Six companies have newly joined ACC, the group announced today. The six include Clariant Corporation (Charlotte, NC), Cray Valley USA (Exton, PA), Pflaumer Brothers (Ewing, NJ), Southern Chemical (Houston), VanDeMark...
Some start-ups entering the biofuels sector already are revealing themselves as winners in certain market applications even though there is no shortage of mature biofuel companies, according to a new report by Lux Research (Boston, MA), a financial analyst...
OriginOil (Los Angeles), a start-up company developing a process for converting algae into oil, says it has commissioned its pilot facility at its Los Angeles headquarters. The company says it now has an end-to-end algae-to-oil production facility in...
Dow Chemical's venture capital group has made a $1.5 million investment in Clean Filtration Technologies, Inc. (Redwood City, CA), the companies announced today. Clean Filtration Technologies is the maker of a water filtration device designed to reduce total...
Pamela Butcher, who had previously spend 29 years with Dow Chemical in a number of executive leadership posts, has been named COO of Pilot Chemical (Cincinatti), the company says. She...
The underwriters of Kraton Polymers' December IPO have exercised their option to buy 887,082 extra shares in the company, Kraton announced today. The shares will be...
Reliance Industries has revived plans to build para -xylene, purified terephthalic acid (PTA), and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle resins plants and changed the configuration of a planned world-scale steam cracker, CW has learned. The projects had...
The companies have signed an agreement covering joint studies for the proposed complex....
Iofina (London), a fledgling producer of natural gas and iodine, is starting to realize its strategy to produce commercial volumes of natural gas, iodine and iodine derivatives in the U.S. The company projects a substantial scale up in production during this...