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Albemarle Corporation | February 09, 2022

Albemarle Corporation a leader in the global specialty chemicals industry, announced today that it has signed a non-binding letter agreement with Mineral Resources Limited to explore a potential expansion of the MARBL Lithium Joint Venture. "The expansion of MARBL would be consistent with our corporate strategy to pursue profitable growth and to be disciplined stewards of capital. Broadening our partnership with MRL would allow us to expand lithium conve...

C&EN | March 30, 2020

The US chemical industry is endorsing the Environmental Protection Agency’s sweeping new policy to go easy on companies for all but criminal violations because of the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2. But environmentalists and others criticize the new EPA policy as too expansive. They say it endangers the safety of workers, the public, and chemical plants. The EPA’s temporary enforcement policy, unveiled March 26, is broad yet does not treat all violations the same. F...

Phys | August 06, 2020

Real-time measurements captured by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory provide missing insight into chemical separations to recover cobalt, a critical raw material used to make batteries and magnets for modern technologies. Results published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, track the dynamics of molecules designed to grab cobalt from solutions containing a mixture of similar species. "Understanding the molecular events that make it possible to...

Grand Rapids Business Journal | April 10, 2020

A local chemical company is working to produce and sell more than 100,000 gallons of hand sanitizer it is making from denatured ethanol. Grand Rapids-based Haviland Enterprises, working with chemical supplier Rochester Hills-based Plymouth Technology, is taking advantage of a new Food and Drug Administration concession that allows the use of denatured ethanol in hand sanitizer production to make large volumes of it to help during the COVID-19 pandemic. While sheltering in place, Amanda Richie, C...