A microwave vessel heating system — said to be the first commercial, industrial-scale system of…

Oji Paper Co. (OJI; www.ojipaper.co.jp), in collaboration with Nippon Steel Engineering Co. (www.nsc-eng.co.jp) and the…

A reduction of CO2 emissions of 50% can be achieved in steelmaking, using renewable carbon…

  Fine polyester fibers Teijin Fibers Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; teijinfiber.com), the core company of the…

Harnessing renewable energy by catalytic dissociation and synthesis of ammonia has shown promise for distributed…

Professor Kenichiro Itami and coworkers at at Nagoya University (Nagoya, Japan; synth.chem.nagoya-u.ac.jp) have developed a…

Acidity is a critical parameter in the chemical process industries, and accurate measurements of pH…

An organosilica material with unique structural properties due to its nanoscale architecture has been used…

A newly demonstrated system for removing trace levels of heavy metals from water combines the…

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has been awarded a contract from Solvay S.A.…

ZAO “Far East Petrochemical Co.” (FEPCO), which is implementing the project of OJSC “NK Rosneft”…

Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. (Woodridge, Ill.; www.elevance.com) and Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) have formed a…

Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is investing €40 million to build a CO2 concentration unit at…

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Rome, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.it) says that its subsidiaries, Tecnimont S.p.A. and Tecnimont do…

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will acquire the electrolytes business for high-performance batteries from German…

Heliatek GmbH (Dresden, Germany; www.heliatek.com), a global leader in high-end solar photovoltaic (PV) technology, has…

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with Chilean Codelco, the leading copper…

KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) was awarded a contract by TAIF Group to provide licensing and engineering…

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) says that it is executing four contracts from…

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract…

Linde Engineering Dresden GmbH (www.linde.com) has acquired the Carbo-V Technology of the insolvent Choren Industries…

Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed a major long-term contract with Evraz Highveld Steel…

Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has acquired 47% of shares of a major…

The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) says that its subsidiary, Babcock &…

Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has executed a definitive agreement by which Praxair sold its…

ThyssenKrupp AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp.com) and Outokumpu Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outokumpu.com) today announced the combination…

Plant Watch UOP’s Oleflex technology selected by Dow Chemical January 6, 2012 — UOP LLC…

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) says that Arlington Valley Solar Energy II, LLC (AVSE II),…

JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) has been awarded a contract for a project to renovate…

AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) is planning to invest €80 million in the construction of…

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The pursuit of manufacturing excellence is a strong theme across all of the chemical process…