A process that uses magnetic nanoparticles, coated with a reactive material, to clean up contaminated…

GE Power & Water (Trevose, Pa.; www.ge.com) has introduced a novel, dual-pronged approach to corrosion…

New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO; Kawasaki City; www.nedo.go.jp) and Panasonic Corp. (Osaka,…

Ammonia is a promising candidate for scrubbing carbon dioxide from fluegas, since each ammonia molecule…

On the heels of its successful scaleup of bio-butanol, Cobalt is looking for pathways to…

Freestanding nanowires exhibit ultrahigh elastic-strain limits (of up to 7%) and yield strengths. However, it…

Squalane, an emollient used in cosmetics, will be the first product of a biotechnology pilot…

NEDO  and Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo, www.hitachi.com) have developed a new combustion technology that could reduce…

  ODC for Cl2 production Last month, ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund; www.uhde.eu) and Bayer MaterialScience…

In April development tests, Cobalt Technologies (Cobalt; Mountain View, Calif; www.cobalttech.com) produced n -butanol at…

To comply with increasingly stringent regulations for NOx emissions, operators of industrial plants often turn…

Nikkiso Co. (Tokyo, Japan) the manufacturer of fluid control technologies, has acquired Geveke B.V. (Amsterdam,…

The U.S. Energy Department (DOE; Washington, D.C.; www.energy.gov) today recognized the nation’s first commercial-scale cellulosic…

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced today that it was awarded a contract by Freeport-McMoRan…

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is building a new Ultramid polymerization plant with a capacity…

EuroChem (Moscow, Russia; www.eurochem.ru), Russia’s largest mineral fertilizer producer and a top ten agrochemical company…

Innovnano (Coimbra, Portugal; www.innovnano-materials.com), a manufacturer of high-performance ceramic powders, has invested in a high-tech,…

The specialty chemicals group Altana (Wesel, Germany; www.altana.com) has signed a definite agreement to acquire…

Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed a long-term contract with BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany;…

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is now significantly expanding precipitated silica capacity at its…

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

Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) today announced the startup of its state-of-the-art, 135 million standard…

Siemens Industry Inc., USA (www.siemens.com/metals), and consortium partner Midrex Technologies, Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.; www.midrex.com) received…

DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) has launched production at its probiotic blending and packaging facility in…

KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) today announced that it has been selected by Total to utilize KBR’s…

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Sojitz Corp. of Japan have received an order from…

Teijin Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.teijin.co.jp) has developed a new type of meta-aramid fiber offering the…

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

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.marietecnimont.it) announces that several contracts and variations have been awarded…

WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) has been awarded a contract by Sasol North America,…

The Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) microchannel-reactor technology developed by the Oxford Catalysts Group (Abingdon, U.K.; www.oxfordcatalysts.com) and…

Together with its Westphalia-based parent company Haver & Boecker (www.haverboecker.com) and machine builder Möllers, Feige…

The plant engineering company Uhde Inventa-Fischer (Domat/Ems, Switzerland; www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) has received an order from SK…

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will increase its global capacities for producing the chemical intermediate…

Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) recently started up the world’s largest helium purification and liquefaction…

Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has entered into a definitive agreement to form a joint…

On May 9, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels surpassed 400 ppm in Mauna Loa, Hawaii for…

Plant Watch Uhde Inventa-Fischer to build commercial-scale Nofia plant June 12, 2013 — Uhde Inventa-Fischer…

Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) says it has fully acquired GPN SA from the Total…

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) plans to build a new state-of-the-art facility to manufacture vanillin…

Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by the Hyundai-Wison consortium a significant contract to supply…

Rotary valves are used almost universally in pneumatic conveying systems. They serve three main functions:…

For most engineering-procurement-construction (EPC) projects in the chemical process industries (CPI), the data sheets developed…

Polymer-based piping systems offer a number of advantages, along with some limitations, compared to metallic…

Polyethylene (PE) is the world’s largest-volume commodity polymer. Along with high-density (HDPE) and low-density (LDPE)…

Security of SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) and other industrial control systems (ICSs) is…

When considering project proposals for new processes in the chemical process industries (CPI), capital equipment…