Greentown Labs (Somerville, Mass.; www.greentownlabs.com), the largest cleantech startup incubator in North America, and BASF Corp. North America (Florham Park, N.J.; www.basf.com) one of the world's leading chemical companies, are now accepting applications for the Greentown Labs Circularity Challenge, a…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Sichuan Lutianhua Co., Ltd. (Lutianhua; China; www.sclth.com) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to co-develop a pilot production plant, that will significantly reduce carbon emissions and increase energy efficiency in producing dimethyl ether…
On June 18, 2019, and following the scheduled two-year construction period, Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) officially commissioned its second complex for the production of MetAmino (DL-methionine) and strategically important precursors in Singapore. “Our methionine complex on Jurong Island,…
Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com) has brought on line its new Pangea III supercomputer, multiplying the Group’s computing power by almost 5 to 31.7 petaflops (equivalent to 170,000 laptops combined) and tripling its storage capacity to 76 petabytes (equivalent to…
Pfizer Inc. (New York; www.pfizer.com) and Array BioPharma Inc. (Boulder, CO; www.arraybiopharma.com) have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Pfizer will acquire Array, a commercial stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of targeted small…
GAIL Ltd. (New Delhi, India; www.gailonline.com) has successfully produced Metallocene linear-low density polyethylene (mLLDPE) on its world-class 400,000 MT per annum UNIPOL PE Reactor line located in Pata, Uttar Pradesh, India on 17th January 2019. GAIL's Metallocene LLDPE resin…
HTX Labs LLC (Houston; www.htxlabs.com) the creator of enterprise immersive training simulations and technology for global business entities and government institutes, and Solvay GBU Peroxides North America (www.solvay.com/en), an industry leader in advanced materials and specialty chemicals, announced today a…
McDermott International, Inc. (Houston; www.mcdermott.com) has been awarded a sizeable ($1–50 million) technology contract by Ningbo Union King Polyester Material Limited for the technology license, process design engineering, and operator training services for a large-scale, grassroots 1,600,000 ton/yr p-xylene plant…
ExxonMobil (www.exxonmobil.com) and SABIC (www.sabic.com) have decided to proceed with the construction of a chemical facility and 1.8-million metric ton ethane steam cracker in Texas. The joint-venture between ExxonMobil and SABIC, called Gulf Coast Growth Ventures, received final environmental regulatory…
Emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology are poised to make an impact on the chemical process industries (CPI) as the industries continue on the path to digital transformation. A recent report by Accenture titled Artificial Intelligence…