The discovery of new catalysts, or the means of improving existing ones, is the cornerstone of the highly competitive chemical and pharmaceutical industry. Yet ...

Sasol North America, a Houston-based producer of commodity and specialty chemicals, will expand its Lake Charles, La., manufacturing complex by constructing what it claims will be the world's first ...

Encouraged by low-cost feedstocks from shale gas, Sasol, the South African fuels and chemicals giant, has given the final go-ahead for an ethylene cracker and derivatives complex in Lake Charles, La., ...

Sometimes chemistry won't cooperate with the needs of industry. If a company produces chlorine, for example, to meet strong demand, it also has to move coproduct caustic soda. The linear -olefins (LAO ...