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McDermott | October 18, 2021

McDermott has signed a Letter of Guarantee to deliver engineering and procurement for the ethylene cracker of the Gas Chemical Complex (GCC) project—the largest polyethylene integration project in the world—with China National Chemical Engineering and Construction Corporation Seven, Ltd (CC7). This agreement follows McDermott's safe and successful delivery of the front end engineering design (FEED) and early works phases of the project. The ethane cracker project i...

Ehsdaily advisor | August 12, 2020

On August 3, 2020, the EPA announced it is awarding $3,980,782 to 5 academic research teams for the development of New Approach Methods (NAMs) for evaluating chemical toxicokinetics. Toxicokinetics is defined as the study of “how a substance gets into the body and what happens to it in the body,” according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine. This website describes four process involved in toxicokinetics: These awards will be used to develop tools that help industry and EPA eval...

Xinhua | February 13, 2020

BASF is planning to construct a new production site for battery materials in the German state Brandenburg, the German chemical giant announced on Wednesday. The new factory will produce cathode active materials (CAM) with an initial capacity enabling the supply for about 400,000 fully electric vehicles per year, according to BASF. The production site in Brandenburg would use precursors from the BASF plant in Harjavalta, Finland. Startup of the two plants was planned for 2022, the German chemical...

Energy Live News | March 30, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DoE) has announced up to $25 million (£20.5m) in funding as part of the Plastics Innovation Challenge. The Advanced Manufacturing Office and the Bioenergy Technologies Office jointly released the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) that aims to support recyclable plastic research and development (R&D) and study how to break existing plastics into chemical building blocks that can be used to make higher-value products. Under-Secretary of Energy, Mark W. M...