It is faster, cleaner and more effective than conventional cleaning. I tested 1Tap Cleaner, an Android phone cleaner app. Late last year, Air Liquide announced it is teaming up with Toyota Motor to build a chain of hydrogen filling stations in the northeastern U.S. It also won its biggest hydrogen contract ever, in Saudi Arabia. India. It already has secured a contract with Mitsui O.S.K. Mitsui is trying to do its part to improve the competitiveness of the Japanese chemical sector through consolidation. After the formation of a polyurethanes joint venture this year with South Korea’s SKC, Mitsui will close a toluene diisocyanate plant in Japan. He has continued Solvay’s restructuring, recently sending its chloro-vinyl assets to a joint venture with Ineos and buying the oil-field chemicals firm Chemlogics. Jean-Pierre Clamadieu, who had led a turnaround at Rhodia, was tapped as Solvay’s new CEO. New CEO Wolfgang Büchele, who came to Linde last year after heading Kemira, endorses this strategy. But given that Braskem is set to open a multi-billion-dollar petrochemical complex in Mexico, the company may still turn 2015 into a positive year. Allegations that Braskem may have improperly benefited from naphtha contracts with Petrobras back in 2009 may rope the petrochemical maker into the scandal.

This year, the renewal of an all-important naphtha contract with Petrobras went down to the wire. Additionally, Petrobras may be forced to sell its Braskem stake. Perhaps as a consolation, CF is acquiring Yara’s 50% stake in GrowHow, a U.K. And with AkzoNobel, Evonik is building a potassium hydroxide and chlorine plant in Germany. Over the past year, Evonik has pursued as aggressive a capital expansion strategy as a specialty chemical maker can. That’s why in 2012 the German industrial gases maker bought Lincare and Air Products & Chemicals’ European home care business, both of which supply oxygen and other medical gases to patients. Late last year it launched a silica-based replacement for plastic microbeads in personal care products and invested in Wiivv Wearables, a Canadian company that plans to use three-dimensional printing to produce biomechanically optimized shoe insoles. The firm plans to invest $1 billion in the U.S. Yara also will tap cheap U.S. Formerly the fertilizer arm of Norsk Hydro, Yara was spun off in 2004 and has ridden the wave of the international fertilizer boom ever since.

42 gallons or 158.99 L) in 2004. And, after Hurricane Katrina, some prices were almost double that. Meanwhile, a weakening yen and lower oil prices lifted its earnings in 2014. A big focus for Sumitomo has been on its agricultural chemicals and electronic materials businesses. Like other Japanese chemical firms, Sumitomo has participated in consolidation in its home country, earmarking an ethylene cracker and a caprolactam plant for closure. U.S. ethylene cracker. Instead, the company has decided to import 1.5 million metric tons of U.S. The company talked merger with U.S. In cooperation with Goodyear, the company is rolling out high-performance silica for tires. The firm is planning a more-than-$100 million precipitated silica plant in the southeastern U.S. Reliance then bought into U.S. Reliance has long wanted to crack the U.S. The term horsepower was invented by the engineer James Watt in order to market his new steam engines. This has really triggered the flow of frozen sea food services in Delhi, with more and more player coming in this market segment makes it more competitive. “Our medical gases and services for respiratory therapy not only meet this growing demand, but also-even more importantly-support these patients by significantly improving their quality of life,” Büchele says in the company’s annual report.

The South Korean chemical firm has been aggressively growing in materials for electronics. The past year has been one of big accomplishments for the French industrial gases firm. The 2007 Silverado Classic and its GMC Sierra Classic sibling are based on a design introduced for 1999 and are sold alongside redesigned versions that debuted this year. These are the two most common skin irritants in moisturizers, so stop using a product if you notice any adverse reactions. But men’s bodies — including the skin — are much different than women’s, and a lotion that works for your wife or girlfriend might not be the best fit for you. Electronic systems are managed through an electronic control module. Relatively simple rate laws exist for zero order reactions (for which reaction rates are independent of concentration), first order reactions, and second order reactions, and can be derived for others. In the first enzymatic reaction, methanol is broken down into formaldehyde. It will plunk down more than $100 million on specialty silicones in Germany and China. The company recently plunked down $200 million to buy the reverse-osmosis-membrane developer Nanoh3O. Earlier this year, LG unveiled a $100 million investment in liquid-crystal display polarizers in China.