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Prnewswire | September 29, 2020

Today, Transform Materials does just that – transforming the petrochemical industry by converting this abundant resource into two important chemical building-blocks. Rather than use crude oil to make the building blocks for essential products like plastics and pharmaceuticals, Transform Materials' energy-efficient process instead uses the methane in natural gas, converting it into high-value hydrogen and acetylene using microwave plasma technology. Transform's patented conversion p...

Chemical Industry Digest | February 15, 2020

BASF has recently launched its pilot platform recichain in the province of British Columbia (BC), Canada, as a response to one of the most pressing environmental challenges – plastic waste. The pilot project will introduce a more sustainable alternative to the linear economic model, reducing plastic waste, maximising its value and enhancing resource efficiency. “There is a clear global challenge around the economics of recycling plastic. Much of the collection and sorting activities ...

Chemical Management

Business Wire | September 28, 2023

908 Devices Inc. a pioneer of purpose-built handheld and desktop devices for chemical and biochemical analysis, announces that it has entered the initial production phase of the Aerosol and Vapor Chemical Agent Detector (AVCAD) program. The company and its partner on the project, Smiths Detection, will initially produce 122 systems in this next phase. The systems, which have been in deve...

Chemicalwatch | May 11, 2020

Deadlines are looming for the risk evaluations and collection of fees associated with 30 high-priority chemicals, reporting obligations related to the chemical data reporting (CDR) rule – and the continued protection of certain confidential business information (CBI). Most of these deadlines are set out in TSCA itself, giving the US EPA little room to manoeuvre despite the disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. That leaves a pile of work ahead for the agency and a crush of deadlines ...