This Fall, Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo; http://www.sumitomo-chem.co.jp) will begin shipping samples of Ilumio, a new…

Small-scale, factory-built nuclear power plants could dramatically reduce construction times and capital costs for nuclear-based…

Foams based on corn starch may one day be substituted for polystyrene foams through technology…

Retarded polymerization A latent-acid catalyst that can be added to highly reactive pre-polymer resins enabling…

Two sulfur-treatment technologies are being used together for the first time in a facility that…

A biological wastewater-treatment technology can reduce sludge by 50% or more in some situations compared…

Researchers from the University of Sydney (Australia; http://www.usyd.edu.au) are developing structures, analogous to some sea…

Both carbon dioxide and sulfur components are removed from fluegas in a reversible process being…

An in-situ method that removes mercury from soil, sludge and other industrial waste has been…

Nippon Shokubai Co. (Nisshoku; Osaka, Japan; http://www.shokubai.co.jp) is developing a process for making acrylic acid…

Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology (IME; Aachen, Germany; http://www.ime.fraunhofer.de)…

The first commercially available, pentacene-based, organic semiconductor material is sufficiently soluble to render it amenable…

Federal and state government officials today joined executives from American Electric Power (AEP; Columbus, Ohio;…

Aquatech Corp. (Canonsburg, Pa.; www.aquatech.com) has been awarded a contract to design and supply a…

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) today announces that its sodium bicarbonate production capacity extension at its…

Outotec Oyj (Helsinki, Finland; www.outotec.com) and Hindustan Dorr-Oliver Ltd. (HDO; Mumbai, India; www.hdo.in) have signed a…

Al-Waha Petrochemical Co. (Dubai, UAE) has successfully started up its new complex in Al-Jubail Industrial…

The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) today announced it will build and commission a state-of-the-art…

Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) today announced it is expanding its vinyl acetate/ethylene (VAE) manufacturing…

Gazprom Komplektatsiya LLC (a Gazprom subsidiary) has launched an investment program to increase the octane…

The ChemPro Group, LLC (Boonton, N.J.; www.thechemprogroup.com) and Mo-Fuel (Rural Bio-waste; Sikeston, Missouri), have formed…

Uhde Inventa-Fischer GmbH (Berlin, Germany and Domat/Ems, Switzerland www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) has won a contract for a textile-grade…

Alstom (Paris, France; www.power.alstom.com) and major Canadian power company TransAlta —along with their partners in…

Siemens AG (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) is to acquire the solar thermal power company Solel Solar…

Cegelec (Paris, France; www.cegelec.com) has been awarded an EPC contract worth over $40 million to…

The Catalysts Business Line of Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.de) and Solvias AG (Basel,…

Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com/energy) has been selected as the capture technology partner for the…

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.de) has agreed to acquire Indianapolis, Indiana-based Eli Lilly and Co’s…

GEA Group AG (Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com) has won orders for a Heller Indirect Dry Cooling…

Foster Wheeler AG’s (FWC; Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded…

IRPC Plc. (Bangkok; www.irpc.co.th), Thailand’s leading integrated petrochemical company it is allying with GE Energy…

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has struck an agreement with Huatai Group of China to establish…

Among the most pressing concerns for the chemical process industries (CPI) are weathering the global…

0 0 0 Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com/energy) has received an order from Vietnam for…

Evonik Industries AG (Essen; germany; www.evonik.de) has expanded its product range for high-molecular-weight plasticizer alcohols…

Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM; Decatur, Ill.; www.admworld.com) announced today the expansion of its European…

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany;www.evonik.de) and Cristal Material Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan) have formed a new…

Veolia Water is awarded new contract for water treatment and reuse in Brazil September 15,…

Lurgi GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany; www.lurgi.com) has delivered, in less that 29 months, a new hydrogen unit…

Süd-Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.sud-chemie.com) is substantially expanding its position in the Brazilian growth market…

Household items, such as breakfast cereal, flour, corn starch and sugar are so common that…

Compressed gas cylinders are widely used in research, pilot plant, laboratory and small-scale manufacturing and…

Thermal mass flowmeters provide advantages over other options for metering the consumption of natural gas…

Bag filters for industrial applications have been in existence longer and are considered by some…