American renewable chemicals company Allylix has begun the production of valencene from fermentation in large scales, company officials say. The company now hopes to expand its technology to further industries.

The caravan moves on — while markets like China and India took the spotlight during the last years, the Middle East is about to tap into its industrial resources. Major plant projects boom in states like Bahrain. Now wonder that the country was able to attract companies like BASF, Siemens, DHL and many others …

Reverse osmosis is for the desalination and purification of water has been growing rapidly in industrial, municipal and waste water reuse. The technology is widely used, especially in areas of water stress such as the American West. Now, this revolutionary approach can be simulated reliably and accurately...

BASF celebrated the opening of has opened a new production plant for biocatalyzed acrylamide at its site in Nanjing Chemical Industrial Park, Nanjing, China. The plant has a capacity of more than 50,000 tons of biocatalyzed acrylamide per year.

This article describes how the existing deposition and growth of microorganisms-biofouling problem in the cooling loop of a refinery in Dubai and prevented it from further occurrence could be solved by Merus.

With a ten percent increase of it's Baytown Syngas facility, Oxea strengthens its production capacity for oxo-intermediates and oxo-derivatives.

Jacobs Engineering signed a sulfur recovery technology licensor agreement with Paqell, a joint venture between Shell Global Solutions and Paques, for use of its Thiopaq Oil and Gas technology in refineries and gas treating facilities across the globe.

The Dow Chemical Company and K2 Pure Solutions (K2 Pure) have celebrated the successful start-up of a new chlor-alkali plant at Dow’s Pittsburg, California site. The new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility will produce bleach to serve municipal water treatment facilities in Northern California. In addition, the plant will supply Dow’s Pittsburg operations with chlorine for the manufacture of crop protection products and other materials.

The new Delta Hybrid series of rotary lobe compressors from Aerzener Maschinenfabrik is a world first in creating a symbiosis between rotary lobe blowers (for a lower pressure range) and screw compressors (for a higher pressure range), for the first time ever permitting maximum pressure levels of up to 1.5 bar in pneumatic conveyance. In field trials at a milling operation it was rated “very good”.

The production of solids of different shapes directly from the melt by means of downstream installed cooling conveyors is offering advantages in comparison to other processing options. Ebbecke Verfahrenstechnik have recognized that and added pastillation by means of water cooling systems to their contract services offered.