Nippon Ketjen Co. (Tokyo; www.nippon-ketjen.co.jp) has developed two new catalysts with enhanced properties for petroleum…

Kyoto University (Kyoto, www.kuchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp) professor Hiroshi Kitagawa has developed technology for synthesizing nanoscale particles of…

A silica-based amorphous material in which silicon atoms are linked to organic groups, as well…

Up to now, used energy-saving light bulbs have been processed by recycling firms that recover…

Mesa Minerals Ltd. (Perth, Australia; www.mesaminerals.com.au) has developed an alternative hydrometallurgical method for converting low-grade…

A process to spray-dry Aloe vera for use in the food and cosmetics industry has…

    DuPont acquisition Last month, DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) announced its plans to acquire…

A novel process for removing hydrogen sulfide from natural gas has been started up at…

A pilot plant for a process that uses a fluidized bed of sand to gasify…

A manufacturing facility for bio-based intermediate and specialty chemicals under construction by Elevance Renewable Sciences…

A pulsed-electric-field (PEF) pre-treatment technology to facilitate extraction of oils from algae cells was introduced…

The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) says it will accelerate energy efficiency and conservation…

The Babcock & Wilcox Co.'s (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) Denmark-based subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Vølund…

Invista (Wichita, Kan.; www.invista.com) is moving forward on its plans to construct a manufacturing facility…

Bayer MaterialScience (BMS; Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayerbms.com) has inaugurated a manufacturing facility for polyisocyanates at Ankleshwar,…

Oxea GmbH (Oberhausen, Germany; www.oxea-chemicals.com) announces significant capacity expansion for specialty esters to keep up…

Micronics, Inc. (Portsmouth, N.H.; www.micronicsinc.com),  manufacturers of filter presses, filter plates, and filter cloths used…

Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.; www.eastman.com) has successfully completed a further expansion of its manufacturing…

KBR Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced today that KLH Australia-Browse Joint Venture (KLH Australia), a joint…

Solvay SA (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has acquired a fluorspar mine in Chiprovtsi, Bulgaria from the…

Eric Byres, CTO of Byres Security Inc. (British Columbia, Canada; www.tofinosecurity.com), Andrew Ginter, CTO of…

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has announced that it signed a contract in…

LanzaTech (Auckland, New Zealand; www.lanzatech.co.nz) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Posco (Seoul,…

The Flexitallic Group (Flexitallic; Houston) has launched its new website www.flexitallic.com. The company specializes in…

Myriant Technologies (Quincy, Mass.; www.myriant.com) and Davy Process Technology (DPT; London; www.davyprotech.com), a Johnson Matthey company,…

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Eesti Energia, the leading oil shale-to-energy company…

Siemens AG (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) has revealed plans to establish a manufacturing and service facility…

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has strengthened its portfolio of environmental technologies by acquiring the…

Nanostart AG (Frankfurt, Germany; www.nanostart.de) has taken an investment position in Membrane Instruments and Technology…

ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) has won an order worth $47 million from Corporacion Nacional del…

KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) says that Valero Energy Corp. San Antonio, Tex.; www.valero.com) has started up…

The Global Engineering and Construction Group of Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) has been…

Fike (Blue Springs, MO; www.fike.com) announces the completion of a new Pressure Vessel Manufacturing Facility…

SNC-Lavalin, Inc. (Montreal, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has signed a contract for the implementation of the first…

Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) will supply a gasifier to sustain new gasification technology to…

Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that its Global Engineering and Construction Group…

Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com), in a consortium with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., has…

Chevron Corp. (San Ramon, Calif.; www.chevron.com) has announced that Chevron Lubricants will commence construction of…

Current industry syngas output has increased by 26% since 2007 — and by 50% since…

Given the state of the still-lagging economy, it doesn’t come as a surprise that the…

Eurecat to build a new catalyst-processing facility in India January 4, 2011 — Eurecat SA…

Buried piping — especially lines carrying hydrocarbons — shoulders many more risks in terms of…

Throughout the chemical process industries (CPI), project owners often track key performance indicators (KPIs) to…

The pressure testing of process piping and vessels is essential in the chemical process industries…

The fact that I was 150 ft up, on the outside of an extraction column,…

Steam thermodynamics Brad Buecker’s article, Steam Generation Thermodynamics (November 2010, pp. 44–47), was excellent —…

Piping integrity is always a major concern in the chemical process industries (CPI), but the…