1,9 million EU grant for Mikhail Eremets from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry

29-Nov-2010 - Dr. Mikhail Eremets from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry has been awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council end of October. The sum of € 1.9 million was granted for exploring conductive and metallic hydrogen. In his project, Eremets plans to study molecular hydrogen ...

EFCE launches 2011 student award

26-Nov-2010 - The European Federation of Chemical Engineering announced the launch of its 2011 student mobility award. The biennial award, which will be presented at the 8th European Congress of Chemical Engineering (ECCE) in Berlin, Germany next year, promotes and rewards international mobility amongst ...

Ashland to increase global prices of Natrosol hydroxyethylcellulose

22-Nov-2010 - Ashland Aqualon Functional Ingredients, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc., is increasing the price of its Natrosol™ hydroxyethylcellulose products by 12 - 20 percent effective Dec. 1. The price increase is necessary to offset the recent cost increases of key raw materials used to manufacture ...

KSB Group: Growth in order intake with sales revenue stable

05-Nov-2010 - Despite continuing economic risks, the global economy showed a clear upward trend in the third quarter of 2010. Companies outside Europe in particular started making investments on a larger scale again which they had put off during the economic crisis. The mechanical engineering sector in Europe, ...

Dürr achieves positive after-tax result in the third quarter

Strong recovery in machinery business

04-Nov-2010 - The third quarter was by far the strongest part of the year so far for the Dürr Group. At € 336.6 million, sales revenues were up 17% on the second quarter of 2010 and up 39% on the third quarter of 2009. Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) rose more than proportionally to € 13.2 million in ...

Pfeiffer Vacuum: Q3 the best quarter in the company’s history

Pfeiffer Vacuum announces results for the first nine months of 2010

04-Nov-2010 - Pfeiffer Vacuum closed the month of September with the best quarter ever in its corporate history. This also produced above-average developments for the first nine months. All metrics posted significant, double-digit growth rates. Pfeiffer Vacuum Chief Executive Officer Manfred Bender had this ...

Opening the door to unexplored carbene chemistry

26-Oct-2010 - Scientists in Germany have shed new light on the addition of small molecules to the ubiquitous N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs), previously thought to be impossible for NHCs. Ulrich Siemeling and colleagues have shown that stable NHCs can show strongly enhanced reactivities towards fundamentally ...

Arkema: Price increase on organic peroxides

26-Oct-2010 - Arkema will implement, on November 1st, 2010, or as contracts allow, a price increase on perester, diacyl and dialkyl organic peroxides in Europe, Middle East and Africa. These increases are necessary to offset raw material cost. The price increase ranges from 0,5 €/kg to 1.2 €/kg depending on ...

Eastman Increases OXO Alcohols Prices on October 1

15-Sep-2010 - Eastman Chemical Company is increasing prices on the following products effective Oct. 1. These increases are due to elevated operating costs, particularly in raw materials Eastman™ 2 - Ethylhexanoic Acid : Off-list price increase of $US 0.03/lb ($US 0.066/kg) in North America and Latin ...

KSB Group: Growth in orders outside Europe

19-Aug-2010 - KSB reported renewed demand for standard pumps and valves in the first half of 2010. As anticipated, a reduction in large orders was recorded in the project business with its high proportion of customised products. Total order intake reached € 1,003.0 million by the end of June, while sales ...