A process for making polyols from soybean oil and glycerin has been licensed by its…

Last month, Corning SAS (Avon, France), a subsidiary of Corning Inc. (Corning, N.Y.; www.corning.com), introduced…

  Waste-to-biofuels Valero Energy Corp. (San Antonio, Tex.; www.valero.com) is one of five companies that…

Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard, the Netherlands; www.stamicarbon.com), the licensing and IP Center of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A.…

Metso (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) is supplying a 140-MWth biogasification plant to Vaskiluodon Voima Oy in…

A compact, inexpensive and energy-saving continuous process to make bioethanol is being developed by professor…

A novel nickel-manganese-gallium alloy, introduced by Goodfellow Corp. (Oakdale, Pa.; www.goodfellowusa.com), elongates in a magnetic…

Grace Davison (Columbia, Md.; www.grace.com) has commercialized a set of catalysts and additives for fluid…

Sulfur dioxide emissions from metals smelters and other process plants are typically treated by converting…

Researchers from the University of Cantabria (Santander, Spain; www.unican.es) have developed a process for incorporating…

The research group of professor Akihiko Kondo at Kobe University (Kobe City, www2.kobe-u.ac.jp/~akondo/index_English.htm) has developed…

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will consolidate the production of polyacrylamide (PAM) beads into its…

The technology company The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) has been commissioned to build and…

Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.de/energy) has received an order from China to deliver eight coal…

Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is strengthening its commitment to serve the growing Chinese market…

Solvay S.A. announced today that it has the intention to create a 50/50 joint venture…

Following successful the successful demonstration of its microchannel Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) reactor for small-scale production of…

KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) was awarded a contract by Lihuayi Weiyuan Chemical Co. to license its…

Codexis, Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.; www.codexis.com) and Chemtex Italia S.r.l. (Tortona, Italy; www.chemtex.com) , a…

Bechtel Corp. (San Francisco, Calif.; www.bechtel.com) and Linde AG (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) announced today they…

AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) plans to further strengthen its leadership position in specialty surfactants…

The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) has signed a definitive agreement under which Dow’s…

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has provided EUR 10 million ($15 million) in a financing…

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is planning to double production of its phthalate-free plasticizer Hexamoll…

Baker Hughes (Houston; www.bakerhughes.com) has completed its first unconventional hydrocarbon shale hydraulic fracturing and stimulation…

The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) plans to invest in a best-in-class manufacturing facility…

KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) was awarded a contract by Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp)…

Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany; www.merck.de) has signed a collaboration agreement with Nano-C, Inc. (Westwood, Mass.;…

The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) and the Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi…

KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by a…

Solutia, Inc. (St. Louis, Mo.; www.solutia.com) has been awarded contracts to supply its Therminol VP-1…

Praxair, Inc.’s (Danbury, Conn. www.praxair.com) German subsidiary has started up a new air separation unit…

Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has commenced work on expanding its menthol facility. The capacity…

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will significantly expand its presence in the Middle East region…

Praxair (China) Investment Co. (Shanghai; www.praxair.cn) has signed a combustion equipment contract with Shandong Guangfu…

SGL Group – The Carbon Company (Wiesbaden, Germany; www.sglgroup.com) today celebrated the construction of a…

Air Products (Allentown, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) says it will increase production of gaseous nitrogen and expand…

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with OJSC Almalyk Mining & Metallurgical…

Parsons (Pasadena, Calif.; www.parsons.com) has been selected by International Isotopes Inc., a leading manufacturer of…

Pall Corp. (Port Washington, N.Y.; www.pall.com), a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, announced…

A subsidiary of Foster Wheeler AG’s (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) Global Engineering and Construction Group has…

In the emerging and ever-expanding areas of bioprocessing, where maintaining hygienic designs and practices is…

Distillation columns are often workhorses in the chemical process industries (CPI), and at times, it…

I have an ongoing dispute with a longtime colleague, Bob Miller. I said he ruined…

To make the modern materials we use every day, such as plastics, metals, electronics, pharmaceuticals,…

Improved understanding of crystallizer equipment and operation can aid purification efforts in the CPI Crystallization…

Engineers working in the chemical process industries (CPI) sometimes have to deal with aerosol contamination…