Eastman Kodak Company (Kodak; Rochester, N.Y.) has announced an initiative to create a new business unit, which will produce pharmaceutical components that have been identified as critical, but have lapsed into a chronic shortage in the U.S. A letter of…
Hydrogen power is gaining ground quickly in many applications, and recent breakthroughs have proven its efficacy in datacenter use. Power Innovations (American Fork, Utah) and Microsoft recently announced a breakthrough in renewable energy: hydrogen fuel cells were successfully used to…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) has become the first chemical company to provide transparent emission data for the entire portfolio of approximately 45,000 products. BASF will provide its customers with total values of CO2 emissions, so called “carbon footprints” for all…
In this edition of CE Voices, Chemical Engineering Senior Associate Editor Mary Page Bailey sits down with Alan Schrob of NOVA Chemicals to discuss the company's development of a new polyethylene resin aimed at improving the recyclability of plastic films…
Portuguese energy company Galp joins EDP, Martifer, REN, Vestas and several other European partners to assess the feasibility of the H2 Sines project, which aims to implement an industrial cluster for green hydrogen production based in Sines. The project has…
BMW Group has announced plans for a new pilot plant that will produce lithium-ion battery (LIB) cells. With this plant, the company is taking the next logical step in penetrating all aspects of the battery cell value chain: from selection…
Hexion Inc. (Columbus, Ohio) announced a collaboration with Poland-based D&R Dispersions and Resins Sp. z o.o. to produce VeoVa Silane resins on a commercial scale, which gives paint producers and formulators direct access to this unique technology. The VeoVa Silane…
In line with its plan to reduce its emissions of CO2, Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa) has signed an exclusive negotiation agreement for Air Liquide (Paris, France) to acquire the biggest oxygen-production site in the world located in Secunda in…
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.), a global chemical and specialty materials company, today announced that it is establishing a European Compounding Center of Excellence at the Company’s Forli, Italy facility, which includes the intended consolidation of its compounding operations in Kaiserslautern,…
Linde plc (Guildford, U.K.) announced that it has started up a new air separation unit (ASU) and the first of three nitrogen (N2) generators, as part of a 15-year contract to supply ultra-high purity industrial gases to a major electronics…