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DuPont to acquire Rogers Corp. for $5.2 billion

DuPont (Wilmington, Del.) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Rogers Corp. (Chandler, Ariz.) for $5.2 billion. Rogers is a global leader in engineered materials and components, with unmatched application engineering expertise and leading positions in markets where its…

MilliporeSigma launches new technology and expanded capacity to advance ADC therapies

 MilliporeSigma, the U.S. and Canada Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, announced that its Life Science business sector has launched new technology and expanded capacity to advance antibody-drug conjugant  (ADC) therapies. These initiatives underscore MilliporeSigma’s continued investment in…

Mitsubishi Chemical licenses patent for biomass-based polyester to Mitsui Chemicals

Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo) recently signed a licensing agreement with Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo) for the related patent including MCC-owned basic patent (JP4380654) on a biomass-based polyester. The products covered by this license include polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which use…

Plug Power and Lhyfe announce partnership to develop green hydrogen plants in Europe

Plug Power (Latham, N.Y.) and Lhyfe, a French producer and supplier of green hydrogen, announced an partnership to jointly pursue and develop green hydrogen generation plants throughout Europe. The initiative seeks to generate a total hydrogen capacity of 300 MW…

Merck and Siemens collaborate on digitalized supply-chain solutions

Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany) and Siemens AG (Munich, Germany), an innovation leader in automation and digitalization, Germany, plan to develop and implement solutions that offer unprecedented levels of digital trust in machine-to-machine (M2M) connected industrial value chains. This would help…

Recently Published Books for the CPI: November 2021

The following is a list of recently published books with relevance to various parts of the chemical process industries (CPI) Biodiesel Technology and Applications. Edited by Inamuddin, Mohd Imran Ahamed, Rajender Boddula and Mashallah Rezakazemi, Wiley & Sons Publishing Ltd.,…

The 46th Kirkpatrick Award winner

Chemical Engineering is pleased to announce that the winner of the 46th Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Achievement Award is Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark), for its hydrotreating catalyst TK-6001 HySwell. We congratulate Haldor Topsoe for this winning achievement. Halsor Topsoe’s TK-6001…

Haldor Topsoe wins the 2021 Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Achievement Award

  Chemical Engineering is pleased to announce that the winner of the 46th Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Achievement Award is Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark), for its hydrotreating catalyst TK-6001 HySwell — an alumina-supported NiMo hydrotreating catalyst. NiMo catalysts are in…

An all-in-one solution for head, eye and respiratory protection

North Primair 900 (PA900; photo) is a new line of ergonomic and lightweight headpieces that combine face and respiratory protection for challenging work environments. The headgear is an all-in-one eye, face, head and respiratory safety solution, providing ANSI-certified and NIOSH-approved…

Use this filter in battery-chemical applications

The compact DM1000 polishing filter (photo) is particularly suitable for removing and recovering organic compounds and solids in small-stream feeds in battery chemicals processes. Thanks to its modular design, the filter is easy to expand also for larger process flows.…