EMERGING COMPANIES

Start-up Brings Algae-to-Oil Pilot Plant On-line

February 8, 2010 | Alex Scott

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...

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Dow Invests in Filtration Technology Start-Up

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...

Pilot Chemical Names Former Dow Exec COO

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...

Kraton IPO Underwriters Exercise Stock Option

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 Revives P-xylene, PTA, PET; May Alter Cracker

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...

Oman Oil and Abu Dhabi's IPIC Team up for Petchem Project in Oman

The companies have signed an agreement covering joint studies for the proposed complex....

Iofina Drills into Iodine Chemicals Opportunity

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...

Aramco and Dow Outline Ras Tanura Scope and Schedule

Saudi Aramco and Dow Chemical, partners in the previously announced multibillion-dollar Ras Tanura Integrated Project (RTIP), have outlined the joint venture’s scope and timing. The announcement confirms earlier reports that the complex is not expected...

Start-up Converts Chemical Firms' Waste Hydrogen into Electricity

Start up firm AFC Energy (Cranleigh, U.K.) says it has begun offering chemical firms an alkaline fuel cell system that can efficiently convert their waste hydrogen into electricity. AFC says the payback for the technology can be less than two years and...

Saudi Arabia’s NCC Forms Tanker JV with Odfjell

National Chemical Carriers (NCC; Riyadh) has agreed to form a 50-50 joint venture with Odfjell (Bergen, Norway) that will operate the largest chemical tankers in the partners’ respective fleets...

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