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World’s Largest PolyTHF Plant Now in Operation in China

After less than two years of construction, BASF has started up its new PolyTHF® (polytetrahydrofuran) plant at the integrated production site at the Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park (SCIP) in Caojing, Shanghai. By t...

22 Mar 2005

Studies May Help Identify Best Materials for Variety of Future Electronics Applications

Flexible displays that can be folded up in your pocket? More accurate biological and chemical sensors? Biocompatible electronics. In research that may help determine the best materials for a wide range of future electron...

22 Mar 2005

Cyclics First CBT Resin Manufacturing Plant On Stream

The Cyclics Corporation announced the commissioning of its first manufacturing plant located in Schwarzheide, Germany. The plant has an initial capacity of 2500 metric tonnes (5.5 million pounds) of CBT resin. CBT resins...

22 Mar 2005

Eastman Presents Solutions for the Coatings Industry

Carlo Testa, supervisor, chemicals, Eastman Chemical Company will deliver a paper detailing a variety of coatings industry solutions as part of the Rompaint – Pintumed 2005 International Conference in Bucharest, Ro...

22 Mar 2005

Huntsman to Purchase Technology for World-Scale Low Density Polyethylene Plant

Huntsman and ExxonMobil Chemical have announced that they have signed a Contract for Huntsman to purchase a Technology License from ExxonMobil for a world-scale low density polyethylene (LDPE) manufacturing facility Hunt...

22 Mar 2005

Lanxess Showcases Innovative Plastic/Metal Hybrid Technology

Lanxess Corporation, in cooperation with Venture Plastics, Inc., will highlight the benefits of Plastic/Metal Hybrid (PMH) Technology at the annual Precision Metalforming Association’s METALFORM Conference and Expo...

22 Mar 2005

Young Polymer Scientist a Real Star

University of Melbourne student Luke Connal has been awarded the RACI Polymer Division’s 2004 O’Donnell Young Scientist Prize. The prize is awarded to one Australian each year. It is offered as a traveling ...

22 Mar 2005

Faraday Plastics Leverages £22m for Plastics Sector Research

In the past twelve months the Faraday Plastics and Polymers Partnership, the UK's plastics research and development facilitator, has succeeded in helping to raise a total of some £22m in research funding for th...

22 Mar 2005

Environmentally Safe Catalyst proves More Active in Hydrogen Production

Ohio State University engineers have developed a chemical catalyst that increases hydrogen production without using a toxic metal common to other catalysts. Though the new catalyst is still in the early stages of testin...

22 Mar 2005

Loss of Sulphur Atom Reduces Activity of Catalyst

Chemical catalysts used to produce clean fuels gradually become less active. Dutch researcher Bas Vogelaar believes that the loss of sulphur atoms might be an important cause of this. He investigated hydroprocessing cata...

22 Mar 2005

Siemens to Expand Cooperation with Helmholtz Association - Focus on Energy Technology

Siemens AG and the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centers have signed an agreement in Erlangen on continuing, expanded exchange of know-how. The two partners want to expand their successful cooperation in co...

22 Mar 2005

Ceram Provide Critical Greenhouse Gas Emission Testing

Companies who are required to have their raw materials analysed for CO2 emissions can turn to CERAM, who are accredited to undertake the relevant testing and reporting. CERAM, the internationally renowned centre for m...

22 Mar 2005

Mittal Steel Signs Letter of Intent to Build Continuous Caster

Mittal Steel Company N.V. has announced that its Polish subsidiary, Mittal Steel Poland, has signed a letter of intent to construct a new continuous caster at Dabrowa Gornicza. This investment forms a significant ...

22 Mar 2005

Malvern Appoints Market Specialist for Zetasizer Nano Protein Applications

Malvern Instruments Ltd has appointed Ulf Nobbmann PhD to the new role of Market Specialist, Biophysical Characterization. Based at the company’s headquarters in Malvern, UK, he will be responsible for supporting p...

22 Mar 2005

Crompton to Sell Refined Products Business to Sun Capital Partners Group

Crompton Corporation has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Refined Products business to Sun Capital Partners Group Inc. for $80 million, subject to adjustment. The transaction is subject to ...

22 Mar 2005