PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) and LG Chem recently inked an agreement to build a Nitrile Butadiene Latex (NBL) manufacturing plant at Pengerang Integrated Complex (PIC) in Johor to target the growing nitrile glove market, further strengthening…
Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. launched mass production of MCL-HS200, an advanced functional laminate material for printed wiring boards, with low transmission loss and low warpage properties required for semiconductor packaging substrates used in such fields as fifth-generation mobile communications systems…
How a design change has made the vacuum drum filter resistant to corrosion in applications like producing titaniumdioxyd (TiO2) in sulfuric acid (H2SO4) processes, helping to significantly lower production losses and reduce maintenance costs. Prized for its excellent weathering properties,…
The American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) reported that with continued recovery in the U.S. economy, U.S. specialty chemicals market volumes rebounded by 1.9 percent in July, off from a strong revised 4.6 percent gain in June, a revised…
Metsä Group’s (Helsinki, Finland) innovation company Metsä Spring and Valmet Oyj (Espoo, Finland) have decided to continue the development collaboration related to 3D fiber products and hence, to invest jointly approximately EUR 20 million in a new R&D project. As…
Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, LLC, a subsidiary of Occidental, and Rusheen Capital Management, a private equity firm, have formed a development company, 1PointFive, to finance and deploy Carbon Engineering’s large-scale Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology for carbon capture, utilization &…
Republic Services Inc., and energy partners Aria Energy and bp plc (London), announced the startup of a landfill-gas-to-renewable-natural-gas (RNG) project at South Shelby Landfill near Memphis, Tennessee. The project directly supports Republic's commitment to send 50 percent more landfill gas…
Chemetry Corp. (Moss Landing, Calif.), and Braskem, the leading producer of thermoplastic resins in the Americas, will construct and operate a Demonstration Plant using Chemetry's eShuttle technology for the production of ethylene dichloride (EDC) in Brazil. The eShuttle EDC…
The following is a list of recently published books with relevance to the chemical process industries (CPI): Trevor Kletz Compendium: How his Best Process Stories are Still Relevant Today. Andy Brazier, Fiona MacLeod, David Edwards and others, Elsevier Press, 2020,…
On this edition of the CE Podcast, senior editor Scott Jenkins talks to Hannah Davis, the blockchain project lead at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). She provides an explanation of what blockchain is, and describes use cases that are…