VTT has developed a fully recyclable coating for food & pharmaceuticals

26-Mar-2010 - VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed an environmentally-friendly packaging coating solution. Especially suitable for food and pharmaceutical packaging, the coating offers a new method for manufacturing fully recyclable, thin, light and air-tight packaging materials. Developed ...

GEA Process Engineering: Spray drying of nano particles allows safe industrial use

01-Mar-2010 - GEA Niro, a technology centre in GEA Process Engineering, has helped to solve the problem of how nanotechnology can be used industrially, taking into account health, safety and environmental protection. A team from the company has developed a method that makes it possible to bind suspended ...

BASF has joined forces with GEA Niro in cGMP spray drying for custom synthesis pharma production

12-Feb-2010 - BASF’s Business Unit Pharma Ingredients & Services has entered into a cooperation with GEA Niro, which will allow BASF to make cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Practice) spray drying tests and pilot productions of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) at GEA Niro’s Pharma Test Station in ...

“Best Innovation Contributor 2009:” Cognis receives supplier award from Henkel Laundry & Home Care

29-Jan-2010 - At this year’s Soap and Detergent Association (SDA) Annual Meeting and Industry Convention in Orlando, Florida, Cognis was awarded with a prize by Henkel Laundry & Home Care. The company received the “Best Innovation Contributor 2009” award for the best contribution of an external partner ...

NIST gets the dirt on soil with 3 new reference materials

28-Aug-2009 - The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued three new certified reference materials for soil. Intended for use as controls in testing laboratories, the new Standard Reference Materials (SRMs)— gathered from the San Joaquin Valley in California and from sites near Butte ...

Oxea Expands Its Global Carboxylic Acids Production and Will Produce Butyric Acid in North America

15-Oct-2008 - In an effort to increase its operational flexibility the global chemical company Oxea has decided to produce Butyric acid at its North American production site in Bay City, Texas. The existing Carboxylic acids production plant will receive significant upgrading in order to produce the same ...

Scientists peel away the mystery behind gold's catalytic prowess

Bilayer clusters of atoms less than a nanometer in dimension are found to be responsible for a vital oxidation reaction

08-Sep-2008 - Few materials have exercised as much of a hold on the human imagination, or on human history, as has gold. But for all of its popular uses – money, medals, jewelry and more – gold's potential as a catalyst lay hidden until the 1980s, when Masatake Haruta and Graham Hutchings independently ...

CECA increases prices of Molecular sieves and implements a "Potassium chloride surcharge"

18-Jul-2008 - CECA, subsidiary of ARKEMA group, has announced a new worldwide price increase for its molecular sieves sold under the brand name Siliporite® and the immediate implementation for 3 Angstroms products of a "Potassium Chloride surcharge". "Despite our drastic efforts to cut costs, CECA takes these ...

Oxea to produce carboxylic acids in China

Joint Venture with Shenyang Zhangming Chemical planned

17-Jun-2008 - Oxea has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Chinese company Shenyang Zhangming Chemical, Zhangyizhan, Shenyang, to form a joint venture. Oxea will produce carboxylic acids in China together with Shenyang Zhangming and market the products worldwide. The production of other carboxylic ...

BASF raises prices of carboxylic acids

03-Mar-2008 - Effective immediately, or as existing contracts permit, BASF is raising its prices for 2-ethylhexanoic acid (2-EHA) and propionic acid in Europe by EUR40 per metric ton. According to the company, BASF is one of the world's leading companies with 2-EHA and produces the substance at its Verbund ...