These products are used in the company’s specialized end products or sold externally. Celanese produces these commodity chemicals in its acetyl chain segment, which generates around half of ...

UBE Corp. (Tokyo)announced that it held a groundbreaking ceremony for a dimethyl carbonate (DMC) and ethyl methyl carbonate (EMC) plant in Louisiana.

By Lisa Song This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom ...

The acid growth theory states that the auxin-induced acidification of plant cell walls causes their expansion. A model now suggests that excessive acidification leads to growth inhibition ...

Russia's largest petrochemicals company, Sibur, plans in the first half of March to resume output at a plant that was ...

“You see this nightmare of another plant, trying to do the very same thing.” Exxon’s proposal calls for a steam cracker, a ...

A study has identified key genetic pathways in corn that help its roots branch out to find water in soil; the varieties adapted to temperate regions like the U.S. corn belt showed large differences in ...

Essentially, the plants use the gaseous ethylene produced by their roots to sense where the air spaces are in the soil, Dinneny said. Then, they regulate the branching of roots downstream of that ...

Now is a good month to plant early potatoes and sow hardier veg like beetroot direct outdoors. Hardy annuals such as cornflowers and poppies can also now be sown direct outside, where they are to ...

NASA has experimented with artificial photosynthesis to investigate how plants grow in microgravity ... it didn’t publicly state how much oxygen and ethylene were produced in its experiments.

NEXTCHEM’s NX Stami Urea™ technology will allow a steam consumption reduction of the urea plant of 15%, providing an energy-efficient solution and increased production capacity by about 26% MAIRE has ...