All Chemicals
World’s first X-ray machine capable of studying liquid surfaces
Added: 7 Jun 2012
A new liquid X-ray machine could significantly improve the performance catalysts
Biosensor detects one-billionth of a gram in minutes
Added: 1 Jun 2012
A new class of biosensor can detect exceptionally small traces of contaminants in liquids in 40 mi…
LyondellBasell nets award for energy-saving flare
Added: 1 Jun 2012
Houston, Texas –- LyondellBasell’s efforts to reduce energy consumption at its Houston refinery hav…
Energy Bill: When the chips are down
Added: 31 May 2012
Well done to the UK’s chip shop owners, who have managed to fight off a tax hike on hot takeaway fo…
Microreactors allow safe production of explosive materials
Added: 30 May 2012
Fraunhofer researchers have developed a microreactor for safer production of nitroglycerine
Chemicals industry optimistic despite debt crisis
Added: 28 May 2012
The global chemicals industry expects to see an improvement in business according to a study by Cer…
Energy Bill worries UK chemicals industry
Added: 28 May 2012
London – The proposals in the UK government’s draft Energy Bill could hit the UK chemicals industry…
Camera replaces 'sniffers' at Borealis polymer plant
Added: 25 May 2012
Stenungsund, Sweden – Borealis is using an optical gas imaging camera to detect potentially dangero…
Valero to use Invensys HF monitoring technology
Added: 23 May 2012
London – Invensys Operations Management, has signed a multi-year licensing agreement with Valero En…
Ma'aden advances Saudi phosphate project
Added: 22 May 2012
Pasadena, California – Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden) has awarded Jacobs Engineering Group …
SABIC adds ATEX cameras at Teesside site
Added: 21 May 2012
Middlesbrough, UK — SABIC UK Petrochemicals Ltd has installed ATEX explosion proof digital cameras …
Oxford Catalysts technology for Russian GTL plant
Added: 17 May 2012
Abingdon, UK – Microchannel Fischer-Tropsch (FT) reactor technology developed by the Oxford Catalys…
Green chemistry for polymers
Added: 17 May 2012
Cologne, Germany – In the long-term industry will have to find substitutes for fossil fuels as supp…
Eni: Euro2bn and new name for chemicals business
Added: 10 May 2012
Rome – Eni has renamed its Polimeri Europa division Versalis, as part of a major new investment str…
Manchester students net IChemE sustainability prize
Added: 10 May 2012
Manchester, UK – A project to turn corn waste into succinic acid has earned an international sustai…
Energy is the biggest concern for UK chemicals makers
Added: 9 May 2012
London - The continuing high cost of energy in the UK is a major barrier to future jobs and growth,…
Dow to tap further into shale-gas feedstock resources
Added: 9 May 2012
Midland, Michigan - Dow Chemical Co. is to construct a new world-scale ethylene production plant at…
US team claims bio-PET advance
Added: 8 May 2012
London - Chemical engineers in the US has discovered a new way to make monomer feedstock for PET bo…
Valves help PVS deliver ultra-pure sulphuric acid
Added: 8 May 2012
Ingolstadt, Germany – PVS Chemicals, which produces extremely pure chemicals for the semiconductor …
