19.02.2014
- Bioplastics producer Cereplast has filed for voluntary protection from creditors the Southern District of Illinois under the U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy code. The company intends to...
10.02.2014
- Seeking Solutions For Society - The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) issued a poster in the 1980s, extolling the virtues of chemical engineering. The narrative went...
04.02.2014
- Versatile Materials - Going beyond natural polymers, the use of bio-based monomers from biorefineries and "renewable oil," gained from plastics' and bio wastes, renders synthetic...
More Plastics, Less CO2 - Plastics are playing a pivotal role in the development of "green" vehicles. This is evident, for example, in a lightweight front-end carrier...
16.01.2014
- What Follows The Boom? - The two words on everyone's lips in recent years in the energy industry have been "shale boom." This article will lay out JBC Energy's view of the future...
09.01.2014
- Federal regulators are unlikely to step up enforcement of potential water contamination cases linked to natural gas drilling - despite new concerns about water safety - given a...
07.01.2014
- BASF has won the 2013 Product Line Strategy Leadership Award of Frost & Sullivan for its coatings raw material portfolio. The international consultancy said the Ludwigshafen...
17.12.2013
- The second instance of the Taiwan Intellectual Property Court confirmed that Atotech's Stannatech process and equipment were not affected by a competitor's patent. The judgment...
16.12.2013
- Every Player Counts - By now, everyone in the chemical industry is aware of REACH and in the best-case scenarios, every player knows what is expected of them under the law. But it...
16.12.2013
- The EU General Court has overturned on procedural grounds a 2010 decision by the European Commission (EC) authorizing sales of the genetically modified potato Amflora, developed by...