www.inm-gmbh.de) have…

Researches at the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL; Oak Ridge, Tenn.;…

The technology surrounding a hydrolysis- and fermentation-based process that is capable of utilizing municipal solid…

A novel cold-dry process makes possible the utilization of fine form-factor silicon, such as granules…

Recovery boilers, in which pulp and paper companies burn spent black liquor from the kraft…

A new catalyst that converts H2 and CO2 into formic acid under mild conditions has…

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Cristal Global, the second largest titanium-dioxide-pigment producer…

Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is investing €75 million in the construction of a new…

Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed a long-term contract to provide Bayer MaterialScience with…

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo; www.mhi.co.jp) has been awarded a contract to perform the…

Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is investing in its production site for high-performance rubber in…

A new ethylene dimerization unit, using Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net)  AlphaButoltechnology will be installed at…

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG (Duisburg, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-steel-europe.com) has modernized the continuous annealing line at its…

UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, has opened a manufacturing and operations…

JGC Corp.(Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) has completed the construction of a demonstration plant in Indonesia for…

Sundrop Fuels, Inc. (Longmont, Colo. www.sundropfuels.com) has signed a comprehensive front end engineering and license…

Lukoil Co. (www.lukoil.com) has selected Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net)  to provide the technology license for…

Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has started up on schedule a nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR)…

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) and Grupo México have signed a contract for the delivery…

Georg Fischer (Schaffhausen, Switzerland; www.georgfischer.com) announced today the acquisition of Independent Pipe Products Inc. (IPP;…

Nation Ford Chemical (NFC; Fort Mill, S.C.; www.nationalformchem.com) has announced the acquisition of the PANA…

The Shaw Group Inc. (Baton Rouge, La.; www.shawgrp.com) has entered into a definitive agreement to…

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has completed construction for LDK Solar’s (www.ldksolar.com) polysilicon plant in…

The Saudi Arabian Ma’aden Aluminium Company has awarded Bechtel Corp. (San Francisco, Calif.; www.bechtel.com) the…

WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) has been awarded the engineering, procurement and construction management…

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has been selected by the Indian Bhushan Power & Steel…

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) announces a capacity increase of ThreAmino (L-threonine) at Evonik…

High-temperature (HT) superconductors can be manufactured much more efficiently and with less environmental impact by…

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif; www.jacobs.com) says it was awarded a contract from Evonik…

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) and the Brazilian mining company MMX Mineração e Metálicos S.A.…

The Pörner Group’s (Vienna, Austria; www.poerner.at) facility in Grimma, Germany, handed over a turn-key formalin…

GE (Atlanta, Ga.; www.ge.com) announced today the opening of GE Shenhua Gasification Technology Co., a…

Air Products (www.airproducts.com) has signed a long-term helium supply contract with National Helium LLC, a…

UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that it has signed…

KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) was awarded a general works contract for the construction of a 200-million…

  Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded a contract from Teck (Vancouver, Canada; www.teck.com)…

Failures of piping due to vibration-induced fatigue are a serious problem in the chemical process…

Reducing freshwater consumption and wastewater discharge at large petroleum-refining and chemical-production facilities can lower costs,…

Quite often, during the design of conveying systems, not enough attention is paid to the…

The growth in use of centrifugal compressors in chemical process industries (CPI) applications in recent…