17.02.2017
- Europe's first multi-energy filling station in Berlin runs smoothly for more than two years. The higher-level process control system from Siemens monitors the networked plant and...
09.02.2017
- In one of its last press releases before being sidelined by the administration of new President Donald Trump, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported a cumulative 56%...
20.01.2017
- In November 2016 Global Bioenergies (GBE) completed the construction of the only demo plant in the world that is dedicated to the direct fermentation of gaseous hydrocarbons. It is...
20.01.2017
- Among the “firsts” launched at the 2017 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, were – unusually – two projects in which the global chemicals-related industry got its day in...
16.01.2017
- Japanese companies Toray Industries and Mitsui Sugar are forming a joint venture to demonstrate the technological feasibility of manufacturing cellulosic sugar from the surplus...
16.01.2017
- Scotland’s environmental protection agency, SEPA, has issued fines to 383 industrial companies or sites – including Ineos, BP and Syngenta at Grangemouth – for their “poor” or...
12.01.2017
- Dutch renewables group Avantium has acquired the assets of Liquid Light, a US company using waste CO2 to produce chemical, for an undisclosed sum. The deal, which effectively...
09.01.2017
- German specialty chemical company Altana has acquired the formulated resins business of Belgium’s Solvay for an undisclosed sum. Solvay originally gained the assets as part of its...
28.12.2016
- US conglomerate General Electric (GE) and Japanese contractor Toyo Engineering have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a joint project to explore digital solutions for...
22.12.2016
- In its final determination, the full International Trade Commission (ITC) has ruled that Umicore infringed the patents of BASF and Argonne National Laboratory for nickel-manganese...