In the recent years we all have been reading and hearing about what the Indians have been doing in the areas of IT, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and petrochemicals etc. They have accomplished all through desire, creativity and Jugaad. Recent issue of...
Construction of the Y2.6 billion ($29 million) plant began in early November at Mitsubishi Chemicals' Mizushima, Japan site and is expected to be completed in July of 2010....
The company says it is in negotiations with ThyssenKrupp Uhde to build the plant, which is due onstream at the beginning of 2011....
ExxonMobil Chemical president delivers keynote address....
TMO Renewables (Guildford, U.K.), a start-up biotech firm says it has developed a process capable of cost effectively converting at least 25 different biofeedstocks into ethanol, making it one of the most versatile processes established. TMO has sucessfully...
Lonza says it has today opened its new microbial control formulations plant at Nanjing, China. The plant is focused on the manufacturing of formulations but is also capable of manufacturing quaternary compounds. The plant will manufacture registered...
The year was 2004. I was standing on the top of a ladder painting my son’s bedroom and listening to the BBC’s news on the radio when a spokesman for Dow Chemical announced that the company was going to give billions of dollars to clean up the...
Researchers led by J. Craig Venter at the J. Craig Venter Research Institute (Rockville, MD) in a paper published recently in the journal Science, indicate that they are closer to a system for designing artificial organisms. The researchers state in...
Chemical Engineers during their training are taught that they will commercialize and/or operate a process that will produce consistent quality product all the time (without re-work) using a safe, sustainable and an economic process. To achieve these...