Construction has started in Qinzhou, China, on the first commercial plant to use a new…

A combined coal-gasification and methane-reforming process using coal char as catalyst has been developed by…

A hydrometallurgical process for nickel laterite deposits — believed to be the only process capable…

Evonik Industries’ business unit Performance Polymers (www.evonik.com) is planning to construct a new plant for…

A new SM process Exelus Inc. (Livingston, N.J.; www.exelusinc.com) received a $500,000 grant from the…

Aerzen Maschinenfabrik GmbH (Aerzen, Germany; www.aerzen.com) has commercialized the first rotary lobe compressor, the Delta…

A microreactor system for producing hydrogen peroxide from H2 and O2 has been developed by…

In order to shift the country’s energy base from petroleum, the Indonesian government has implemented…

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has developed an industrially viable process for synthesizing metal organic…

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Ineos Industries Holdings Limited (Lyndhurst, U.K.; www.ineos.com) have announced…

ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) and Baldor Electric Co. (Fort Smith, Ark.) have agreed that ABB…

Lummus Technology (The Woodlands, Tex.), a CB&I company (www.cbi.com), has been awarded a contract by…

The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) has increased its monopropylene glycol (MPG) capacity by…

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has signed a purchase agreement to acquire the styrene catalysts…

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF; Bonn, Germany) has pledged €2.2 million in…

Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed a long-term contract with Tongmei Guangfa Chemical Industry…

SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal; Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded a contract by Bariq Mining to provide…

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) will deliver sintering and ferrochrome smelting technology for the expansion…

Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has begun supplying BP’s petroleum-refinery complex in Whiting, Indiana, with…

After four years of construction, Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) and Dow Corning Corp.…

The technology group The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) is set to further expand its…

In Elyria, Ohio, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has commenced construction of a more than…

The Global Power Group of Foster Wheeler AG’s (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) has been awarded a…

The signing of a deal in Essen on November 11, 2010, sees SKC (Seoul, Korea)…

At the end of 2011, the Russian company Korund Cyan will commission, in the Nizhny…

UOP LLC (Des Planes, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.…

With a view to future growth markets for paper chemicals and dyestuffs in China, Indonesia…

JGC Gulf International, JGC Corp.’s (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) subsidiary in Saudi Arabia, has been awarded…

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) today announced China’s first air separation…

Teijin Ltd. (Tokyo; www.teijin.co.jp) announced today that it will enter the high-performance polyethylene (HP-PE) market…

Bayer MaterialScience (BMS; Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayerbms.com) is driving forward the modernization of its production sites…

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) will invest in converting the mercury-based electrolysis into better performing…

Chevron Corp. (San Ramon, Cakif.; www.chevron.com) and Atlas Energy, Inc. (Philadelphia, Pa.; www.atlasenergyresources.com) announced today…

Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has agreed to acquire two businesses from Flexsys, a division…

Turkey is currently undergoing very dynamic development; the Turkish economy saw growth of more than…

Joint Venture Panama (JVP), a joint venture led (70%) by SNC-Lavalin (Montreal, Canada; www.snclavalin.com), along…

Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) plans to construct manufacturing facilities in China and the U.S.…

Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com) and the Chinese energy group China Power Investment Corp. (CPI)…

SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract…

When automating fluid handling processes, it is critical to ensure that you are using the…

When tanks are draining, the potential may exist for a swirling vortex to form leading…

In obtaining a degree or even a professional license in chemical engineering, there is little,…

Although proper water treatment and conditioning for combined-cycle units and standalone steam generators are vitally…

One of the best ways to realize value from your process data is to use…