Air pollution and greenhouse gases from industry cost Europe between 59 and 189 billion Euro in 2012. This is the conclusion of the report 'Costs of air pollution from European industrial facilities – an updated assessment' released by the European Environment Agency (EEA).

A energy management system helps to cut the electricity bill at Bayer's Material Science business: By controlling the individual consumption of specific plants, the system helps to reduce energy demand by an average of a tenth, Bayer states. Now the Germans plan to license their technology.

Trinseo has signed a definitive agreement with The Dow Chemical Company to acquire latex production facilities and related infrastructure at Rheinmünster, Germany. Consideration for the transaction is approximately $ 44.9 million in the form of assumed pension liabilities for transferred employees.

Although oil production has reached historic levels, the gradual shift in the fuel mix affects the global energy bill: New and alternative energies as well as unconventional natural gas (shale gas) drive the transition away from oil and coal. With Venezuela and Mexico, two Latin American states made their way into the global oil producer's top–ten. Still, the OPEC states look optimistically into the future...

Foster Wheeler's Global Engineering and Construction subsidiary provides a new Terrace Wall steam reformer heater for a refinery project in Kazakhstan. The proprietary Terrace Wall technology combines high flexibility with long catalysts life, the company states.

Praxair has started up a hydrogen facility that will recover by-product streams from The Dow Chemical Company’s Freeport, Texas operations.

BP sells the next US refinery: The company has agreed to divest its Texas City facility to Marathon Petroleum for US $ 2.5 Billion. Its the second sale of a BP refinery in the US this year.

The acquisition is expected to strengthen DSM Material’s’ position in the Indian engineering plastics industry and also allows the firm to grow its business in the country without investing heavily in capital expenditures.

Plastic component in cars and automobiles don't have to look and feel cheap: More and more car manufacturers discover polycarbonate as a material for numerous variants of specially designed car interiors. Companies like Bayer and Gerhardi have developed specially tailored solutions to bring polycarbonates on the street.

Lets face a simple fact: Paint sludge is a hazardous waste that poses serious risk for both health and environment – yet they often an not be avoided in the process industry. Now, after four years of research, Indian experts were to convert paint sludge into industrial primers, that conform to every specification of the user industry...