Current Headlines
- Zeon Group Begins Full-Scale Production Of Aroma Chemicals With Expanded Production Facilities 2/14/2024
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Researchers Investigate Process To Allow Carbon-Neutral Ammonia Production
2/14/2024
Ammonia (NH3) is an energy-dense chemical that is a vital component of the agricultural industry and has the potential to be used as a carbon-free alternative fuel.
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Oulu Energy Plans A 100 MW Hydrogen Plant In Oulu, Finland
2/14/2024
Oulu Energy is planning to build a 100 megawatts (MW) hydrogen production plant in Oulu, northern Finland. When completed, the plant would be a big step towards clean energy production and thus a natural part of Oulu Energy’s goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030.
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World’s First Pilot Plant For Bio-Based Aniline
2/13/2024
Covestro is moving forward with the implementation of a unique process for producing the important chemical aniline entirely based on plant biomass instead of petroleum for the first time. At its Leverkusen site, the plastics manufacturer has now put a special pilot plant into operation for this purpose.
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Sunfire Successfully Installs First Industrial-Scale Electrolysis Plant In Finland
2/13/2024
Finland's first industrial-scale electrolysis plant has been installed in Harjavalta, one year after the groundbreaking ceremony. The project partners expect production of green hydrogen in the second half of the year. A purchase agreement has already been signed.
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Grace Licenses Second UNIPOL Polypropylene Process Technology Reactor To China Coal Shaanxi Energy & Chemical Group Co., Ltd.
2/13/2024
W. R. Grace & Co. (Grace), the world’s leading independent supplier of polyolefin catalyst technology and polypropylene (PP) process technology, today announced that China Coal Shaanxi Energy & Chemical Group Co., Ltd. (China Coal Shaanxi Company) has expanded its license for Grace’s UNIPOL PP process technology, doubling its polypropylene production capacity from 300 to 600 kilotons per annum (KTA).
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Solvay Completes Coal Phase-Out At Its US Green River Soda Ash Plant
2/12/2024
From the entrances of its Green River, Wyoming soda ash plant and Brussels headquarters, Solvay leaders announced the successful completion of the North American-based facility’s coal phase-out initiative.
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Oregon State University Research Makes Key Advance For Capturing Carbon From The Air
2/11/2024
A chemical element so visually striking it was named for a goddess shows a “Goldilocks” level of reactivity – neither too much nor too little – that makes it a strong candidate as a carbon scrubbing tool.
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Evonik And Uniper Launch Sustainable District Heating Project For Germany’s Ruhr Region
2/9/2024
Evonik and Uniper officially launched the Technical Options for Thermal Energy Recovery (TORTE) project today in Gelsenkirchen. As one of the first phases of Evonik’s ‘Herne Green Deal’ to sustainably transform the Herne chemical site, the TORTE project will feed industrial waste heat from isophorone production into the district heating network.
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Molecular Manganese Complex As Superphotooxidant
2/9/2024
Highly reducing or oxidizing photocatalysts are a fundamental challenge in photochemistry. Only a few transition metal complexes with Earth-abundant metal ions have so far advanced to excited state oxidants, including chromium, iron, and cobalt.