OQ Chemicals Declares Force Majeure for Oberhausen Products

Disruption at Raw Material Supplier

05-Mar-2024 - OQChemicals declares Force Majeure for certain products manufactured at the Oberhausen, Germany site due to a significant disruption at a raw material supplier. On February 27, a substantial operational disruption occurred at a raw material supplier's synthesis gas unit located at the ...

OQ Chemicals Declares Force Majeure

Implements Sales Control on Oberhausen-Produced Products

30-Sep-2021 - Due to a technical problem in a third-party synthesis gas unit at the Oberhausen, Germany, site, raw materials to OQChemicals are currently restricted. During a regular inspection, a leakage was detected at the cylinder block in the area of the valves. Unfortunately, the compressor had to be ...

Key advance toward production of important biofuel

MOF can efficiently separate biobutanol from the fermentation broth

29-Apr-2020 - An international research collaboration has taken an important step toward the commercially viable manufacture of biobutanol, an alcohol whose strong potential as a fuel for gasoline-powered engines could pave the path away from fossil fuels. The key breakthrough is the development of a new metal ...

CO2 for a clean performance: Rheticus research project by Evonik and Siemens enters phase 2

High-value specialty chemicals produced from CO2 and water using electricity from renewable sources and bacteria

14-Oct-2019 - Evonik and Siemens launched their joint research project Rheticus II. The goal is to develop an efficient and powerful test plant that will use carbon dioxide and water as well as electricity from renewable sources and bacteria to produce specialty chemicals (CO2). In the Rheticus I project, the ...

Researchers take two steps toward green fuel

Two-Step Saccharification of Rice Straw Using Solid Acid Catalysts

18-Jun-2019 - An international collaboration led by scientists at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) , Japan, has developed a two-step method to more efficiently break down carbohydrates into their single sugar components, a critical process in producing green fuel. The breakdown process is ...

Useful Alcohols: Ceresana Analyzes the World Market for Solvents

25-Apr-2018 - Solvents play a major role in industrial production: They can dissolve, dilute, and, in a very fine distribution, absorb other substances without changing them chemically. Solvents (sometimes also called dissolvents) are mainly used in the paints and varnishes, print inks, and adhesives industry ...

Breaking the chain

Catalyzing a green future for chemistry

08-Nov-2017 - The fight against climate change is a call-to-arms for industry. We currently rely on fossil fuels, a major source of the greenhouse gas CO2 , not only for energy but also to create chemicals for manufacturing. To ween our economies off this dependency, we must find a new source of "green" raw ...

Fuel and chemicals from steel plant exhaust gases

03-Jul-2015 - Carbon monoxide-rich exhaust gases from steel plants are only being reclaimed to a minor extent as power or heat. Fraunhofer researchers have developed a new recycling process for this materially unused carbon resource: They successfully produced fuel and specialty chemicals from these exhaust ...

Oxea Announces Global Price Increases

15-Oct-2014 - Oxea will increase off-list prices on the following products effective November 1, 2014, or as contracts allow: USA, Canada, and Mexico Product November 1, 2014 Increase US$/lb i/n Butanol $0.03 i/n Butyl Acetate $0.03 n Butyraldehyde $0.03 n Propyl ...

Ceresana Analyses the Global Market for Solvents

21-Aug-2014 - No matter if paints or adhesives, pharmaceutical drugs or cosmetics: solvents are immensely important in the manufacturing of many industrial goods. Ceresana publishes the most comprehensive report on the global market for solvents. According to this study, already published in its third edition, ...