Next year IHI Corp. (IHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.ihi.co.jp) plans to construct a demonstration plant in Indonesia…

Researchers at Texas A&M University (College Station, Tex.; www.tamu.edu) are poised to complete assembly of…

The process, developed by Masateru Nishioka at the Research Center for Compact Chemical Process, Institute…

Professor Tetsu Yonezawa at the Materials Science Div. of Hokkaido University (Sapporo; labs.eng.hokudai.ac.jp/labo/limsa/english/), in collaboration…

Biodiesel fuel is being produced for under $2/gal from product wastes in a process commercialized…

As producers continue to develop new applications for nanoparticles, the health, safety and environmental (HSE)…

The cleanup of nuclear waste could be simplified by a process being developed at Northwestern…

An instrument called the Cottonscope, which automatically measures cotton maturity in 25 s, has been…

This month, Showa Denko K. K. (Tokyo, Japan; www.sdk.co.jp) will begin marketing its carbon-nanotube (CNT)…

Scientists at Carbon Sciences Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.; www.carbonsciences.com) have successfully demonstrated a CO2-to-fuel process…

A hard biomaterial Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Applied Materials Research…

Boliden AB (Stockholm, Sweden; www.boliden.com) has acquired Kemira’s sulfuric acid plant and business in Kokkola,…

 Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has acquired all shares in Edmeston AB (Gothenburg Sweden; www.edmeston.com),…

Together with E.ON AG (Düsseldorf; www.eon.com) and Hitachi Power Europe (Duisburg, Germany; www.hitachi-power.com), ThyssenKrupp VDM…

Neste Jacobs Oy (Porvoo, Finland; www.nestejacobs.com) and Eesti Energia (Tallinn, Estonia; www.energia.ee) agreed on building a shale…

Catalytic Distillation Technologies (CDTech; Pasadena, Tex.; www.cdtech.com) has been awarded a contract by TAIF-NK OAO for…

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announces today that the construction of the Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF)…

AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands;www.akzonobel.com) is to build an additional plant at its Ningbo multi-site for…

Biotage AB (Uppsala, Sweden; www.biotage.com) and the owners of MIP Technologies AB (Lund, Sweden: www.miptechnologies.com)…

ZeaChem Inc. (Lakewood, Col.; www.zeachem.com today announced it has produced commercial grade ethyl acetate, thereby proving…

Borouge (Abu Dhabi, UAE; and Singapore; www.borouge.com) — a joint venture between Abu Dhabi National…

BASF SE’s (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) Catalysts division has completed a number of capital investment projects…

Additional polycrystalline-silicon production facilities officially came on stream at Wacker Chemie AG’s (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com)…

Alkim Alkali Kimya A.S. (Alkim; Istanbul, Turkey), one of the world’s largest producers of sodium…

Lurgi, Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.; www.lurgi.com), a member of the Air Liquide group of companies announces…

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Bhushan Power & Steel Plant Ltd. (BPSL)…

Teijin Ltd. (Tokyo; www.teijin.co.jp) announced today that it has signed a business collaboration agreement with…

International provider of testing and certification services TÜV SÜD AG (Munich, Germany; www.tuev-sued.de) has taken…

Merck KGaA (Darmstadt; www.merck.de) and Plastic Logic GmbH (Dresden, both Germany; www.plasticlogic.com) today announced plans…

W. R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.; www.grace.com) today announced a new multi-year agreement to…

We Energies (Milwaukee, Wisc.; www.we-energies.com) has awarded Pöyry Oyj (Hessinki, Finland; www.poyry.com) an engineering contract…

SGL Group SE (Wiesbaden, Germany; www.sglcarbon.com) and BMW Group (Munich, Germany; www.bmwgroup.com) jointly announced today…

Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) has been awarded two contracts by Hindustan Petroleum Corp. (HPCL) for…

Like most other businesses, engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firms have felt the pinch of…

Outotec to deliver a copper smelter for plant in China March 16, 2010 — Outotec…

Eldorado Celulose e Papel Ltda (Brazil) has awarded Pöyry Plc. (Helsinki, Finland; www.poyry.com) a contract…

This survey of modern particle-measurement technologies demonstrates how selection criteria vary by application Particulate systems…

Mechanical processes can offer an environmentally friendly and safer option to chemical water treatment Non-chemical…

The use of appropriate hazardous-area lighting in the chemical process industries (CPI) is a key…

As heat exchangers age, their tube thickness decreases because of erosion, corrosion or a combination…

The stirred tank reactor with rotating mixers remains the backbone of the chemical process industries…