Overall, industrial production decreased in February by 0.5%, according to the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). However, a breakdown reveals mixed results, depending on industry sector. For example, although there…
Anellotech Inc. (Pearl River, N.Y.; www.anellotech.com), a sustainable technology company focused on producing cost-competitive renewable chemicals from non-food biomass, today announced that the company has received an additional $3 million equity investment from an unnamed and confidential multinational strategic investor…
DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) Global Technology Director Henry Bryndza today received the Earle B. Barnes Award for Leadership in Chemical Research Management at the 2016 American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting in San Diego, California. Bryndza was recognized for his…
Under coordination by Kelvion (Bochum, www.kelvion.com), a total of twelve partners — within the context of the project MinWaterCSP, for minimized water consumption in concentrated solar power plants (CSP) — will develop solutions to reduce the consumption of water in…
Kolon Plastics (Gimcheon, Korea; www.kolonplastics.com) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) signed an agreement to establish a joint venture (JV) in Korea to manufacture polyoxymethylene (POM), an engineering plastic used in industrial, transportation, construction and consumer markets. The 50-50…
Like carbon dioxide, methane is one of the most important greenhouse gases. After a period of stagnation around 2000, atmospheric methane concentrations started to rise again in 2007. So far, the causes have been unknown. According to the recent…
For the first time ever an integrated automation solution will manage end-to-end production in the pulp industry — from the woodyard to the baling line — from a single control room ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) will provide integrated solutions using…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Avantium Technologies B.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.avantium.com ) today announced that they have signed a letter of intent and entered into exclusive negotiations to establish a joint venture (JV) for the production and…
The Bokpoort concentrated-solar plant, built by a joint venture (JV) between Sener (www.sener.es), Acciona (both Madrid, Spain; www.acciona.com) and TSK and South Africa’s Crowie, was inaugurated today (March 14) near Upington in Northern Cape Province of South Africa. The…
NET Power, LLC (Durham, N.C.; www.netpower.com) has broken ground on a first-of- a-kind power plant that will validate a new natural-gas-fired power system that produces low-cost electricity with zero atmospheric emissions, including carbon dioxide. NET Power is a collaboration between…