At the end of last year, a Chinese isocyanate manufacturer awarded SGL Group another contract for a recovery system for the reprocessing and use of hydrogen chloride (HCI). The order value is in the mid single-digit million euro range.

The digital EE871 probe from E+E Elektronik measures CO2 concentrations up to 50,000 ppm. The compact probe is now available with a special filter cap which ensures high accuracy and long-term stability in H2O2 contaminated environment such as the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

A consortium of companies comprising Air Liquide, Akzo Nobel Specialty Chemicals, Enerkem and the Port of Rotterdam has signed a project development agreement covering initial investments in an advanced waste-to-chemistry facility in Rotterdam.

Akzo Nobel Specialty Chemicals, DSM, Google and Philips have started receiving power from the Bouwdokken wind farm in the Netherlands. The companies established an energy purchasing consortium that enabled construction of two Dutch wind farm projects.

Sumitomo, PTT Global Chemical Public Company and Kuraray have been jointly conducting a detailed feasibility study on the production and sale of butadiene derivatives in Thailand. The partners recently concluded a joint venture agreement.

CAC has been awarded a contract by Neolyse Ibbenbüren – a production joint venture of Evonik and Akzo Nobel – for the performance of EPCM services as general contractor for a new membrane electrolysis to be constructed at the Akzo Nobel site in Ibbenbüren, Germany.

Learn how a special type of pumping technology, positive displacement (PD) solid-body plastic air-operated double-diaphragm (AODD) pumps, possesses the design and construction features that are necessary to guarantee full containment of dangerous chemicals, while also offering working characteristics that enable the highest level of operational efficiency to be achieved.

Methanol could be the answer of the one big question of the petrochemistry: How to become more independent from crude oil? Again China is being a trailblazer. A lot of Chinese plants convert methanol to petrochemicals. Scientists at ETH Zurich have now deciphered the complex chemistry behind the start of this process.

Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz GmbH (CAC) has announced the completion of its first chlor-alkali electrolysis plant in Germany.

On August 1st, 2013, Karsten Radtke took over as Chief Executive Officer of Uhde Corporation of America, a business partner of ThyssenKrupp Uhde. The current economic trends in the US are good news for Uhde Corporation of America, which has offices in Greenwood Village, Colorado and Bridgeville, Pennsylvania.