The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed that companies be required to report to the agency all new uses, including domestic or imported products, of five groups of potentially harmful chemicals. The chemicals have been used in consumer products…
On March 13, 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; Washington, D.C.; www.epa.gov) issued a “No Action Assurance (NAA) Letter” to area source facilities required to conduct boiler tune-up by March 21, 2012, under the Area Source Rule. This means…
Lucid Energy (Portland, Ore.; www.lucidenergy.com) today announced the commercial availability of its in-pipe hydropower system, known as the LucidPipe Power System. This renewable energy system enables large users of energy and water — such as municipal water and wastewater, agricultural…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been jointly awarded, with ENPPI — an engineering company under the Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum — a contract to build a 460,000 ton/yr ethylene plant and a 20,000 ton/yr butadiene extraction plant…
Industrial biotechnology company Verenium Corp. (San Diego, Calif.; www.verenium.com) today announced it has closed a transaction with DSM Food Specialties B.V., a business group of Royal DSM (Heerlen, The Netherlands; www.dsm.com), in which Verenium has sold to DSM its oilseed…
OPX Biotechnologies Inc. (OPX; Boulder, Colo.; www.opxbio.com) today announced that the company has successfully demonstrated its fermentation process for bio-based acrylic acid at the 3,000-L scale. OPX is working with The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) to bring its…
Royal DSM N.V. (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding between its U.S.-based Business Unit DSM Functional Materials and Empresa Brasileira de Biotecnologia S.A. (Ebrabiotech; Araraquara, Brazil) for the launch of a new line of DSM-branded bio-based…
“The member companies of Germany’s Large Industrial Plant Manufacturer’s Group (AGAB; Frankfurt am Main; www.grossanlagenbau.vdma.org) booked orders worth €24.9 billion in 2011, an 11% increase compared to the previous year (€22.4 billion in 2010)”, announced Helmut Knauthe, AGAB spokesman and…
Guodian Northeast Environmental Protection Industry Group, Ltd. has selected Siemens Industry Automation Division (Nuremberg, Germany; www.siemens.com/water) to supply an IPS composting system using the new Mechanically Enhanced Biodrying (MEB) process for the Shenyang Wastewater Treatment Plant Sludge Treatment Project in…
Both the global and U.S. chemical production regional indices (Global CPRI and U.S. CPRI, respectively) rose in February, according to the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). The global CPRI…