Two years of data recorded around Marcellus Shale development near a school in Pennsylvania show the operations “do not pose any acute or chronic health concerns” and have not impacted air quality in the surrounding area, according to a comprehensive study released this week. The analysis by researchers at Boston-based Gradient Corp. refutes baseless claims
Read More...May 17, 2019 Updated 5/17/2019 Email Print Frank Esposito From left: Tom Drye of Techmer, Jean Sirois of RTP and Frank Roederer of Gaylord Chemical Cleveland — A panel of industry veterans looked into the future of technical compounding at Compounding World 2019. Tom Drye, Jean Sirois and Frank Roederer each answered questions from moderator
Read More...May 17, 2019 Updated 5/17/2019 Email Print Audrey LaForest Robert Eller, left, with Paul DiLaura and Rose Ryntz. Novi, Mich. — Self-driving vehicles will bring new performance and design requirements to the automotive sector, and that means more opportunities for advanced materials and manufacturing technologies. Speakers at the 2019 WardsAuto Interiors Conference, held May 9,
Read More...May 17, 2019 Updated 5/17/2019 Email Print Jeremy Carroll Peter Pan, vice general manger of Chumpower Machinery Corp., watches an employee work on blow molding machine at the company’s facility in Taichung, Taiwan. Taichung, Taiwan — Some single-use plastics, like PET water bottles, serve a good purpose, said Peter Pan, vice general manager for Chumpower
Read More...May 17, 2019 Updated 5/17/2019 Email Print Bill Bregar John Kozma, left, and Janos Kozma of Modern Dispersions Inc., a compounder and color masterbatch maker in Leominster, Mass. Cleveland — Compounders will play a key role in recycled plastics in the more circular economy of the future because they can target materials for specific end-use
Read More...May 17, 2019 Updated 5/17/2019 Email Print European Rubber Journal Düsseldorf, Germany — Asahi Kasei Europe is planning to relocate its headquarters within Düsseldorf by the second half of 2020. Located at Düsseldorf Harbor, the new offices will consolidate sales, marketing and research and development activities, Asahi Kasei said in a May 13 statement. The relocation, it
Read More...May 17, 2019 Updated 5/17/2019 Email Print Grupo Antolin Grupo Antolin plans to use its new plant in Bamberg, Spain, as a center for its advanced automotive lighting. Spanish automotive interior specialist Grupo Antolin has opened a new production facility and a technical center in Bamberg, Germany, to boost its integrated automotive lighting operations. Focused
Read More...The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved privately held Freeport LNG’s plan to build and operate a fourth liquefaction train at its Freeport LNG export terminal in Texas. Freeport said it expects the U.S. Department of Energy to authorize Train 4 to sell LNG to non-Free Trade Agreement countries later this quarter. Earlier this
Read More...The following information is provided by PetroDivest Advisors. All inquiries on the following listings should be directed to PetroDivest. Hart Energy is not a brokerage firm and does not endorse or facilitate any transactions. Fairway Resources III LLC retained PetroDivest Advisors for the sale of Midcontinent leasehold across the Western Anadarko Basin in Oklahoma with bids due
Read More...MOSCOW—Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project to Germany may launch in 2020, rather than the end of 2019, due to delays in obtaining permits from Denmark, Interfax news agency on May 17 quoted Nord Stream 2 AG as saying. The Russian-led company has two pending route applications with Danish authorities, the first of which
Read More...May 17, 2019 Updated 5/17/2019 Email Print Huhtamaki CBW’s new system provides a smaller footprint, 50 percent greater production output, quicker changeovers and cost savings vs. the company’s previous high-speed retrieval system. Automation is a given in high-speed packaging. You have to handle mass-produced packaging when it comes out of the mold and organize the
Read More...One of the false allegations made against shale drilling is that it somehow pollutes the air–of particular concern near schools. A new independent two-year study commissioned by Range Resources at one of their drilling sites, located about a mile from a local school, thoroughly debunks that allegation. A first-of-its kind public health and long-term ambient
Read More...Yesterday New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo dropped an economic atom bomb on New York City by rejecting a natural gas pipeline to bring more supplies of clean-burning natgas to NYC and Long Island (see NY Gov. Cuomo Denies Permit for Williams NESE Pipeline to NYC). The reaction has been swift, and negative. NYC’s economic and
Read More...Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, arguably PA’s worst governor in a generation, has just thrown in his lot with uber-leftists Andrew Cuomo (governor of NY), Phil Murphy (governor of NJ), and John Carney (governor of DE) to support a total, permanent ban on fracking *and a ban on any drilling-related activities* in the Delaware River Basin
Read More...Yesterday two northeast Pennsylvania legislators–state Representative Aaron Kaufer (Republican) and state Senator John Yudichak (Democrat)–hosted a rally to promote proposed new bipartisan legislation aimed at luring a “world-class” petrochemical manufacturing plant to the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area. A big plant, on the order of the Shell cracker plant in southwestern PA. But no, not an ethane cracker.
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