NewAge Industries installs solar panels to supply half of its energy needs
NewAge Industries (Southampton, Pa.; www.newageindustries.com) has completed the installation of a one-megawatt rooftop solar-panel system, which supplies half of the plastic tubing manufacturer's...
View ArticleThe Bio-Based Economy
The realization that our natural resources are not endless, and that we need to focus on sustainability is driving technology and its supporting funds toward new choices. In the chemical process...
View ArticleColBiocel selects Chemtex technology for cellulosic ethanol production in...
Chemtex (Wilmington, N.C.; www.chemtex.com) has entered into a Term Sheet Agreement with Colombiana de Biocombustibles Celulósicos...
View ArticleCodexis and Raizen to improve first-generation ethanol process in Brazil
Codexis, Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.; www.codexis.com) and Raizen Energia S.A. (Sao Paulo, Brazil; www.raizen.com) have signed a joint development agreement to develop an improved first-generation...
View ArticleAchema 2012 takes a forward view
Achema 2012 focused on a set of topics that the chemical process industries will have to address in the future, including increased attention on sustainable processes and systems, as well as the...
View ArticleTechnology from Veolia Water Solutions is selected for potash and salt...
Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies (Saint Maurice, France; http://www.veoliawaterst.com) has been awarded the supply of a large-scale evaporation and crystallization plant by Iberpotash, S.A., a...
View ArticleI drink tap water
I drink tap water! There, I finally said it. I am out of the closet — the water closet. My two sons are now cowering with shame, wondering how they can possibly ever face their Dasani-drinking friends...
View ArticleP-recovery on the move
Unlike fossil fuels or precious metals, phosphorus has no alternatives — we (and all other life forms on the planet) need phosphorus; it’s in our DNA, our bones and our energy-producing chemicals...
View ArticleEvonik Industries and OPX Biotechnologies to jointly develop bio-based chemicals
Evonik Industries AG (Essen; www.evonik.com) and OPX Biotechnologies, Inc. (OPXBio; Boulder, Colo.; www.opxbio.com)...
View ArticleAdvanced Polymer Recycling
Taking advantage of the availability of post-consumer and post-industrial polymer waste, new technologies for recycling are being developed globally. This article examines some of the technologies...
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