LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) announced the startup of its fifth production line at its Knapsack, Germany site, making Knapsack the world’s largest polypropylene (PP) compounding facility. The new total annual production capacity for the site is more than 200,000…
Global engineering and technology company Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.; www.emerson.com) announced yesterday that it has established a dedicated organization focused on digital transformation technologies and programs. The new Digital Transformation business – announced at the annual Emerson Global Users Exchange…
To accelerate promising artificial intelligence (AI) applications in diverse research fields, the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL; Oak Ridge, Tenn.; www.ornl.gov) has established a labwide AI Initiative, and its success will help to ensure U.S. economic…
The Chemical Activity Barometer, a leading economic indicator created by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), was up 0.1 percent in September on a three-month moving average (3MMA) basis following a 0.1 percent decline in August and gains…
Reflecting a rebound of manufacturing production, U.S. specialty chemicals market volumes rose 0.2 percent in August after falling 0.1 percent in July, rising 0.2 percent in June and a generally weak early 2019, according to the American Chemistry Council (ACC;…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) announces an agreement with Methanex Corp. (Vancouver, B.C.; www.methanex.com) to supply oxygen, nitrogen and utilities to its upcoming methanol plant expansion project in Geismar, La. To serve Methanex and its other customers in the industrial…
The National Alliance for Water Innovation (www.nawihub.org), a partnership of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL; Oak Ridge, Tenn.; www.ornl.gov), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab; Berkeley, Calif.; www.lbl.gov), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL; Golden, Colo.;…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and DuPont Safety & Construction (DuPont; Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) today announced that the companies have signed an agreement where BASF will sell its ultrafiltration-membrane business to DuPont. The divesture includes the shares of inge GmbH,…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) and ORLEN Południe, a member of Orlen Group (Płock, Poland; www.orlen.pl), which is a leader in the fuels and energy markets and the largest player in Central and Eastern Europe, today signed a license agreement on…
Krohne GmbH & Co. KG (Duisburg, Germany; www.krohne.com) and Samson AG (Frankfurt am Main, Germany; www.samson.de) introduced the joint venture (JV) Focus-On (Dordrecht, the Netherlands; www.focus-on-process.com) at a press conference on September 19 in Frankfurt. Focus-On is a newly founded…