Grundfos is partner in a development project, which, in time, can lead to recycling of the scarce and essential resource, phosphorus. Lack of phosphorus might turn out to be one of the largest challenges of the future. As a nutrient, it ...
Tags: Manufacturing, Processing Machinery, Waste Water Processing Machinery
OCI N.V. announced that Natgasoline LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary, plans to build a new greenfield world scale methanol plant in Beaumont, Texas. The plant is expected to have a capacity of up to 5,000 metric tons per day (tpd), ...
Tags: Methanol Plant, Textile
What are the 50 greatest inventions since the wheel? If you ballpark the wheel's innovation at 6,000 B.C., then what are the most significant discoveries that follow? A reasonable list should be agriculture-heavy, and in its "50 Greatest ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Dutch fertilizer company OCI N.V. announced Thursday it planned to build the largest methanol plant in the United States, which is believed to have a methanol shortage of about 5 million tonnes. The projected plant will be built in ...
Tags: Fertilizer, Methanol Plant
In what he describes as "the mother of all conspiracy theories," an Arizona-based talk radio host says the powers that be are intentionally destroying large bodies of water in a bid to create a multi-trillion-dollar biofuel industry. ...
Tags: algae, conspiracy, ocean, oil
New information has surfaced in the West, Texas, explosion case that could alter the course of the ongoing investigation into what caused the disaster. As it turns out, West Fertilizer Co., which used to be known as Texas Grain Storage ...
Tags: Texas, fertilizer, plant, lawsuit, Monsanto
It is one of the latest forms of "greenwashing" that has many thinking they are "recycling" solid waste, but the practice of dumping biosolids (which is really just concentrated human waste) on farm fields is a serious environmental ...
Tags: local, farms, waste, fertilizer
A couple of researchers from the University of Alberta (U-A) in Canada say they have come up with a novel new way to eventually end the practice of having to apply environmentally-harmful fertilizer chemicals to commercial crops. ...
Tags: overuse, agricultural, chemical, fertilizer
Countless millions of pounds of leftover food go to waste every single year around the world, and a UK group has decided to put that waste to good use. Utilizing a roughly $1.2 million grant given to it from a waste minimization ...
Waste-water treatment by-products, also known as sewage sludge, are frequently used as fertilizer. And that means whatever this stew of sewage leftovers contains, including substances hazardous to human and animal health, could potentially ...
Tags: antibiotic, resistant, bacteria, fertilizer, super bug
Goji Berries Inc. announced today that it now carries seaweed fertilizer, a valuable addition to an organic garden. Seaweed fertilizer imparts new life to the soil stripped of the natural minerals by commercial farming. If you wish to ...
Tags: Goji, US, seaweed fertilizer
PetroChina, China's largest energy producer, will suspend natural gas supplies to Cangzhou Dahua Group Co Ltd, a fertilizer manufacturer in Hebei province, because of a winter shortage, the fertilizer company said. China faces a natural ...
Tags: Gas Shortage, Production Cut
Burcon NutraScience Corporation, a leader in functional, renewable plant proteins, reported results for the fiscal second quarter ended September 30, 2013. "During the quarter, we made continued strong progress toward commercializing ...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation (MCO), a group company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), will establish MHI Compressor Manufacturing, LLC in Pearland, Texas (part of greater metropolitan Houston), by the end of ...
Tags: MCO, petrochemical, plant, MHI
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. announces that several contracts and order implementations have been awarded through its subsidiaries Tecnimont S.p.A., KT - Kinetics Technology S.p.A. and Stamicarbon BV, for a total amount of approximately €118 ...
Tags: oil, gas, petrochemical, fertilizer