OQ Chemicals Launches New Pilot Plant for Customized Esters

Investment in Research and Development

08-May-2023 - Global chemical company OQChemicals has successfully started up its new pilot plant for esters in Oberhausen, Germany. This state-of-the-art test facility enables the company to manufacture small quantities of esters that are tailored to customer needs for test purposes. The new products can ...

A greener alternative for aviation fuel

PSI and Swiss start-up company launch pilot plant for synthetic kerosene

20-Feb-2023 - The Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the Swiss start-up Metafuels are developing a new process for producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). They are now collaborating on the construction and operation of the first pilot plant on the PSI campus to validate the technology and prepare it for ...

traceless materials nominated for the German Founders Award 2022 in the StartUp category

Grain residues instead of plastic: Lufthansa and Otto are among the first traceless industrial customers

09-Sep-2022 - Lufthansa and Otto are among the first industrial customers to put the granules produced at the traceless pilot plant in Buchholz in der Nordheide (near Hamburg) through their paces. This will then be processed into Lufthansa catering packaging, for example. The protective covers will be tested ...

Producing petroleum substitutes from waste products

New pilot plant

15-Mar-2022 - The use of renewable raw materials is more urgent than ever. With its new pilot plant, the Technical University of Dresden is researching how innovative recyclable materials can be sustainably produced from residual products from the agriculture, and forestry industry or grasses. The TU Dresden ...

BASF and Lutianhua plan to pilot a new production process that significantly reduces CO2 emissions

19-Jun-2019 - BASF and Sichuan Lutianhua Co., Ltd. (Lutianhua) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to co-develop a pilot production plant, that will significantly reduce carbon emissions and increase energy efficiency in producing dimethyl ether (DME) from syngas compared to the traditional process. DME ...

SONGWON to meet key industry needs with its new pilot plant

15-Jun-2017 - SONGWON Industrial Co., Ltd. announced that its new pilot plant in Panoli (Gujarat), India has come onstream, thereby strengthening the organization’s overall specialty chemicals development capability. Built on SONGWON’s Indian site with all the necessary main unit operations, the new plant is ...

New sustainability in the tanning process

Resource-efficient manufacturing of leather chemicals

20-Mar-2017 - Specialty chemicals company LANXESS is leading a research and development project to investigate an innovative technology for a new recycling concept in leather manufacturing. Under the title “Resource-efficient manufacturing of leather chemicals” (ReeL), LANXESS Leather business unit is working ...

New WACKER Pilot Reactor for Dispersions Begins Operations in China

11-Nov-2016 - Wacker Chemie AG officially started up its new pilot reactor for vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions at its Nanjing site (Jiangsu province) in China. The new facility will allow WACKER to expand its local research and development activities in China and grow to its regional ...

Spherical tokamaks could provide path to limitless fusion energy

29-Aug-2016 - Creating "a star in a jar" - replicating on Earth the way the sun and stars create energy through fusion - requires a "jar" that can contain superhot plasma and is low-cost enough to be built around the world. Such a device would provide humankind with near limitless energy, ending dependence on ...

Pilot plant for manufacture of high-temperature superconductors goes on stream

13-May-2016 - Deutsche Nanoschicht GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF New Business GmbH, has opened its new pilot plant for the manufacture of high temperature superconductors. The facility located in Rheinbach is based on an in-house developed chemical manufacturing process and has a fifty times higher ...