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ENVIROTECH

Grace Splits Davison Operating Segment

W.R. Grace says it has reorganized its businesses into three operating segments—Catalysts Technologies, Grace Materials Technologies and Grace Construction Products—to better align itself with the markets it serves, gain operational efficiencies...

AkzoNobel Steps up Research into Anticorrosion Coatings

AkzoNobel has unveiled a five-year research partnership with the University of Manchester (Manchester, U.K.) to investigate the science of anti-corrosion coatings. When the research begins April 1 of this year it will be the world’s largest academic...


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Environment

EPA Misses Deadline for Finalizing its Dioxin Assessment

EPA has missed its self-imposed January 31 deadline for issuing its assessment of dioxin’s potential noncancer health effects. Industry groups have argued the proposed reference dose, or recommended limit, for dioxin would make much of the...

Regulatory

Solvay Commissions Largest PEM Fuel Cell

Solvay joint venture SolVin has commissioned a 1 MW proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell at its production complex at Antwerp. The PEM fuel cell, which Solvay describes as a “demonstration” unit, is the largest of its kind in the world, Solvay...

R&D

Sabic-IP Opens Polymer Pilot Facility at Mt. Vernon, IN

Sabic Innovative Plastics (Sabic-IP; Pittsfield, MA) says it has opened a new pilot facility at Mt. Vernon, IN for chemistry and process development for its high performance polymers (HPP) sold under the trade name Ultem, Siltem and Extem. The facility will...

Innovation

Petrobras and Novozymes Sign Biofuel Partnership

The agreement covers the development of enzymes and production processes....

Sustainability

3M to Expand Solar Film Production

The films, named 3M Ultra Barrier Solar Film, lower module manufacturing costs by replacing glass in rigid PV modules....











 
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