Chemical engineers have discovered that adding nickel atoms to silver catalysts could revolutionize the production of ethylene oxide by eliminating the need for toxic chlorine while maintaining ...

A lack of competitiveness and supportive legislation has combined with soft demand to push firms to sell or close plants ...

We envision three major process technologies growing within a clean chemicals industry: 1) electricity-derived heat to power ...

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

In October 2020, Arkema successfully started a its new 90,000-ton acrylic acid reactor at its Clear Lake site in Texas to attract consumers from paints, super-absorbents, water treatment, and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.