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China's Pearl River Delta slows

The Pearl River Delta is the original heart of China's industrialisation process. The blog first visited 20 years ago, as China slowly opened up to the West, and was amazed to discover that cities such as Guangdong were already as large as Hong Kong...

Published 2 Nov 2008 11:10 by Chemicals & The Economy

Filed under: China, Economic growth, Oil markets, Financial Events, recession, chemical demand, Pearl River Delta
Oil producers at a crossroads

The blog has been thinking about last week's leaked report from the International Energy Agency (IEA). This said that the world needs "to invest $360bn each year until 2030 to replace falling oil production and increase supply". The IEA...

Published 2 Nov 2008 12:39 by Chemicals & The Economy

Filed under: China, Economic growth, Oil markets, Futures trading, M & A, oil prices, Leverage, recession, OPEC, Russia
October green chems

I'm having a little difficulty finding newly launched green chemicals from last month. Could it be that some of the laboratories are taking a break? Or maybe companies are a little bit prudent these days in launching new products. We'll just wait...

Published 3 Nov 2008 9:32 by Green Chemicals

Filed under: Products, General, gas, plastic, paint, global warming, algae, recyclable
A fistful of dollars

The US Federal Reserve used just to manage monetary policy for the 12 'districts' of the USA. But now, it is going global. First, it opened unlimited "swap lines" with other G7 countries through the European Central Bank, the Bank of...

Published 3 Nov 2008 12:28 by Chemicals & The Economy

Filed under: UK, Brazil, Economic growth, Currencies, Japan, Financial Events, Bank of England, US Federal Reserve, Singapore, Switzerland, S Korea, ECB
Lewis Hamilton triumph - but Braskem trophy goes to Massa

Did you spot the chemicals connection in Lewis Hamilton's triumph yesterday in the Formula One World Championship? Banners for Braskem , the Brazilian chemicals producer, adorned the Brazilian Grand Prix circuit, and the race sponsor also supplied...

Published 3 Nov 2008 13:16 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: chemicals, trivia, media life, Lewis Hamilton, Brazilian Grand Prix, Braskem, Formula One
Syngenta in high yeild sugar cane development

In a statement issued late last week, Syngenta said it is developing a new technology to dramatically improve the cost efficiency of sugar cane planting in Brazil . Syngenta´s innovation would reduce planting costs per hectare by some 15%, driven by a...

Published 3 Nov 2008 15:18 by The Big Biofuels Blog

Filed under: ethanol, Agriculture, technology, Biotechnology, Brazil, Syngenta, Sugar
Biofuels offer considerable scope for catalysts

The Catalyst Group says that biofuels offer considerable scope for catalysts, which could help improve yields and reduce reaction times. It's not on the Catalyst Group's website yet... so here's what they said in an email... The Catalyst Group...

Published 3 Nov 2008 15:04 by The Big Biofuels Blog

Filed under: biofuels, catalysis, technology, Science, report, catalyst
Giant Lego man washed up on beach

A giant plastic Lego man was washed up on the beach in Brighton, UK on Friday, and is now revealed to be the work of a Dutch artist, Ego Leonard, according to this article on the BBC . The Lego man bears the slogan: "No Real Than You Are," which...

Published 3 Nov 2008 13:30 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: trivia
Greenhouse gas on the rise

A report from NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) said methane emission in the atmosphere is on the rise again across the globe. The rise in Northern Hemispheric emissions may be a result of very warm conditions over Siberia throughout...

Published 3 Nov 2008 12:19 by Green Chemicals

Filed under: Environment, General, studies and reports, Government, methane, greenhouse gas, NF3, NASA, Scripps
Financial crisis and $60 oil: Now what?

A colleague of mine (and several readers of the green blog) expressed a spreading sentiment of uncertainty whether the current financial crisis and the price downfall of crude oil will put a brake in the investment surge towards renewable energy and other...

Published 3 Nov 2008 16:27 by Green Chemicals

Filed under: Company initiatives, Investments, General, studies and reports, Government, investment, renewable energy, clean technology
GM's October sales collapse

October's US auto sales were as bad as expected. But even so, GM still managed a surprise. Once the undisputed market leader, its sales were truly awful, falling 45% versus October last year, as shown in the chart above. A sign of GM's own shock...

Published 3 Nov 2008 20:15 by Chemicals & The Economy

Filed under: Economic growth, Oil markets, Financial Events, recession, Toyota, Chrysler, GM, Ford
Rolls Royce trials Jatropha biofuel in Derby

Rolls Royce is trialling Jatropha biofuel at its test beds in Derb y, in the Midlands of England, the engine maker is working with Air New Zealand which is planning to fly a Boeing from Aukland using the fuel in one engine in December. As someone who...

Published 4 Nov 2008 10:22 by The Big Biofuels Blog

Filed under: New, biofuels, technology, Jatropha, Boeing, Air, Zealand, Rolls-Royce
Jatropha plantations for Florida--Biofuels Digest

A report in Biofuels Digest says that My Dream Fuels is aiming to plant around 900 000 jatropha trees in Florida . The firm says that its trees will mature in 8 months and significantly out perform wild Jatropha strains. My Dream Fuel is already working...

Published 4 Nov 2008 10:00 by The Big Biofuels Blog

Filed under: Agriculture, biofuels, Florida, India, Jatropha, Fuels, Dream, Peuto, My, Rico
African Jatropha plantations.

The author of this article in All Africa.com is pretty much anti anything to do with big oil and biofuels from food crops. But if you can make it half way through page two there's a run down on who's growing Jatropha and where in East Africa....

Published 4 Nov 2008 10:51 by The Big Biofuels Blog

Filed under: biofuels, Jatropha, africa
Cut the travel and shop from home

Business travel and entertainment are the first things to go as chemicals firms like everyone else aim to cut costs. Attendance at recent conferences and industry events like Southwest Chems Golf in October and early indications for NECA in December has...

Published 4 Nov 2008 12:07 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: business travel, Houston, golf, New York, Southwest Chems, NECA Winter Meeting, myus.com, shopping

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China's Pearl River Delta slows

Oil producers at a crossroads

October green chems

A fistful of dollars

Lewis Hamilton triumph - but Braskem trophy goes to Massa

Syngenta in high yeild sugar cane development

Biofuels offer considerable scope for catalysts

Giant Lego man washed up on beach

Greenhouse gas on the rise

Financial crisis and $60 oil: Now what?

GM's October sales collapse

Rolls Royce trials Jatropha biofuel in Derby

Jatropha plantations for Florida--Biofuels Digest

African Jatropha plantations.

Cut the travel and shop from home