Hydrogen technology developer HyperSolar, Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.) announced it is has changed the name of the Company to SunHydrogen, Inc. “For some time now, we considered adopting the SunHydrogen name,” said Tim Young, CEO of HyperSolar. “Now, as we enter…
The CEO of Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain), Josu Jon Imaz, announced two pioneering industrial decarbonization projects that the company will undertake with the participation of prominent Spanish and international partners. The facilities, to be located in the port of Bilbao…
Dow, Inc. (Midland, Mich.) and Shell Chemicals (London, U.K.) today announced a joint-development agreement to accelerate technology to electrify ethylene steam crackers, which supply chemicals used to make products that people use every day. Today’s steam crackers rely on fossil…
Tosoh Silica Corp. (Tokyo), a member of the Tosoh Group, recently established a joint venture (JV) with Namhae Chemical Corp. of South Korea. The JV plans to construct a facility to produce silica for use in fuel-efficient tires. Demand for…
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo) expanded production lines to produce vinyl ester resin (VE) and synthetic resin emulsion (EM) in the premises of Shanghai Showa Highpolymer Co., Ltd. (SSHP), a Chinese subsidiary of SDK, and has increased production of VE…
China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec), China's leading energy and chemical company, has successfully installed the world's first and largest slurry-bed residue hydrogenation reactor on June 10 in Zhoushan, China, setting China's new record of highest integral hoisting weight by…
DOMO Chemicals (Leuna, Germany; www.domochemicals.com), a leading producer of high-quality engineering materials for a diverse range of markets, has announced plans to stop and close its third line of biaxally oriented polyamide (BOPA) films from DOMO in Leuna (Germany), effective…
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (MCI; Toyko, Japan) and Prime Polymer Co., Ltd. (a join entity owned 65 percent by Mitsui Chemicals and 35 percent by Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.) have launched operations at Mitsui Prime Advanced Composites Europe B.V. (ACE), a…
Ascend Performance Materials (Houston) signed an agreement to purchase the assets of NCM (Changshu) Co., Ltd., and Tehe Engineering Plastic (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., located in Changshu Yushan High-tech Industrial Park, one of the major advanced manufacturing parks in the eastern…
Extraordinary times require extraordinary measures: For this reason, Endress+Hauser AG (Reinach, Switzerland) has released the Visual Support service application ahead of schedule during the coronavirus crisis. In the acute phase of the pandemic, customers were able to take advantage of…