FMC has acquired the assets of Adventus Intellectual Property (Mississauga, Ontario), a an environmental technology and services company from investment firms Covington Capital and VentureLink Innovation Fund, the company says. Terms of the deal were not...
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD; Geneva) has introduced a guide to enhance business understanding of the value of natural resources, including fresh water, food, fiber and natural hazard protection. WBCSD’s guide to Corporate Ecosystem Valuation (CEV) will enable firms to explicitly account for the full value of ecosystem impacts and inputs, including the benefits derived from ecosystems as well as the costs associated with their loss, the group says....
A study released today by Standard & Poor's (S&P; New York) and the World Resources Institute (WRI) found that federal climate action is unlikely to pose a major credit risk to U.S chemical companies. Ten of thirteen commodity chemical sub-sectors...
Fine chemicals producer Siegfried (Zofingen. Switzerland) says it has signed an agreement to sell its waste treatment and disposal facilities at its Zofingen site to EBM Group, (Münchenstein, Switzerland), a waste processing company. EBM has paid...
CW’s analysis of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from top diversified chemical companies reveals that emissions at many firms fell from 2008 to 2009, primarily due to reduced production during the economic downturn. Despite the drop in production many...
Halliburton, which was subpoenaed by EPA last week for its refusal to voluntarily disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracking, has launched a new website identifying the chemicals. The website lists the chemicals but does not disclose their concentrations...
Veolia Innovation Accelerator, an innovation outsourcing program launched earlier this year by the environmental services giant Veolia (Paris), has attracted interest from 150 companies across the water, waste and energy management businesses, the company...
Bayer says it has begun offering expertise in process and plant safety to chemical and pharmaceutical companies via its business unit Bayer Technology Services (BTS). The new service is underpinned by expertise from Bayer’s former process and plant...
BASF, energy firm Inpex (Tokyo), and engineering firm JGC (Yokohama, Japan) say they have jointly entered into an agreement to carry out demonstration tests on the effectiveness of a novel carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology to capture and recover CO2...
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