The American Chemistry Council’s (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) Global Chemical Production Regional Index (Global CPRI) ended the third quarter by rising 0.3% on a three-month-moving-average basis. The Global CPRI data are discussed in the ACC’s latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic…
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) celebrated the opening of its cellulosic biofuel facility in Nevada, Iowa, with a ceremony including Iowa Gov. Terry Brandstad and many other dignitaries. This biorefinery is the world’s largest cellulosic ethanol plant, with the capacity to…
Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. (Woodbridge, Ill.; www.elevance.com), a company that creates novel specialty chemicals from natural oils, has announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Tony Parnell as the company’s Chief Executive Officer. Parnell succeeds K’Lynne Johnson, who has…
The preliminary value for the August 2015 CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) fell compared to the previous month’s value, driven by declines in the Equipment and Buildings subindices. The Construction Labor and Engineering & Supervision subindices…
Overall production in the U.S. chemical industry rebounded in September, rising by 0.4% to 103.5% of its average 2012 value, according to the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). Pharmaceutical production…
Global specialty chemical maker Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) officially opened its new Group Biotechnology Research Center in Planegg, near Munich, today. In a ceremony attended by Ilse Aigner, the Bavarian Minister for Economic Affairs, Media, Energy and Technology, the key…
Plant Watch Technip to provide EPC services for Unipetrol HDPE plant September 10, 2015 — Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded a contract by Unipetrol (Prague, Czech Republic; www.unipetrol.cz), covering the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of a new polyethylene…
These seven-steps form a guideline for handling ethically challenging situations in technical jobs Exercising sound ethics in the chemical process industries (CPI) surely requires a large dose of technical know-how, but it also requires a set of good ethical practices…
How would you respond to these hypothetical situations involving ethics questions in the CPI? Although not an everyday occurrence, ethical questions, large and small, confront each of us in our professional lives. For professionals in the chemical process industries (CPI),…
The Chemical Activity Barometer (CAB), a leading economic indicator for the chemical process industries developed by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), dropped in September following a revised decline in August, according to the ACC’s latest Weekly Chemical…