BASF planns to establish a world-scale production of water treatment and paper chemicals in Nanjing, China

Water Treatment & Papermaking Industry in China

Engel New VCI President
Dr. Klaus Engel, Evonik Industries AG, elected President of the German Chemical Industry Association (VCI)

Literary Prize: D. Fischer-Henningsen
The 2010 literary prize is awarded to Doris Fischer-Henningsen, Editor-in-Chief of Chemie in Unserer Zeit

Independent Deepwater Estimate
New estimates of the amount of oil released from Deepwater Horizon are published in the first peer-reviewed study

New Material Research Center
Merck inaugurates new Material Research Center, the largest single R&D investment in the chemicals business sector to date

Waste: Feedstock For Renewable Diesel
Neste Oil develops technology for turning waste into feedstock for renewable diesel

Pallada-Bacteria
Biosorption of palladium from water turns industrial waste directly into C–C bond forming catalysts

Awarded: R. Schlögl and J. Lehmann
DECHEMA Plaque awarded to Robert Schlögl, Fritz-Haber-Institut, Berlin, and Jürgen Lehmann, University of Bielefeld

Transformers For CERN
ABB will supply high-efficiency transformers to CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

New Air Products Director
Air Products board elects Chadwick C. (Chad) Deaton new director