Bayer MaterialScience sells know-how and patents to its partner Alanod

10-Jun-2010 - Bayer MaterialScience AG, Alanod Aluminium-Veredlung GmbH & Co. KG, its subsidiary Alanod-Solar and the DTNW (North-West German Textile Research Center) worked together in a consortium for several years to develop a special protective coating for aluminum mirrors used in solar thermal ...

Songwon announces the expansion of its new isobutylene facility

07-Jun-2010 - Songwon Industrial Co. Ltd. announced that its new isobutylene (IBL) production facility located at the Maeam site in South Korea, which just started production in May 2009 with a capacity of 30.000 tons has been successfully expanded to reach a total capacity of 40.000 tons. Jongho Park, ...

Arkema Inc. receives regulatory approval to market its carbon nanotubes in the United States

01-Jun-2010 - Arkema now has received EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) approval for commercial sales of its Graphistrength® multiwall carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in the United States. This approval gives the green light to Arkema Inc., Arkema’s US subsidiary, to assist its existing and prospective customers ...

The search for improved carbon sponges picks up speed

01-Jun-2010 - Jeffrey Long's lab will soon host a round-the-clock, robotically choreographed hunt for carbon-hungry materials. The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory chemist leads a diverse team of scientists whose goal is to quickly discover materials that can efficiently strip carbon dioxide from a power ...

Linde builds industrial-scale air separation plant in Kazakhstan

EUR 95 million investment under umbrella of long-term gas supply contract with JSC ArcelorMittal in Temirtau

06-May-2010 - The technology group The Linde Group is set to construct a air separation plant for ArcelorMittal, at ArcelorMittal's Temirtau site in Kazakhstan. This plant will be Kazakhstan's first industrial-scale development with a daily capacity of 2,000 tonnes (tpd). It is set to go on stream mid-2012. ...

Linde expands gas supply network for ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe in Duisburg, Germany

EUR 75 million investment under umbrella of long-term gas supply contract

05-May-2010 - The technology group The Linde Group is set to expand its gas supply network for steel conglomerate ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe at its largest production location in Duisburg, Germany. Under the terms of the agreement, Linde will construct another industrial-scale air separation plant in ...

Smoothing the way for economic flexible OLEDs

The dream of low-cost, energy-efficient lighting on a big scale becomes tangible thanks to barrier coating systems for flexible OLEDs developed by Fraunhofer researchers

16-Apr-2010 - Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are nowadays synonymous with next generation lighting, which could replace common light-bulbs in a couple of years. They convert electricity very efficiently into light of high quality. However, existing OLEDs on the market are costly and mostly deposited on ...

Bayer MaterialScience to build industrial-scale facility for eco-friendly chlorine production

Contract signed with Uhde

01-Apr-2010 - Bayer MaterialScience has signed a contract with plant engineering company Uhde to build a new plant for chlorine production based on common salt. The plant, which will have an annual capacity of 20,000 metric tons and be built at Chempark Krefeld-Uerdingen in Germany, is scheduled to start ...

A huge step toward mass production of coveted form of carbon

15-Mar-2010 - Scientists have leaped over a major hurdle in efforts to begin commercial production of a form of carbon that could rival silicon in its potential for revolutionizing electronics devices ranging from supercomputers to cell phones. Called graphene, the material consists of a layer of graphite ...

Solvay will build a very large fuel cell at SolVin’s Antwerp plant

More than EUR 5 million invested in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell on hydrogen

12-Feb-2010 - Solvay announced it will invest over EUR 5 million in the construction of a test fuel cell with a total electric power of 1 megawatt (MW) at the SolVin plant in Lillo, Antwerp, Belgium. The investment is part of the Project Hydrogen Region Flanders - South Netherlands. The fuel cell will convert ...