The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) for April 2019 increased from the previous month’s value, reversing two months of small declines. The increase in April for the overall CEPCI is a result…
Zachry Group (San Antonio, Tex.; www.zachrygroup.com) and its partner Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc. (Houston, Tex.; www.mitsubishitoday.com) have been selected to construct a two-train polyethylene unit that will be part of a new chemical complex near Corpus Christi, Texas. The…
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…
A housing is not just there to hold a sensor firmly in place. With the right housing you can clean, calibrate or exchange sensors without stopping or contaminating the process. You can also dramatically increase sensor lifetime. Select the right…
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…
For over 50 years Pope Scientific has manufactured chemical processing equipment, engineered systems and laboratory apparatus for distillation, separation, purification and mixing applications. Along with complete turnkey processing equipment manufacturing, services offered include toll processing (customized contract distillation) for cost…
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…