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Dow Corning wins safety award at IChemE North America Awards
23-10-2012
Leading chemical engineers have been recognised by IChemE at the Institution’s first North America Awards reception in Vancouver, Canada. Dow Corning clinched the IChemE North America Safety Award (sponsored by Chevron) and Nishit Doshi, a chemical engineer lifted the IChemE Young Chemical ...
USDA scientists use commercial enzyme to improve grain ethanol production
14-09-2011
A commercial enzyme could reduce overall costs linked with producing ethanol from grain, and also reduce associated emissions of greenhouse gases, according to a study by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and colleagues.The researchers found that the enzyme helps extract water ...
H.B. Fuller Announces Leadership Change
Board Names Jim Owens as new CEO
24-11-2010
H.B. Fuller Company, announced that the board of directors has appointed Jim Owens to succeed Michele Volpi as president and chief executive officer and director, effective immediately. Volpi will step down from the board of directors. Owens, H.B. Fuller's senior vice president, Americas, ...
The effects of hydrogen on growing carbon nanotubes
13-10-2010
Carbon nanotubes -- long, hollow cylinders of carbon billionths of a meter in diameter -- have many potential uses in nanotechnology, optics, electronics, and many other fields. The exact properties of nanotubes depend on their structure, and scientists as yet have little control over that ...
Buckley Named General Manager of Dow Performance Materials and Elected President and CEO of ANGUS Chemical Company
06-10-2010
John Buckley has been named global general manager of Performance Materials, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) and has been elected president and CEO of ANGUS Chemical Company (ANGUS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow. Buckley has worked for the company for 25 years, joining ...
'Nanosprings' offer improved performance in biomedicine, electronics
20-09-2010
Researchers at Oregon State University have reported the successful loading of biological molecules onto "nanosprings" – a type of nanostructure that has gained significant interest in recent years for its ability to maximize surface area in microreactors. The findings, announced in the ...
Air Products Board Elects New Director
20-09-2010
Chadwick C. (Chad) Deaton, chairman and chief executive officer of Baker Hughes Incorporated, was elected to Air Products’ board of directors. Air Products Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer John E. McGlade stated that Deaton “will add significant value to the company through ...
MIT researchers create new self-assembling photovoltaic technology that repairs itself
08-09-2010
Plants are good at doing what scientists and engineers have been struggling to do for decades: converting sunlight into stored energy, and doing so reliably day after day, year after year. Now some MIT scientists have succeeded in mimicking a key aspect of that process. One of the problems ...
Oil-eating bacteria may determine environmental impact of Gulf oil
13-08-2010
The environmental impact of millions of gallons of oil still in the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon incident may depend on microscopic helpers: Bacteria that consume oil and other hydrocarbons and could break down the spilled crude, making it disappear. That's the topic of an ...
Praxair Board Elects Bernardes
28-07-2010
Praxair, Inc. announced that Oscar de Paula Bernardes, former chief executive officer of Bunge International, Ltda., has been elected to the Praxair Board of Directors, effective July 26, 2010. Bernardes was chief executive officer of Bunge International from 1997 to 1999. Since 2003, ...
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