CATALYSTS AND LICENSING

Grace Splits Davison Operating Segment

1:35 PM MST | February 8, 2012 | Rebecca Coons

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...

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Novozymes Collaborates on Seaweed-to-Biofuels Project in India

Enzymes group Novozymes says it has created an “exploratory research agreement” with Sea6 Energy (Chennai, India), a start-up biotech firm, to jointly develop an enzymatic process for converting seaweed-based carbohydrates to sugar, which can then...

Albemarle Adds Polyolefin Catalysts at Baton Rouge

Albemarle has installed a production train for finished polyolefin catalysts, which completes the expansion of its Process Development Center at Baton Rouge, LA. “The new train will add to the capacity in our existing facilities at the Process...

Endeavour Develops Process for Groundbreaking Liquid Cathode Fuel Cell

ACAL Energy (Runcorn, U.K.), a fuel cell technology company, has hired Endeavour Speciality Chemicals (Daventry, U.K.) to scale up a process for making a novel, liquid, non-precious metal cathode for proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells to be used in...

Chemical Industry Weekly Innovation Round-up, Jan 13

This past week has seen a raft of alternative energy technology developments in both the battery and fuel cell fields. BASF made another step forward in its quest to be the pre-eminent developer and producer of battery materials with the acquisition of...

Research: Polymer-based System Breaks Records for Capture of CO2

A group of U.S. scientists say they have successfully used solid materials based on fumed silica impregnated with polyethylenimine (PEI), a readily available and inexpensive polymeric material, to increase the levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) captured direct...

BASF to Upgrade, Consolidate Adsorbents Manufacturing

BASF is investing $20 million to upgrade its activated alumina adsorbent products plant at Vidalia, LA. The company will transfer all adsorbents capacity to Vidalia as part of the upgrade, and will close its Port Allen, LA adsorbents plant in 2013. The...

BASF Invests in Battery Technology and Materials

Kreimeyer: A more integrated approach to serving battery firms. BASF says it will invest more than €100 million ($135 million) to develop battery technology for vehicles during the next five years, including investments in R&D and the production of...

BASF to Invest Upward of $133 Million in Battery Technology, Create Global Business Unit

BASF says it will invest upward of €100 million ($133 million) in battery technology for vehicles during the next five years, including investment in R&D and the production of battery materials. As part of its plan to take advantage of a...

Materia Awarded Two Patents for Metathesis Catalysts

Materia (Pasadena, CA), a catalyst firm with an exclusive license for Grubbs catalyst technology, has been awarded two U.S. patents relating to the discovery of ruthenium organometallic complex catalysts. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued...

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