This practical guide provides information on proven backwash-tuning techniques that will improve the reliability and robustness of sand filters in water treatment applications Water is a fundamental part of virtually all plants in the chemical process industries (CPI). Examples of…
Orion Engineered Carbons S.A. (Luxembourg) constructing its second plant in China for specialty and high-performance carbon black, expanding the chemical company’s production capacity in one of the world’s fastest-growing markets. Carbon black, available as powder or beads, is commonly used…
Arkema S.A. (Colombes, France) signed an agreement related to the acquisition of Ashland Global Holdings Inc.’s (Wilmington, Del.) Performance Adhesives business, a first-class leader in high performance adhesives for industrial applications in the United States with a unique and innovative…
Nouryon (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) plans to build a new production facility to meet the increasing global demand for innovative and sustainable additives for the rapidly growing Paints and Coatings end-market and other high-growth end-markets. The new facility will be situated…
Lummus Technology (Houston) announced that it has achieved successful plant acceptance from Formosa Chemicals and Fibre Corp. for the company's cumene and phenol plant expansion in Ningbo, China. The expansion was to an existing 450,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr)…
The Chemical Activity Barometer (CAB), a leading economic indicator created by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), fell 0.5% in August on a three-month moving average (3MMA) basis, following steadily easing gains in May, June and July. On…
LG Chem Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea) and Veolia R&E are collaborating on the production of transparent Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), a high value-added synthetic resin, using a chemically recycled raw material. LG Chem announced that it had signed a Strategic…
Mitsubishi Power, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, is embarking on a project to develop a commercial-scale supply chain for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) derived by wood biomass gasification integrated with Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis technology. The project will…
Repsol S.A. (Madrid, Spain) has successfully completed the manufacture of the first batch of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF; biojet) produced from waste on the Spanish market at its Petronor Industrial Complex in Bilbao. This is a significant milestone in the…
Malta Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.), a pioneer in long-duration energy storage, announced that Chevron Technology Ventures and Piva Capital have joined Proman, Alfa Laval, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and Dustin Moskovitz in its oversubscribed Series B financing, increasing the round to over…