A simple, fast and clean process to make esters without a catalyst is being developed…

A method for manufacturing porous-wall, hollow-glass microspheres (PWHGMs) over an adjustable range of pore sizes…

The use of palladium on carbon powder supports (Pd-CP) has traditionally been a commercially viable…

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7374-542) has developed a new class of enzymes, called enoate reductases,…

Chemists at Stanford University (Calif.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7374-543) have constructed a field-effect transistor (FET) with graphene that…

Researchers at TU Delft (edlinks.chemengonline.com/7374-544) and the FOM Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (Utrecht,…

Industrial designer Tore Christian Bjørsvik at Sintef Health Research (Trondheim, Norway; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7374-545) has developed a…

The Dow Performance Fluids, a business of Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7374-546) has introduced…

Ethanol could be produced for less than $1/gal through a new process developed by ZeaChem,…

Last month, a Dutch consortium composed of Akzo Nobel (Amsterdam, Netherlands; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7473-549), energy firm Essent,…

Single crystals of high-purity, anatase titanium dioxide with a high percentage of reactive (001) facets…

Scientists at Rice University (Houston, Tex.; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7374-547) have shown how baton-shaped nanoparticles of metal and…

BASF IT Services (Ludwigshafen, Germany; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7374-533) has developed a voice-activated IT system that can be…

Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7374-534) has commercialized its new Resid Fluid Catalytic Cracking (RFCC) PetroRiser technology…

Alkylglyceryl ethers (AGEs) are biodegradable nonionic surfactants with excellent foaming and moisturizing properties. Up to…

Current silks tend to lose performance in water and yellow in sunlight. Few of the…

Titanium, the ninth most abundant metal in the world, has some desirable properties — the…

Researchers at the U.S. Dept.of Energy’s Ames Laboratory (Iowa; edlinks.chemengonline.com/7374-538) have developed a new method…

PetroChina Sichuan Petrochemical Co., Ltd. (PetroChina Sichuan) has selected Unipol Polypropylene Process Technology from Dow…

Linhuan Coking Co. has selected LyondellBasell’s (Rotterdam, Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) Aromatics Extraction process for a new…

Foster Wheeler Ltd. (Hamilton, Bermuda; www.fwc.com) announced today that its Finnish subsidiary Foster Wheeler Energia…

SKC (Seoul, Korea; www.skc.kr/skhp/en/index.jsp), the leading propylene oxide (PO) and polyester film producer in Korea,…

Specialty chemicals supplier Cognis (Monheim, Germany; www.cognis.com) today announced the sale of its 50-% stake…

The Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Co. (Takreer, United Arab Emirates; www.takreer.com) has awarded the Shaw…

Petrom S.A. of Romania has commissioned Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.biz) to build a gasoline…

  Much as the chemical process industries (CPI) themselves are always evolving, so too are…

Plant Watch Evonik to close its orthoesters plant in Niederkassel... June 11, 2008 — Evonik…

GEA Group AG (Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com) has further strengthened its Farm Technologies Division through the…

Ashland Inc. (Covington, Ky.) and Hercules Inc. (Wilmington, Del.) today announced that they have entered…

Airgas, Inc. (Radnor, Pa.; www.airgas.com) today announced that it will build a new 450-ton/d liquid-carbon-dioxide…

The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.) and Rohm and Haas (Philadelphia, Pa.) today announced a…

The Dutch company Yara Sluiskil B.V., part of the Norwegian chemicals group Yara International ASA,…

Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.;www.emerson.com) today announced it has acquired TopWorx (Louisville, Ky.; www.topworx.com). Terms of…

Evonik Industries AG’s (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) Inorganic Materials Business Unit and the Russian Synttech Group…

On 4 July, the privately managed industrial gas specialist Messer (Sultzbach, Germany; www.messergroup.com) signed a…

KBR Inc. (Houston, Tex.; www.kbr.com) today announced its 55% owned subsidiary, M.W. Kellogg Ltd. (MWKL;…

Following clearance by the competition authorities, Ineos (www.ineos.com) has completed the agreement to combine Ineos…

Technip (Paris; www.technip.com), leader in a consortium with Pireco, has been awarded by Tunisian Indian…

Alstom (www.power.alstom.com) has signed a letter of intent with Saudi Arabian utility, Saudi Electricity Company…

Vacuum is any system of reduced pressure, relative to local (typically atmospheric) pressure. Achieved with…

  Plant performance and safety are key issues for the chemical process industries (CPI) and…

Many types of industrial processes utilize liquid level sensors to provide the information needed to…

The incorporation of floating solids into liquids is a common challenge throughout the chemical process…

With the increasing demand for security, drums and other liquid vessels that contain valuable or…

Workers in the chemical process industries (CPI) would certainly benefit from the "perfect" glove that…