HP Innovations: HPInnovations
Oxidative route 'cleans up' dieselA novel, low-emission technology uses an oxidative chemistry to desulfurize crude oil or refined products. The process-UniPure ASR-2-has been developed by UniPure Cor..
HPInformer: International
Atofina Chemicals, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has announced the consolidation of the company's specialty chemicals and plastics additives businesses to form the additives group. The new unit is..
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Catalytica Energy Systems, Mountain View, California, is selling substantially all of the assets used by Catalytica NovoTec a non-energy-related subsidiary. The new company, NovoDynamics, Inc., will o..
New Developments: New Developments in products, services and software
Probe insertion and retraction tool RETRACT-O-MATIC uses existing energy in a pressure vessel or flowline for operation. This existing energy is mechanically manipulated to provide the power necessar..
HP Construction: HPIn Construction
ABB wins Jilin ethylbenzene plant expansion ABB, Bloomfield, New Jersey, has been awarded an ethylbenzene (EB) expansion by Jilin Chemical Industrial Co., China. The original EB plant is located in Ji..
HP In Brief: HPIn Brief
FTC finds no evidence of anticompetitive conduct with last summer's gasoline price spike in the U.S. Midwest. A nine-month investigation by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) into the causes of locali..
HP Impact: HPImpact: CMAI performs petrochemical industry SWOT analysis
The petrochemical and plastics industry is "reeling from the sting of hyper energy markets and slowing economies coming at a time of stepped up capacity addition," according to CMAI analysts. Market p..