25-07-2012

IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN), Axens and Dynamotive announced completion of agreements for the development, industrialization and commercialization of a proprietary innovative process to produce transportation fuels from pyrolysis oil. The process, initially developed by Dr Radlein and ...

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13-07-2012

Arkema has announced a project for the sale of its tin stabilizer business to PMC Group. With this proposed divestment of organometallic products, including Thermolite® tin stabilizers, Fascat® catalysts, and fine chemicals, Arkema continues to refocus its activities on fast growing core ...

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05-07-2012

Arkema finalized its project for the divestment of its Vinyl Products activities to the Klesch group announced in November 2011, and so continues to refocus its business on specialty chemicals.The activities concerned by the project have been grouped within a new company called KEM ONE. ...

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03-07-2012

OMNOVA Solutions SAS, with regional headquarters in Villejust (France) and its plant in Le Havre (France), announced that it has been re-certified ISO 9001:2008 by LRQA for its quality management systems related to the development, manufacture and marketing of polymers and antioxidants. This ...

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29-06-2012

Arkema announces a major project for the development of its Kynar® PVDF business in Europe. Over €70M are to be invested into the Pierre-Bénite site in France, in particular to increase Kynar® PVDF production capacity by 50%, and so support customers in high-growth applications. This capital ...

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Kiel Physicists discover anomalous deposition of copper

26-06-2012

A surprising discovery in the growth behavior of copper – an important ingredient in modern electronic devices – was made by a research group from Kiel University, Germany, in collaboration with staff from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France. The team headed ...

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EUR 30 million investment in Port Jérôme site by 2015

01-06-2012

LANXESS is investing in its production site for high-performance rubber in Port Jérôme, France. The Group plans to invest some EUR 30 million by 2015 to further enhance productivity and energy efficiency. LANXESS produces the high-performance rubbers neodymium-polybutadiene (Nd-PBR) and ...

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Highly electrophilic cationic complexes as catalysts in the immortal ring-opening polymerization of lactide

21-05-2012

Certain complexes of large alkaline earth elements such as calcium, strontium, and barium are efficient catalysts for various organic reactions. However, the stability of these heteroleptic complexes in solution is compromised by ligand scrambling. The β-diketiminato ligand has proven ...

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Gamma-rays for in-depth probes

16-05-2012

They can be bent after all: In defiance of a decades-old assumption, gamma-rays can be focused with lenses. The discovery opens up a range of potential applications – from monitoring of nuclear waste to new cancer therapies. Gamma-rays are extremely powerful electromagnetic waves that are far ...

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25-04-2012

Arkema and CEA are to extend their existing collaboration in photovoltaics to the field of micro-electronics and organic electronics by setting up two joint research laboratories. These public-private mixed laboratories will enable the development of new ultra high performance materials and ...

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