DSM Nutritional Products GmbH (Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany; www.dsmnutritionalproducts.com), a subsidiary of the Dutch company Royal DSM N.V. (www.dsm.com) Brain AG (Zwingenberg, Germany; www.brain-biotech.de) have announced a strategic cooperation in the biotechnological production of water-soluble vitamins. Benefiting from the long-term experience of…
Sunil Kumar, Chairman of the International Palladium Medal Award Committee of the Société de Chimie Industrielle announced today that the prestigious international award will be made to Stephanie A. Burns, chairman, president, and CEO of Dow Corning (www.dowcorning.com), in recognition…
Ecopetrol S.A. (Bogotá, Columbia; www.ecopetrol.com.co) has successfully started-up two new units for the production of Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (Prime-D) and Ultra Low Sulfur Gasoline (Prime-G+), as part of its Hydrotreating Project (HDT) at its Barrancabermeja Refinery, located in the…
Ineos Technologies (Lyndhurst, U.K.; www.ineos.com) has licensed its Innovene S Process for the manufacture of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) to the JSC Angarsk Polymer Plant of ROSNEFT in Angarsk, Russia. The 345,000 metric ton per year…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has decided to build a specialty polymers compounding plant at its site in Changshu in the province of Jiangsu, China. Start-up of the plant is expected in the last quarter of 2012. The plant will satisfy the…
Gains in the non-manufacturing index will help allay fears of a "double-dip" recession, the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) says in its latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Trends report. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM; Tempe, Ariz.; www.ism.ws)…
Metso (Helsinki; www.metso.com) will develop and supply an automation system to AW-Energy Ltd.’s (Vantaa, Finland; www.aw-energy.com) demo power plant, the first one in the world to generate electricity from the surge, a form of ocean energy. AW-Energy will expand its…
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2010 to: Richard F. Heck, University of Delaware (Newark, Del.) Ei-ichi Negishi, Purdue University (West Lafayette, Ind.) Akira Suzuki, Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan) "for…
Chiyoda Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.chiyoda-corp.com/en) today announces that Tokuyama Corp. (Tokyo; www.tokuyama.co.jp) group has awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for a polycrystalline silicon plant in Malaysia to Chiyoda in collaboration with Chiyoda Sarawak Sdn. Bhd. (Sarawak, Malaysia)…
The technology group The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) and Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com), a market leading provider of integrated catalyst solutions, today announced they have been selected as technology suppliers for the syngas treatment and methanation unit…