Further to its announcement earlier this year of a first production plant to manufacture cathode materials for the European automotive market, Umicore N.V. (Brussels, Belgium; www.umicore.com) has now selected a site in Nysa, Poland, for this investment. The plant will…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) started operations at a new electronic-grade sulfuric acid (H2SO4) plant in Jiaxing, China, to serve the country’s growing semiconductor manufacturing industry. Driven by strong demand from customers, the plant has simultaneously started its expansion phase…
Johnson Matthey (London, U.K.; www.matthey.com) announced details of its business strategy in the battery-materials sector, including the commercialization of the new enhanced lithium nickel oxide (eLNO) battery material. eLNO is an ultra-high energy density material, said to compete with emerging materials…
Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) has confirmed a detailed investment review, with its partner Novus International, Inc., to double production capacities at Arkema’s Beaumont Thiochemicals site in the U.S. This project will support the strong global growth in the animal nutrition…
Ascend Performance Materials, LLC (Houston; www.ascendmaterials.com) announced plans for expanding its adiponitrile (ADN) capacity through 2022. In total, Ascend will grow its ADN capacity by 220,000 metric tons (m.t.) by 2022 to meet increasing demand. Ascend completed its first expansion…
Data collected and tabulated by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) show that the global chemical industry started the second quarter on a good note. ACC’s Global Chemical Production Regional Index (Global CPRI) shows that global chemicals production…
The new Biomethane 3000 fixed analyzer (photo) is designed for high-accuracy methane and oxygen readings for biomethane applications, including biogas upgrading and anaerobic digestion. The Biomethane 3000provides continual measurement of methane, carbon dioxide and oxygen with a user-definable fourth gas…
Last month, for the first time, U.S. plastic resin producers publicly committed to measurable targets toward complete recovery and recycling of plastic packaging. The American Chemistry Council’s (ACC; www.americanchemistry.com) Plastics Division, which includes 15 of the leading resin manufacturers, announced…
Engineers from across the chemical process industries (CPI) will convene June 11–15 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, for Achema 2018. Over 3,800 exhibitors will showcase some of the world’s newest equipment, services and technologies for the CPI, and a concurrent…
To meet strict sulfur specifications and reduce emissions, amine scrubbing and caustic treatment are frequently used to remove hydrogen sulfide from gas and liquid streams, but these methods are not effective for handling more complex organo-sulfur compounds, such as thiophenes…