Mobile Navigation

Latest News

Linde to supply industrial gases for world’s first large-scale green-steel plant in Sweden

Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) will invest approximately $150 million to build, own and operate an on-site air separation unit (ASU) in Boden, northern Sweden. Linde will supply oxygen, nitrogen and argon to H2 Green Steel’s integrated plant, which will use…

Arkema acquires Dow’s flexible packaging laminating adhesives business

Arkema S.A. (Colombes, France) has agreed to acquire Dow’s flexible packaging laminating adhesives business, one of the leading producers of adhesives for the flexible packaging market, generating annual sales of around US$250 million. The proposed acquisition will significantly expand Arkema’s…

INEOS completes purchase of LyondellBasell’s Ethylene Oxide & Derivatives business

INEOS Oxide and LyondellBasell (LYB; Rotterdam, the Netherlands) have completed the sale of LYB’s Ethylene Oxide & Derivatives (EO&D) business and associated production facilities located in Bayport, Texas to INEOS. Tobias Hannemann, CEO of INEOS Oxide said, “We are pleased…

Dow, Henkel and Kraton collaborate to lower carbon footprint for adhesive manufacturing

Dow (Midland, Mich.), Henkel Adhesive Technologies (Dusseldorf, Germany), and Kraton Corp. (Houston), have achieved a reduction in product carbon footprint for two of Henkel’s North American flagship products for end-of-line packaging: TECHNOMELT SUPRA 100 and TECHNOMELT SUPRA 106M. TECHNOMELT SUPRA…

Member Exclusive

Storing and processing anhydrous hydrogen chloride as an ionic liquid

Hydrogen chloride is an important byproduct of the chemical industry, with over 9-million ton/yr generated by industrial chlorination processes, such as the production of chloromethanes and polymers (polyurethanes and polycarbonates). Although HCl can be easily recovered by gas scrubbing with…

Member Exclusive

Electrochemical sensor selectively detects dangerous bacteria

Researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt (www.uni-frankfurt.de) and Kiel University (both Germany; www.uni-kiel.de) have developed a new sensor for the detection of bacteria. It is based on a chip with a surface coating that ensures only very specific microorganisms, such as…

Member Exclusive

Solid-state synthesis simplifies cathode manufacture

The production and processing of cathode active materials (CAM) are among the largest contributors to the cost of lithium-ion battery manufacturing. Typical CAM manufacture involves multiple, multi-phase steps in a co-precipitation process that requires a large amount of water and…

Member Exclusive

Evolving Demand and Feed Profiles Challenge Refiners

Trends related to the energy transition are shifting global demand for refined products and affecting feedstock slates, forcing petroleum refiners to embrace adaptation and flexibility Demand for fossil fuels has remained strong in the years after the COVID-19 pandemic, but…

Member Exclusive

Ion-Exchange Resins: Solutions for a Wide Range of Challenges

A large selection of ion-exchange resins is available today for a constantly growing variety of applications. In order to choose the appropriate resin for a specific application, it is important to carefully evaluate the range of resin and process properties…

Member Exclusive

Industrial Robots Forge Ahead

Performance improvements in robotics technologies for manufacturing and energy operations are leading to greater productivity, cost savings and safety improvements In the chemical process industries (CPI), mobile robots, often in conjunction with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), are…