A new fuel-cell concept for the catalytic production of hydrogen peroxide

08-Aug-2003 - Hydrogen peroxide is an important industrial reagent, which is used in such processes as the environmentally friendly bleaching of paper and wastewater treatment. Current industrial methods for the bulk production of H2O2 are expensive, both in terms of energy and cost. A new method developed ...

Wacker Celebrates 100th Birthday of Silicone Pioneer Prof. Richard Müller

08-Aug-2003 - A ceremony at WACKER's Nünchritz site in Saxony, Germany, recalled the pioneering achievements of chemist Professor Richard Müller. July 17 marks the 100th birthday of Prof. Müller, who passed away in 1999. Contemporaneously with American researcher Eugene G. Rochow, Müller discovered a synthesis ...

Varian, Inc. Introduces Highest Signal-to-Noise, Dual Wavelength UV-Vis Detector

08-Aug-2003 - Varian, Inc. launched its newest UV-Vis detector for HPLC (high performance liquid chromatography) applications, which operates across an extended wavelength range (190nm to 900nm), and provides the highest signal-to-noise ratio on the market for dual wavelength detection. For preparative HPLC ...

Celanese AG approves Florence, Kentucky as the future North American headquarters of Ticona

07-Aug-2003 - Celanese AG announced that its Board of Management has approved Florence, Kentucky to become the new North American regional headquarters of Ticona, its technical polymers business. This follows the decision to close the Summit, New Jersey site, which was announced earlier this year, and move ...

Clariant Unveils Wide-Reaching Corporate Transformation Program

07-Aug-2003 - Roland Lösser, Clariant's new chief executive, announced today a wide-reaching corporate transformation program that will significantly reduce debt, cut costs, and re-establish the group as one of the leading specialty chemicals companies. The program, which is the result of an extensive ...

BASF and Dow Advance the Development of New Propylene Oxide Production Process

07-Aug-2003 - BASF and The Dow Chemical Company announced today that they have made significant progress in advancing the technology for the manufacture of propylene oxide using hydrogen peroxide as a key raw material (HPPO). The two companies announced their intention to combine research efforts in August ...

Bayer Polymers to discontinue Cobalt-polybutadiene (CoBR) production in Marl

Reason for decision: drastic drop in demand for CoBR

06-Aug-2003 - Bayer Polymers, a division of Bayer AG, is planning to discontinue the production of Cobalt-polybutadiene (CoBR) at its subsidiary Bayer Buna GmbH in Marl in the first half of 2004. The reason for this decision is primarily the accelerating drop in demand for this rubber product. The CoBR ...

Kendro Laboratory Products re-organizes R&D departments to form "Centres of Excellence"

06-Aug-2003 - Kendro Laboratory Products is re-structuring its R&D departments to provide improved, integrated services to its customers and business partners. The newly formed "Centres of Excellence will be formed at the production plants in the USA and in Germany. Parallel to this re-structuring, the ...

Süd-Chemie acquires Alcan technology for organo-clays in fire retardants for the polymer industry

06-Aug-2003 - Alcan Aluminium UK Limited, London/UK and Süd-Chemie AG, Munich/Germany, are pleased to announce that Süd-Chemie has acquired the intellectual property and know-how relating to the use of organoclays with inorganic fire retardants from Alcan. Alcan and Süd-Chemie were previously involved in a ...

Dow Polystyrene Reaches 1,000,000,000 Pound Milestone at Schkopau Site

06-Aug-2003 - Just four years since it began operating at the Schkopau site of Buna Sow Leuna Olefinverbund GmbH (BSL), Dow's largest single-unit polystyrene train has produced 1,000,000,000 pounds of STYRON polystyrene resins, a landmark reached on July 30, 2003. The 130,000-ton capacity polystyrene plant ...