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September 28, 2011
3M and Umicore have signed a second technology license agreement relating to nickel, manganese and cobalt (NMC) cathode materials in lithium-ion batteries. Umicore will manufacture and...
http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/3M-and-Umicore-Sign-Battery-Materials-Agreement_37916.html
September 26, 2011
The Bundesrat, the German parliament’s upper house, on Friday voted to block legislation that would have allowed the pilot-scale underground storage of compressed carbon dioxide...
http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/Germany-Votes-to-Reject-Carbon-Storage_37848.html
September 26, 2011
Procter & Gamble (P&G) says it has entered into a master collaboration agreement with Hebrew University of Jerusalem to develop new ingredients for P&G products using...
http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/P-and-G-Partners-with-Hebrew-University_37820.html
September 26, 2011
Photo courtesy of West Virginia Department of Commerce (www.wvcommerce.org). Kureha PGA, a subsidiary of Kureha Corp. (Tokyo), says it has begun operations at a previously announced...
http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/Kureha-Begins-PGA-Production_37817.html
September 23, 2011
This Week on CW:   The global PE and PP industry will benefit from growing demand from emerging economies and cheap shale gas in the U.S., attendees at PEPP 2011 said this week in...
http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Chemical-Industry-Weekly-News-Round-Up-Sept-23_37780.html
September 23, 2011
The quality of the data featured in Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (Reach) dossiers submitted by industry in 2010 is a problem that industry must address...
http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/EU-Reviews-First-Phase-of-Reach-Dossier-Quality-a-Problem_37762.html
September 22, 2011
Protéus (Nimes, France), a biotech firm and subsidiary of PCAS (Longjumeau, France) has successfully completed a development milestone in a project for Syngenta to optimize...
http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/Syngenta-Progresses-Optimization-of-Sugar-Cane-for-Biofuel_37733.html
September 21, 2011
Carbon emissions reporting practices in the global materials sector, which includes chemicals, are about in line with norms across industry, according to a new report by the Carbon...
http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Materials-Sector-Carbon-Disclosure-Practices-Near-Global-Norms_37731.html
September 21, 2011
Electrochaea (St. Louis, MO), a start-up company says it plans to begin industrial-scale testing of a proprietary anaerobic technology that converts waste CO2 and excess electric power...
http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/U-S-Firm-Pilots-Technology-to-Convert-Excess-Electricity-Waste-CO2-into-Natural-Gas_37709.html
September 20, 2011
Mascoma (Lebanon, NH), a renewable fuels and chemicals firm targeting the conversion of hardwood biomass feedstocks, has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) worth up to $100...
http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/Mascoma-Files-for-$100-Million-IPO_37685.html
September 20, 2011
H.C. Starck and the Clausthaler Umwelttechnik-Institut (Cutec; Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany), a technology institute, have jointly developed a novel family of catalysts along with a...
http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/H-C-Starck-and-Cutec-Develop-Catalysts-for-Generating-Natural-Gas_37692.html
September 19, 2011
Eastman Chemical, like many companies in the chemical industry, considers the development of sustainably advantaged products a major growth opportunity, and improvement of...
http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/Eastman-Chemical-Broadens-Definition-of-Sustainability_37302.html
September 19, 2011
Bernard Roche, President and CEO, Arkema Inc.   For those of us who read and rely on this magazine each week, we recognize that chemistry is at the heart of all we do, and that...
http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/International-Year-of-Chemistry-Chemistry-is-our-life-our-future_37669.html
September 19, 2011
A study by U.S. researchers has found indications that synthetic carbon nanoparticles (CNPs) at relatively low environmental exposure rates could have an adverse impact on living cells...
http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/Carbon-Nanotubes-Study-Indicates-they-Can-Damage-Biological-Barriers-in-People_37668.html
September 16, 2011
This Week on CW:   Sasol is planning to invest about $10 billion in a gas-to-liquids chemicals complex in Louisiana.   DuPont was awarded $920 million in its suit against...
http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Chemical-Industry-Weekly-News-Round-Up-Sept-16_37665.html
September 16, 2011
Innovation news this week is dominated by DuPont’s $919.9 million award in damages in a lawsuit against Kolon Industries (Gyeonggi-Do, Korea) over the theft of trade secrets and...
http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/Chemical-Industry-Innovation-News-Round-up-September-2_37648.html
September 16, 2011
Evonik says it has broken ground on the construction of a previously announced biodiesel catalyst plant at Puerto General San Martin, Argentina.   The detail engineering of the...
http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Evonik-Breaks-Ground-on-Catalyst-Plant-in-Argentina_37645.html
September 15, 2011
U.S. EPA has extended the deadline for reporting of inputs to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions equations for 2010 and 2011 until March 2013, and 2012 and 2013 until March 2015, the...
http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/EPA-Extends-Deadline-for-GHG-Emissions-Input-Reporting_37641.html
September 13, 2011
Gevo received two patents related to its yeast-based isobutanol production process, the company says. The two patents, "Yeast Organism Producing Isobutanol at a High Yield,"...
http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Gevo-Receives-Isobutanol-Patents-Counter-Sues-DuPont_37581.html
September 9, 2011
This Week on CW:   At CW's China conference in Tianjin, attendees discussed new basic chemicals projects in China, which would add massive amounts of capacity to the ethylene...
http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Chemical-Industry-Weekly-News-Round-Up-Sept-9_37537.html
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