Current Headlines

  1. Scientists Harness Plants' Plasticity To Make Key Industrial Chemical 11/19/2025

    A team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has engineered poplar trees to produce valuable chemicals that can be used to make biodegradable plastics and other products.

  2. Using Theory And Data To Create New Single Atom Catalysts For Cleaner Chlorine Production 11/19/2025

    Chlorine is an essential industrial chemical used in products ranging from disinfectants to plastics. Yet producing chlorine requires the chlorine evolution reaction (CER), a process that consumes a significant amount of electricity worldwide.

  3. BASF Inaugurates The Expansion Of Production Capacity For Alkyl Polyglucosides (APGs) In Bangpakong, Thailand 11/19/2025

    BASF today announced the expansion of its Alkyl Polyglucosides (APGs) footprint in Asia with a new plant at the Bangpakong site in Thailand.

  4. A Greener Recipe For Ammonia 11/18/2025

    While ammonia production is critical to the world’s food supply—up to 90% of ammonia goes toward making fertilizer for agriculture—the process of converting hydrogen and nitrogen to ammonia leaves a significant carbon footprint, contributing to 1 to 2% of global energy consumption and CO2 emissions annually.

  5. Bay City Plant Utilizing LiMA Technology Reaches 75% Production Capacity 11/18/2025

    In March 2025, Röhm successfully commissioned its state-of-the-art plant in Bay City (Texas, USA) featuring the company’s proprietary LiMA (“Leading in Methacrylates”) C2 technology for the production of methyl methacrylate (MMA). Over the past months, the plant has been gradually ramped up and is currently operating multiple reactors at nameplate capacity.

  6. Researchers Achieve Durable Acidic CO2 Electroreduction To Formic Acid Through Metal-Phase Protection Strategy 11/18/2025

    The electroreduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) into valuable chemicals and fuels typically operates under alkaline or neutral conditions, but the carbonation side reaction causes carbon loss.

  7. Monument Chemical Launches Poly-CO2: High Performance Polyols From Captured Carbon 11/17/2025

    Monument has begun the first US-based production of polyols from renewable carbon this month at its manufacturing facility in Brandenburg, KY.

  8. HORIBA's Gas And Liquid Analysis And Measurement Instruments Adopted For INPEX's 'Blue Hydrogen And Ammonia Production And Usage Demonstration Project' 11/17/2025

    HORIBA, Ltd. (President: Masayuki Adachi, hereinafter “HORIBA”) has provided a comprehensive suite of gas and liquid analysis and measurement instruments for the Blue Hydrogen*1 and Ammonia*2 Production and Usage Demonstration Project led by INPEX CORPORATION (Representative Director, President & CEO: Takayuki Ueda, hereinafter “INPEX”).

  9. New Sun-Powered Reactor Makes Carbon Dioxide Recycling Cheaper And More Efficient 11/14/2025

    When William Hemmingson came to UNC-Chapel Hill for his Ph.D. in materials chemistry, he joined a lab tackling one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time: finding practical ways to recycle carbon dioxide, the gas most responsible for climate change. 

  10. LanzaJet Makes History As The World's First To Produce Jet Fuel From Ethanol At Commercial-Scale Plant Delivering The Next Generation Fuel Solution For Aviation 11/13/2025

    LanzaJet, Inc., a leading next-gen fuels technology company and fuels producer, today announced that it has fully operated and produced fuels at its LanzaJet Freedom Pines Fuels facility in Soperton, Georgia, USA – marking both the world’s first production of jet fuel using ethanol as a feedstock at a commercial-scale plant, and the first non-oil-based renewable solution compatible with today’s aircraft.