A move toward bio-based malic acid... Novozymes A/S (Copenhagen, Denmark; www.novozymes.com) has developed a strain…

Synfuels China Technology Co. (Beijing; www.synfuelschina.com.cn) says it has developed a high-temperature slurry Fischer-Tropsch (F-T)…

Professor Shu Kobayashi and his research group at The School of Science, University of Tokyo…

Advanced Algal Technologies (Sydney, Australia; www.advancedalgal.com) has signed a $100-million deal with Fuzhou Xiangli Enterprise…

Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) has commercialized a solvent-free coating for electrical insulators. Powersil…

Linde Gases (Murray Hill, N.J.; www.linde-gases.com) has developed a novel cryogenic technology that promotes uniformity…

Masaru Nakamichi, leader of the Blanket Technology Group, Naka Fusion Institute, Japan Atomic Energy Agency…

A test method developed by SABIC (Saudi Basic Industries Corp.; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) scientists…

  Artificial photosynthesis Scientists at Panasonic Corp.(Osaka, Japan; www.pana sonic.com) have developed an artificial photosynthesis…

A new hydraulically driven, positive-displacement-pump system can lower the energy requirements for pumping water by…

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) says it will build and operate a new air…

AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) is to boost capacity at one of its U.S. sites…

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is starting basic planning for a new methyl methacrylate…

Today, Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) officially opened two rare earth recycling units in France.…

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.it) says that several contracts have been awarded to some…

Ineos Europe AG (www.ineos.com) says it has completed supply and infrastructure agreements that will secure…

KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) was awarded a license and engineering contract by Ohio Valley Resources LLC…

Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded two contracts, worth a total value of about €50…

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Petronas, the state-owned…

SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded a contract by Compañía Minera del…

As the first multinational company to open a research center in China in 1997, Novo…

Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) is expanding its production capacity in South Korea for…

JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) says that its wholly-owned Saudi Arabian subsidiary, JGC Gulf International…

UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that China’s Jiutai Energy…

Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and…

Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and…

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announced today a capacity increase of 70% at its Panoli…

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) will supply flotation technology for a major copper producer in…

Bechtel (Houston; www.bechtel.com) has signed a license agreement with Pemex Refinación for the process design…

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

A carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) demonstration project jointly under way by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries,…

Samsung Engineering Co. (Seoul, Korea; www.samsungengineering.co.kr) signed its first Latin American contract at an official…

UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that its technology has…

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) recently signed a contract to supply its integrated oxy-fuel…

A modular gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant incorporating Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) technology developed by Velocys, Inc. (Plain City,…

ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) has won orders totaling $140 million from Vale S.A. (Vale) to…

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) was awarded a contract by Lotte Chemical UK…

Athabasca Oil Corp. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) has awarded GE (www.ge.com) a contract to design and…

KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract by Iowa Fertilizer Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary…

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) says it is doubling the production capacity for specialty fluorinated…

Thin-film drying is a continuous drying technology that is safe, flexible and offers many benefits,…

Pumps are among the most commonly used machines in the chemical process industries (CPI). Condition…

Corrections: From the October 2012 Letters page: This original article, which appeared in the print…

This article is the first in a two-part series, in which the types of process…

There are two main reasons why compressor capacity regulation is used. The most prevalent reason…