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02-03-2012 Arkema has finalized the acquisition of Chinese companies Hipro Polymers, a producer of specialty biosourced polyamides 10.10, and Casda Biomaterials, a producer of sebacic acid processed from castor oil.«This acquisition represents a large development potential for Arkema. It offers signif ... more
02-03-2012 Carl Zeiss Semiconductor Metrology Systems (SMS) Division has opened an office in the Bundang province of South Korea. The new location south of Seoul enables Carl Zeiss SMS to provide optimized customer service with faster delivery of spare parts and on-site activities. "We are significant ... more
02-03-2012 AkzoNobel is planning to invest €80 million in the construction of a new pulp Chemical Island facility in Brazil. The plant, operated by the company's Pulp and Paper Chemicals business, Eka Chemicals, will supply the Suzano Maranhão pulp mill. This is AkzoNobel's second largest investment i ... more
02-03-2012 Yara acquired 16% of Burrup Holdings Limited (BHL) for USD 143 million, increasing its ownership share in the company to 51%. Concurrently, Apache Energy has acquired the remaining 49% of the shares in BHL, and signed a new shareholders' agreement with Yara."We are pleased to secure majorit ... more
02-03-2012 Using computer simulations, a RUB researcher has shown that the oxygen molecule (O2) is stable up to pressures of 1.9 terapascal, which is about nineteen million times higher than atmosphere pressure. Above that, it polymerizes, i.e. builds larger molecules or structures. “This is very surp ... more
02-02-2012 WITec has just received the Photonics Prism Award 2011 for the development of TrueSurfaceTM Microscopy. This internationally respected product innovation award recognizes cutting-edge products that break conventional ideas and improve life through photonics and is presented each year by SPI ... more
02-01-2012 Hamilton Storage Technologies announced that it has broken ground on a new 52,000-square-foot facility in Franklin, Mass., more than quadrupling its space. The facility will serve as the East Coast hub for Hamilton Company.According to Matt Hamilton, vice president, the new facility will ho ... more
02-01-2012 It's official: The world's fastest movie was shot by DESY's X-ray laser FLASH in Hamburg. In its 2012 edition, the famous Guinness Book of World Records lists an interval of a mere 50 femtoseconds between two frames for FLASH. A femtosecond is a quadrillionth of a second, meaning that the t ... more
01-27-2012 A group of scientists headed by Nina Rohringer from the Hamburg Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) realized the first X-ray laser based on atoms at the Californian research centre SLAC. Using neon atoms, they generated ultra-short X-ray bursts of unique colour purity. In many cas ... more
01-26-2012 The world's most accurate metronome keeps stroke to an incredible 10 quintillionth of a second. The device enables slow-motion pictures from the world of molecules and atoms, scientists from the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) in Hamburg, Germany, and the Massachusetts Institu ... more
02-03-2012 Arkema has finalized the acquisition of Chinese companies Hipro Polymers, a producer of specialty biosourced polyamides 10.10, and Casda Biomaterials, a producer of sebacic acid processed from castor oil.«This acquisition represents a large development potential for Arkema. It offers signif ... more
02-03-2012 Carl Zeiss Semiconductor Metrology Systems (SMS) Division has opened an office in the Bundang province of South Korea. The new location south of Seoul enables Carl Zeiss SMS to provide optimized customer service with faster delivery of spare parts and on-site activities. "We are significant ... more
02-03-2012 AkzoNobel is planning to invest €80 million in the construction of a new pulp Chemical Island facility in Brazil. The plant, operated by the company's Pulp and Paper Chemicals business, Eka Chemicals, will supply the Suzano Maranhão pulp mill. This is AkzoNobel's second largest investment i ... more
02-03-2012 Yara acquired 16% of Burrup Holdings Limited (BHL) for USD 143 million, increasing its ownership share in the company to 51%. Concurrently, Apache Energy has acquired the remaining 49% of the shares in BHL, and signed a new shareholders' agreement with Yara."We are pleased to secure majorit ... more
02-03-2012 Using computer simulations, a RUB researcher has shown that the oxygen molecule (O2) is stable up to pressures of 1.9 terapascal, which is about nineteen million times higher than atmosphere pressure. Above that, it polymerizes, i.e. builds larger molecules or structures. “This is very surp ... more
01-20-2012 With effect from January 1, 2012, Coperion GmbH, Stuttgart, has acquired a majority stake in PELL-TEC Pelletizing Technology GmbH, Niedernberg, Germany. Established over ten years ago, PELL-TEC supplies pelletizing systems to customers operating in the plastics processing and recycling indu ... more
01-06-2012 Arkema announces an 80 €/MT price increase across its Evatane® range (High Content Ethylene Vinyl Acetate Copolymers) effective February 1st 2012. This price increase has become necessary as the cost of raw materials is again rising in January 2012 whereas EVA market prices seriously det ... more
01-04-2012 Huntsman Corporation announced that it has acquired EMA Kimya Sistemleri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., an MDI-based polyurethanes systems house in Istanbul, Turkey. As a result of the deal, EMA will become part of Huntsman’s Polyurethanes division and will be known as Huntsman-EMA. EMAs’ two majo ... more
12-22-2011 A Rubber Excellence Partnership was announced by representatives of LANXESS, the German Institute of Rubber Technology DIK (Deutsches Institut für Kautschuktechnologie e.V.) of Hanover, Germany, and Qingdao University of Science and Technology, China, at the LANXESS Green Rubber Day in Beij ... more
12-09-2011 The market research institute Ceresana Research expects the global bioplastics market to reach revenues of more than US$2.8 billion in 2018 – corresponding to average annual growth rates of 17.8%. High expectations will be placed on the bioplastic industry in future. Bioplastics are suppose ... more
02-01-2012 Hamilton Storage Technologies announced that it has broken ground on a new 52,000-square-foot facility in Franklin, Mass., more than quadrupling its space. The facility will serve as the East Coast hub for Hamilton Company.According to Matt Hamilton, vice president, the new facility will ho ... more
01-12-2012 Konrad Kreuzer is leaving WALDNER Laboreinrichtungen GmbH & Co. KG. Konrad Kreuzer had been managing the company since 2003 as its sales manager. Managers Jürgen Liebsch and Peter Wanner will now manage WALDNER Laboreinrichtungen GmbH & Co. KG together with Helmut Hirner, CEO. The duties an ... more
01-10-2012 RETSCH, the leading manufacturer of laboratory instruments for the preparation and characterization of solids in the context of quality control, has built new headquarters on a 25,000 m2 estate in Haan-Gruiten. Several million Euros have been invested in an office building with application ... more
12-20-2011 Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that Gooi Soon Chai has been appointed senior vice president, order fulfillment and supply chain, effective immediately. In this position, Gooi now leads a new, centralized organization created to help Agilent leverage its strength in manufacturing, procu ... more
11-15-2011 Starna Scientific, has appointed Nathan Hulme as a Director to help guide the company’s expansion plans. Hulme’s main responsibilities will include assisting in setting out an overall business strategy for the company that will address communications with customers and dealers as well as i ... more
01-20-2012 The international expert organisation DEKRA is acquiring all shares of the testing company INCOS GmbH Ingenieurbüro in Ingolstadt. In doing so, DEKRA significantly expands its portfolio in Germany for non-destructive testing (NDT) of materials. INCOS has locations in Ingolstadt and Nurember ... more
12-19-2011 Bilfinger Berger Industrial Services Group (BIS Group) is acquiring Are Oy Industrial Services (Are IS), a specialist in electronic instrumentation and control technology (E/I&C) in Finland. The company has around 230 employees and generates annual revenues of some EUR 25 million. The selle ... more
09-08-2011 ITT Corporation announced that it has completed its acquisition of YSI Incorporated, forming a water-focused analytics business with annual revenue of approximately $300 million. YSI is a leading developer and manufacturer of sensors, instruments, software, and data collection platforms for ... more
02-09-2011 Sartorius successfully closed the year 2010. Sales revenue and earnings substantially surpassed the year-earlier figures. Financial guidance for the Group, which was raised during the course of 2010, was met and even exceeded for some targets. For the current fiscal year as well, manage ... more
01-26-2011 Bilfinger Berger has acquired British industrial service provider ATG, expanding its capacity in measurement, control and automation engineering in the United Kingdom. ATG generates an annual volume of €25 million and employs 250 people. The company had previously been owned by its mana ... more
02-02-2012 At its meeting on 26 January 2012, the Supervisory Board of DEKRA SE appointed Dipl. Wirtsch.-Ing. Ivo Rauh (52) as a new member of the Management Board of DEKRA SE. Rauh will assume responsibility for the business unit Industrial effective 1 April 2012, taking over from Mark Thomä (43), wh ... more
01-31-2012 Rockwell Automation, Inc. reported fiscal 2012 first quarter sales of $1,473.9 million, up 8 percent from $1,365.8 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2011. Acquisitions contributed 1 percentage point to the increase and currency translation reduced sales by 1 percentage point. Net incom ... more
01-25-2012 DEKRA is reorganising how it works with its major customers globally. Erik Wakolbinger (44) will lead Group-wide key account management (KAM) and coordinate DEKRA’s sales activities across the Automotive, Industrial and Personnel business units. DEKRA is thus setting a course for stronger o ... more
01-13-2012 The engineering group GEA confirmed at an investor conference in New York that order intake had proved stronger in Q4 than in any other quarter in 2011. “2011 was a very good year for GEA. Order intake continued strong until the end of the year, after already in November we had reported sev ... more
01-13-2012 ABB has won an order worth around $25 million from Statoil to supply AC subsea power cables to the world’s largest offshore gas platform, Troll A, about 70 kilometers off the west coast of Norway. The order was booked in the fourth quarter of 2011. ABB’s scope of supply includes 69 kilomete ... more
Hamilton Storage Technologies Breaks Ground on New Headquarters Facility
Guinness World Record: X-ray laser FLASH shoots fastest movie
How seawater could corrode nuclear fuel
Physicists develop an innovative light source
Borealis Student Innovation Award 2011: recognising high quality olefins and ...
The chemistry of exploding stars
Low Temperatures Enhance Ozone Degradation above the Arctic
The Perfect Liquid – Now Even More Perfect
AkzoNobel selects Tebodin for the conversion of the chlorine plant in Frankfurt
Magnetic actuation enables nanoscale thermal analysis
Slippery when stacked: NIST theorists quantify the friction of graphene
Fewer animal experiments thanks to nanosensors
Nanocrystals Make Dentures Shine
Cloud research at extreme altitudes
Relay race with single atoms: New ways of manipulating matter
On the edge of friction
British pupil claims his gold in Chemistry Olympiad
Changes in the Board of Executive Directors of BASF
BioBoost – Boost of biomass-based energy
Carnegie Mellon researchers use NMR to determine whether gold nanoparticles ...
02-03-2012 Arkema has finalized the acquisition of Chinese companies Hipro Polymers, a producer of specialty biosourced polyamides 10.10, and Casda Biomaterials, a producer of sebacic acid processed from castor oil.«This acquisition represents a large development potential for Arkema. It offers signif ... more
02-03-2012 Carl Zeiss Semiconductor Metrology Systems (SMS) Division has opened an office in the Bundang province of South Korea. The new location south of Seoul enables Carl Zeiss SMS to provide optimized customer service with faster delivery of spare parts and on-site activities. "We are significant ... more
02-03-2012 Yara acquired 16% of Burrup Holdings Limited (BHL) for USD 143 million, increasing its ownership share in the company to 51%. Concurrently, Apache Energy has acquired the remaining 49% of the shares in BHL, and signed a new shareholders' agreement with Yara."We are pleased to secure majorit ... more
01-17-2012 Tikkurila has concluded the co-operation negotiations started in November 2011. The negotiations targeted all personnel groups and functions of Tikkurila Oyj in Finland. As a result of the negotiations, a total of 62 persons, working in various functions of the company, will be dismissed. O ... more
12-09-2011 No crisis mood for chemistry: the VCI expects further chemical industry growthin 2012 – at much lower speed. Record sales, production above pre-crisis level, higher research spending and more jobs: 2011 was a good year in many respects for the chemical industry in Germany. However, much slo ... more
11-18-2011 BASF has been honored with the German Diversity Award as “Germany’s Most Diverse Employer” in the category large-scale enterprise. The prize is awarded by Henkel, the business consultancy McKinsey and the German business magazine Wirtschaftswoche. It honors employers, individuals and innova ... more
02-02-2012 Wacker, the Munich-based chemicals group, is deepening its ties with Siliconas Silam S.A., a silicones compounder in Spain. The two companies recently signed an agreement to that effect. Under its terms, Siliconas Silam may sell ready-to-use products made from Wacker silicone rubber base un ... more
02-01-2012 Novozymes announced an exploratory research agreement with Sea6 Energy, an India-based company, to jointly develop a process for the production of biofuels from seaweed. The research alliance will use enzymes to convert seaweed-based carbohydrates to sugar, which can then be fermented to pr ... more
01-27-2012 Rhodia, member of the Solvay Group, and Avantium announced that they have entered into a partnership to jointly develop a range of new bio-based polyamides targeting a variety of applications. This partnership expands and completes the previously announced development agreement in the field ... more
01-31-2012 Rockwell Automation, Inc. reported fiscal 2012 first quarter sales of $1,473.9 million, up 8 percent from $1,365.8 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2011. Acquisitions contributed 1 percentage point to the increase and currency translation reduced sales by 1 percentage point. Net incom ... more
01-30-2012 In fiscal 2011, Wacker Chemie AG continued to increase its sales compared to the prior year. According to preliminary calculations, the Munich-based chemical company achieved total sales of €4.91 billion in 2011 (2010: €4.75 billion), up over 3 percent year over year. This slight sales rise ... more
01-27-2012 Full Year 2011 earnings, before significant items, were up 20 percent to a record $3.93 per share versus $3.28 per share in 2010. Reported earnings per share were $3.68 versus $3.28 in 2010. Sales of $38.0 billion were up 20 percent, with a 27 percent increase in developing markets. Excludi ... more
12-21-2011 ECHA has added twenty substances to the Candidate List which now contains seventy-three substances. Among these recent additions, twelve have been included in the Candidate List following the unanimous agreement of the Member State Committee while the other eight, which did not receive comm ... more
12-19-2011 The Member State Committee (MSC) unanimously agreed on the identification of twelve Substances of Very High Concern (SVHCs). These will be added to the Candidate List and may then become subject to authorisation. The Committee also indicated their agreement on ECHA's draft recommendation fo ... more
12-16-2011 Since the spring of 2011 Bisphenol A (BPA) is banned in baby bottles throughout the EU, and lately the presence of this chemical in food tin cans has been increasingly questioned. However, there is also the risk of BPA leaching into drinking water from water pipes being restored with a meth ... more
02-03-2012 AkzoNobel is planning to invest €80 million in the construction of a new pulp Chemical Island facility in Brazil. The plant, operated by the company's Pulp and Paper Chemicals business, Eka Chemicals, will supply the Suzano Maranhão pulp mill. This is AkzoNobel's second largest investment i ... more
02-02-2012 LANXESS is continuing to expand its Indian production site in Jhagadia, Gujarat state. The specialty chemicals group is underlining its commitment to the subcontinent by inaugurating three new plants this month to serve the growing India market. LANXESS has invested over EUR 70 million and ... more
01-27-2012 Emerald Kalama Chemical, a division of Emerald Performance Materials, announced that it has started the construction of a new operation to produce K-FLEX® non-phthalate plasticizers and coalescents at its facility in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The new operation is scheduled to be commissio ... more
01-24-2012 The overall nitrobenzene market standing, its trends and development are largely impacted by the demand for aniline and aniline derivatives, the largest end-use fields of nitrobenzene. Moreover large-scale influence is added by the benzene availability as the source material for nitrobenzen ... more
01-20-2012 Despite the negative impact of the 2008 economic recession, the global flow sensors and transmitters market is expected to grow. The rising number of projects, the establishment of new process plants, the financial recovery of numerous end-user industries, as well as reinvestment in plant r ... more
01-19-2012 The global cyclohexane industry growth is highly dependent on the total growth of various end-use markets in the developing countries like China, India and Saudi Arabia. The Chinese market is set to retain its high-scale increase of nylon fibres demand thus driving the total demand for cycl ... more
02-02-2012 Enerkem announced that Carl Rush, Senior Vice President of Organic Growth for Waste Management, Inc., joined its board of directors. Mr. Rush joined Waste Management in 2001. As Senior Vice President of Organic Growth, he is responsible for finding growth opportunities that are synergistic ... more
02-02-2012 At its meeting on 26 January 2012, the Supervisory Board of DEKRA SE appointed Dipl. Wirtsch.-Ing. Ivo Rauh (52) as a new member of the Management Board of DEKRA SE. Rauh will assume responsibility for the business unit Industrial effective 1 April 2012, taking over from Mark Thomä (43), wh ... more
01-27-2012 The Nomination Board of Tikkurila proposes to the Annual General Meeting, which is planned to be held on March 28, 2012, that all present members of the Board of Directors Jari Paasikivi, Petteri Walldén, Eeva Ahdekivi, Pia Rudengren and Riitta Mynttinen would be re-elected and that Aleksey ... more
12-07-2011 Dr Robert Parker welcomed the announcement by the prime minister of a £180m biomedical catalyst fund, but was concerned no specific plans have been introduced to capitalise on the UK’s strength in medicinal chemistry.“For this welcome investment to have maximum economic impact, further urge ... more
10-04-2011 By unanimous consent, the U.S. Senate adopted a resolution designating 2011 as the International Year of Chemistry (IYC). Senate Resolution 283 “recognizes the achievements made in the field of chemistry and the contributions of those achievements to the well-being of humankind…and provides ... more
09-28-2011 The EHEC outbreak event in 2011 which affected numerous citizens of European Member States has shown that a Europe-wide network of all food safety authorities for the protection of consumers is absolutely imperative. BfR’s EU Food Safety Almanac provides a concise depiction of the governmen ... more
02-02-2012 With immediate effect, or as existing contracts permit, BASF is increasing its European sales prices for ethanolamines (EOA) as follows: Monoethanolamine (MEOA) + 60 Euro/ mt Diethanolamine (DEOA) + 60 Euro/ mt Triethanolamine (TEOA) + 60 Euro/ mt or by the equiv ... more
02-01-2012 Oxea will increase list and off-list prices on the following products effective February 15, 2012, or as contracts allow for USA, Canada and Mexico: Product February 15, 2012 Increase (US$/lb) List Price (Zone 1) (US$/lb) i/n Butanol $0.05 $1.58 i/n Butyl Acetate $0.05 $1.36 n Bu ... more
01-23-2012 Eastman Chemical Company is increasing prices on the following products Feb. 2, or as contracts allow. Eastma™ Ethyl Acetate, Urethane Grade : Off-list price increase of $USD 0.02/lb ($USD 0.04/kg) globally. more
02-02-2012 WITec has just received the Photonics Prism Award 2011 for the development of TrueSurfaceTM Microscopy. This internationally respected product innovation award recognizes cutting-edge products that break conventional ideas and improve life through photonics and is presented each year by SPI ... more
01-03-2012 Picosun Oy reports successful final results of the European Union 7th Framework Programme funded research project ROD-SOL. The goal of this multinational, inter-European, three years (2009-2011) project combining the efforts of both scientific and industrial partners has been to dramaticall ... more
11-16-2011 In October, Borealis celebrated an important anniversary with the 50th anniversary of polypropylene (PP) production at its Schwechat location. The company’s first PP production plant became operational in Schwechat in 1961 and received the designation PP1. At that time, the plant was part o ... more
02-03-2012 Using computer simulations, a RUB researcher has shown that the oxygen molecule (O2) is stable up to pressures of 1.9 terapascal, which is about nineteen million times higher than atmosphere pressure. Above that, it polymerizes, i.e. builds larger molecules or structures. “This is very surp ... more
02-01-2012 It's official: The world's fastest movie was shot by DESY's X-ray laser FLASH in Hamburg. In its 2012 edition, the famous Guinness Book of World Records lists an interval of a mere 50 femtoseconds between two frames for FLASH. A femtosecond is a quadrillionth of a second, meaning that the t ... more
01-31-2012 Japan used seawater to cool nuclear fuel at the stricken Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant after the tsunami in March 2011 -- and that was probably the best action to take at the time, says Professor Alexandra Navrotsky of the University of California, Davis. But Navrotsky and others have sin ... more
01-05-2012 Tailor-made specialist micro-organisms directly “feed” on CO2-containing flue gases from lignitefired power stations and even grow at temperatures of 60 degrees centigrade. This is the very promising initial result of a research project run in co-operation by RWE Power and BRAIN AG. The ele ... more
12-06-2011 Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced a new application demonstrating the separation of common inorganic anions and cations in municipal drinking water samples on the capillary Thermo Scientific Dionex IonPac AS19 hydroxide-selective anion-exchange column and the Thermo Scientific Dionex ... more
11-16-2011 Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced a new comprehensive method that uses triple quadrupole GC-MS/MS to achieve lower levels of detection of volatile nitrosamines (VNA) in tobacco. The new method allows environmental laboratories, tobacco companies and government agencies to efficiently ... more
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