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Chemical Management

Yokogawa Electric Corporation | March 23, 2022

Yokogawa Electric Corporation and JSR Corporation will jointly test AI to run a chemical plant autonomously for 35 days. This would be the world’s first test for AI in a chemical plant. With the help of this test, they will reinforce AI learning in an actual plant and would demonstrate the controlling ability beyond the existing one in the plant. The initiative has been described for the 2020 Projects for the Promotion of Advanced Industrial Safety subsidy program of the Japanese Ministry ...

Chemical Management

Univation Technologies, LLC | March 02, 2022

Axens and Univation Technologies have entered into a cooperation agreement with the purpose of developing improved capital and operating efficiencies for the production of on-purpose linear alpha olefins (LAO) – including both 1-butene and 1-hexene – for use in manufacturing polyethylene resins with the UNIPOL™ PE Process. The alliance is expected to identify and deliver quantifiable synergies to benefit polyethylene producers globally for new UNIPOL™ PE Projects as well ...

Chemical Management

LanzaTech Inc. | May 27, 2022

A consortium, including LanzaTech and Danone, led to the discovery of a new route to monoethylene glycol, which is a key building block for polyethylene terephthalate, resin, fibers and bottles. The technology converts carbon emissions from steel mills or gasified waste biomass directly into MEG. The carbon capture technology uses a proprietary engineered bacterium to convert carbon emissions directly into MEG through fermentation, bypassing the need for an ethanol intermediate, and simpli...

ICIS | February 06, 2020

China’s planned rollback of tariffs on certain imports from the US starting on 14 February will impact a number of key polymers and chemicals. China will roll back the 5-10% tariffs imposed on $75bn of US imports in the 4th round of tariffs in the US-China trade war by half to 2.5-5%. Those “part one” tariffs in the 4th round were implemented on 1 September 2019, before the phase one US-China trade deal signed on 15 January. Part two of the 4th round of tariffs never went into ...