Ineos goes digital plant: The chemical producer uses Intergraph's CAD Worx plant design suit to standardize and automate work processes, minimize the amount of transposition errors and increase integration, speakers explained...

A multi-year collaboration between researchers within Resource Recovery at the University of Borås and a textile manufacturing company has resulted in a new type of reactor made of a textile material. The reactor transforms different kinds of waste into new products, such as biofuel.

A new project at Jacobs University is set to drastically simplify the application and implementation of biocatalytic processes in industrial practice.

Reliance Industries has appointed Texan based Fluor with project management services at its its world scale Jamnagar refining and petrochemical complex in Western India, wehere the company plans one of the largest coke gasification facilities worldwide.

Chemicals giant Bayer plans to get rid of the remaining material science and polymers business: The company wants to focus on life science solutions, bringing its subsidiary Bayer material Science on the stock market by 2016. Already in 2004, the company had divested large parts of its speciality chemicals and polymer business into the new formed Lanxess.

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has been granted the first patent for a method to simultaneously extract carbon dioxide and hydrogen from seawater. This single process provides all the raw materials necessary for the production of synthetic liquid hydrocarbon fuels.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, together with an international team of researchers, found a way to boost the energy output of biofuel cells by storing and bundling the energy of many spontaneous enzyme reactions.

Songwon of Korea buys the speciality chemicalsoperations of Indian SeQuent Scientific: The acquisition includes Sequent's entire polymer stabilizer business and one production site in Panoli, Gujarat, together with the local R&D team.

Both the firms have chosen Yanbu which is located on the west coast of Saudi Arabia as the site for establishing the project. On completion, the complex is expected to process 400,000 barrels per day of crude oil and produce approximately 9 million tonnes of chemicals and base oils in a year.

Growth from the steppe – Azerbaijan, commonly known for its oil productions, has also a thriving petrochemical and downstream business: In 2011, the country's chemicals industry was one of the strongest non-oil industrial segments for the year, with 36% growth, while rubber and plastic output rose 25%, new figures show...