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…

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

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

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…

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…

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…