Chemical Week :: EnviroTech :: Catalysts and Licensing http://www.chemweek.com Chemical Week en-us 2010 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 3:01:51 EDT Biofuels Firms Rated; New Order Emerges 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... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/catalysts_and_licensing/24679.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST BASF Holds Its Research Budget Steady for 2010 The company aims to spend €1.38 billion this year.... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/catalysts_and_licensing/24401.html Thu, 28 Jan 2010 0:00:00 EST 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... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/catalysts_and_licensing/24354.html Tue, 26 Jan 2010 0:00:00 EST 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... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/catalysts_and_licensing/24336.html Mon, 25 Jan 2010 0:00:00 EST 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... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/catalysts_and_licensing/24230.html Thu, 21 Jan 2010 0:00:00 EST 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... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/catalysts_and_licensing/24197.html Wed, 20 Jan 2010 0:00:00 EST 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... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/catalysts_and_licensing/24134.html Fri, 15 Jan 2010 0:00:00 EST 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... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/catalysts_and_licensing/24097.html Wed, 13 Jan 2010 0:00:00 EST Davy Methanation Technology Selected for Plant in China The process can be used in coal-to-chemical plants.... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/catalysts_and_licensing/24098.html Wed, 13 Jan 2010 0:00:00 EST 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... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/catalysts_and_licensing/23940.html Thu, 7 Jan 2010 0:00:00 EST