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Stateimpact | September 21, 2020

At a marina in Moundsville, West Virginia, Dan Williamson looked out across the Ohio River at a quiet stretch of land on the other side. “There’s a little activity going on,” said Williamson, a spokesman for PTT — an oil and gas company based in Thailand that wants to build an ethane cracker on the far side of the river, in Dilles Bottom, Ohio. “But really we’re kind of in between phases right now.” The plant would turn the region’s plentiful natur...

Safety+Health Magazine | February 13, 2020

Attorneys general of 14 states and the District of Columbia are suing the Environmental Protection Agency and its administrator, Andrew Wheeler, in the latest round of litigation challenging the agency’s recent changes to the Obama-era Chemical Disaster Rule. Filed Jan. 29 in the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the lawsuit asks the court to vacate EPA’s Risk Management Program Reconsideration final rule, which went into effect Dec. 19, on the grou...

Mlive | June 09, 2020

The coronavirus outbreak has pushed many businesses to innovate or retool with new areas of focus, and Howell’s Nyatex Adhesive and Chemical Co. is among them. The chemical company has a primary focus on automotive plastics and adhesives, but began producing hand and surface sanitizer once company President Jason Hulbert realized he had the means to do so. Hulbert said the company is always adjusting what it produces based on industry demands, and built-in access to the suppliers and chemi...

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KBR, Inc. | March 25, 2022

KBR and ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing LLC have collaborated on propane dehydrogenation technology. The collaboration is to bring significant advancements to the technology. Under the collaboration, the new propriety catalyst technology of ExxonMobil will be combined with KBR's proprietary K-PRO℠ Propane Dehydrogenation (PDH) technology to convert propane into propylene. The integrated technology solution will offer financial savings according to the current economic status worldwide. In...