CertifiedSafety (Deer Park, Tex.; www.certifiedsafety.net) commenced the construction for its new corporate office in League City, Texas. The new facility, expected to open its doors in December 2012, is located at 1177 Butler Avenue in League City, Texas, near Highway…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) say it was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract by The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) for a propylene production asset project in Freeport, Texas. Fluor successfully completed the front-end engineering…
A carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) demonstration project jointly under way by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.co.jp) and Southern Company, a major U.S. electric utility, has begun underground injection of carbon dioxide recovered from emissions from a…
Samsung Engineering Co. (Seoul, Korea; www.samsungengineering.co.kr) signed its first Latin American contract at an official ceremony with Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB), Bolivia’s state-owned oil company. Joining the historic event was Bolivian President Evo Morales, YPFB President Carlos Villegas, and…
Normal 0 A survey on the current costs and practicalities of following two new OECD guidelines for testing chemicals has been published on the European Chemicals Agency’s (ECHA) website. The “Report on Survey of Worldwide Contract Research Organizations: Costs and…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that its technology has been selected to help produce key ingredients for fuels, synthetic rubber and plastics in China. China’s Heilongjiang Anruijia Petrochemical Co. will use UOP’s C4 Oleflex…
The U.S. chemical industry was one of eight industries reporting growth during August, while a host of others, including textiles, fabricated metals and machinery reported contraction, according to data from the Institute for Supply Management that was analyzed in the…
LS9, Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.; www.ls9.com) a technology leader in the development of renewable and sustainable chemicals and fuels, today announced the successful start-up of its Florida operations with an initial production run of fatty alcohols. LS9 completed the…
The Society of Chemical Manufacturers and Affiliates (SOCMA; Washington, D.C.; www.socma.com) today testified before Congress that poor implementation of the nation’s chemical security regulations has created burdens on small chemical companies.

 Testifying on behalf of SOCMA before the House…
A modular gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant incorporating Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) technology developed by Velocys, Inc. (Plain City, Ohio; www.velocys.com), the U.S.-based subsidiary of the Oxford Catalysts Group (Abingdon, U.K.; www.oxfordcatalysts.com), has been chosen by Calumet Specialty Product Partners, L.P., major U.S.-based producer…