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BASF Holds Its Research Budget Steady for 2010

January 28, 2010 | Ian Young

The company aims to spend €1.38 billion this year....


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Tungsten Process Converts Petroleum-derived Feedstocks to Valuable Chemicals

Research chemists Gerard Parkin and Aaron Sattler from Columbia University (NY) say they have developed an organic compound containing tungsten that is able to break strong carbon-carbon bonds. The unusual activity of the compound could lead to new methods for...

Haldor Topsoe Secures $40-Million Contract with PetroPeru

Catalysts and process technology firm Haldor Topsøe (Lyngby, Denmark) says it has signed a deal with PetroPeru to supply technologies for three new plants in Peru. The contract includes licensing fees, basic engineering and process design for the...

Novozymes Grows in 2009, Expects a Boost from U.S. Biofuels in 2010

Novozymes (Copenhagen), an enzymes technology firm, says its operating profit for fourth quarter 2009 increased 16% to DKr 431 million ($81 million), compared to the year-ago period, with corresponding sales up 7% to DKr 2.2 billion. Operating profit margin...

Axens and Headwaters Create Coal Liquefaction Tech JV

Axens (Paris), a petrochemicals technology provider, and Headwaters (South Jordan, UT), a materials technology firm, say they have created a joint venture company Alliance DCL, to provide solutions for producing clean transport fuels via direct coal...

Grace and Chevron Convert Catalyst JV to Equal Partnership

W.R. Grace says it has completed the sale of a 5% stake in Advanced Refining Technologies (ART), a hydroprocessing catalysts joint venture with Chevron Products, to Chevron on November 30, 2009, and as a result, Grace has reduced its interest in ART from 55%...

Researchers Identify Zeolite Catalyst Imperfections, Route to Greater Efficiency

A team of researchers, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO;Den Haag, the Netherlands) has identified that building blocks of crystals that form zeolite catalysts are irregular and so can lead to significant inefficiencies of...

Davy Methanation Technology Selected for Plant in China

The process can be used in coal-to-chemical plants....

Dorf Ketal Acquires Specialty Catalysts Business of DuPont

Specialty chemicals company Dorf Ketal Chemicals (Mumbai) says it has acquired the specialty catalysts business, comprising of organometallic titanates, zirconates and specialty additives, of DuPont. The acquisition includes titanates and zirconates and...

Canadian Researchers Develop Iron Cataysts for Fuel Cells

Researchers at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunication (Varennes, PQ) say they are developing fuel cell catalysts based on iron instead of platinum. Commercial fuel cells based on...

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