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ExxonMobil | December 08, 2021

ExxonMobil Chemical Company has acquired California-based Materia, Inc., a technology company that has pioneered the development of a Nobel prize-winning technology for manufacturing a new class of materials. The innovative materials can be used in a number of applications, including wind turbine blades, electric vehicle parts, sustainable construction, and anticorrosive coatings. ExxonMobil and Materia have been collaborating since 2017 on the development of new hydrocarbon-based...

National Observer | February 02, 2020

U.S. chemical producer Dow Inc. has approved an expansion of its Alberta petrochemical facilities expected to cost between US$200 million and US$225 million. While releasing its fourth-quarter results this week, CEO Jim Fitterling announced the Michigan-based company will increase capacity at its Fort Saskatchewan ethylene plant just north of Edmonton by about 130,000 tonnes per year by adding a process furnace. He says Dow will equally share costs of the expansion and the ethylene output with a...

Chemicalwatch | April 28, 2020

Meetings of the UN's conventions on chemicals and waste will be held online in June as a consequence of the international travel restrictions and confinement measures in place to contain the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic, according to the convention secretariat's executive secretary Rolph Payet. The bureau meeting for the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants (POPs), set to be held on 10 June in Geneva, should see a relatively smooth transition online, Dr Payet told Chemi...

Businesswire | June 04, 2020

-Chemical Insights, an Institute of Underwriters Laboratories, is presenting a virtual program titled, “Emissions, Exposure and Health Impact on 3D Printing Processes” as part of American Industrial Hygiene Association’s (AIHA) upcoming American Industrial Hygiene Conference & Exposition. The four-hour course takes place on Monday, June 8, from 2 to 6 p.m. ET and will provide attendees the skills, tools and references they need to evaluate exposures from 3D printers. Dr. Ma...