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CEFIC Says Chemicals Can Help Decarbonize Transport

27.07.2016 - Commenting on the European Commission’s publication last week of its strategy to decarbonize the EU transport sector, Marco Mensink, director general of the European Chemistry...

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Scottish Greens Call for Grangemouth Nationalization

01.09.2015 - Research commissioned by the Green Party in Scotland is claimed to show that a transition from fossil fuels to green energy could create 200,000 jobs across the UK’s northernmost...

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Canada As The World’s Green Global Leader

31.08.2015 - Renewing Possibility — What is green chemistry? Simply put, it is chemicals made from renewable resources. It is not a new concept. In 1941, Henry Ford unveiled a “field-grown”...

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Energy in 2014: A Year of Change

27.07.2015 - (CHEManager International 7-8/2015) World consumption 2014 was a remarkable year in the world of energy. The eerie calm that had characterized energy markets in the few years prior...

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DuPont Technology for Cellulose Ethanol in China Biofuels

20.07.2015 - New Tianlong Industry Co. Ltd. (NTL) plans to license technology from DuPont for use in what will be the People’s Republic’s largest cellulosic ethanol manufacturing plant, located...

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Atul Thakrar New Head of DSM’s Bio-based Products & Services

01.07.2015 - Atul Thakrar has joined Dutch chemical producer DSM as head of the Bio-based Products & Services unit, effective July 1. In his most recent prior position, he served as president...

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Total Spending €600 Million on Refinery Conversions

24.04.2015 - Total has revealed plans to revamp and upgrade two of its five refineries in France to meet the demands of new markets and restore profitability. The oil and petrochemicals giant...

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Shell JV in Brazil Invests Heavily in Ethanol

07.01.2015 - Raízen, a joint venture of oil and petrochemicals group Shell with Brazil's Cosan, will spend nearly $1 billion on building eight second generation bioethanol plants for the...