Chemical Engineering
BASF opens new production line for water-based dispersions in the Netherlands
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) recently opened its new production line for water-based dispersions in Heerenveen, the Netherlands. Thanks to this new line, production capacity will be increased, without additional CO2 emissions. The expansion has taken place on the basis…
Schneider Electric and Saint-Gobain launch first-of-its kind automation system for glass production
Schneider Electric SE (Paris) and Saint-Gobain S.A. (Courbevoie, France) have joined forces to deploy the first-of-its kind software-defined automation system for glass production. Unveiled at Glasstec 2024, the world's leading trade fair for the glass industry, the project addresses the…
Veolia and Morocco to establish Africa’s largest desalination project
Veolia (Paris) and the Kingdom of Morocco signed a MOA for the establishment of a strategic partnership to develop on an exclusive basis a seawater desalination project that will be the largest in Africa and the second largest in the…
Asahi Kasei and Honda form battery separator JV in Canada
Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo) and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda) announced that the two companies have signed a shareholders' agreement to convert an existing Asahi Kasei subsidiary in Canada into a joint venture (JV) company. This agreement was reached as…
Siemens to acquire Altair Engineering for $10 billion
Siemens AG (Munich, Germany) has signed an agreement to acquire Altair Engineering Inc. (Troy, Mich.), a leading provider of software in the industrial simulation and analysis market. Altair shareholders will receive USD 113 per share, representing an enterprise value…
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Process for electrolytically converting CO2 to carbon materials to be scaled up
With a recent round of investment funding, UP Catalyst (Tallinn, Estonia; www.upcatalyst.com) plans to build a pilot plant for a process that converts waste carbon dioxide into a range of solid carbon materials, such as carbon nanotubes, (CNTs), graphite and…
“Frugal” method adsorbs and destroys PFAS with photocatalyst
Removing per- and polyfluoralkyl substances (PFAS) from surface and groundwater has become an environmental and public health imperative, but methods for doing so are often complicated and costly, and may not destroy the molecules. Researchers at the University of British…
A low-cost method for bio-based production of acrylic acid
Acrylic acid, a commodity chemical used widely in superabsorbent polymers, paints, coatings, adhesives and more, is typically produced from fossil-based propylene at relatively high temperatures. As part of an initiative supported by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, funding was recently…
Business News: November 2024
Plant Watch BASF completes superabsorbent polymers expansion project in Texas October 16, 2024 — BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) announced that its petrochemicals division has completed production upgrades for superabsorbent polymers (SAP) after a $19.2-million investment in its Freeport, Tex.…