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  • Norfluor S.V. Under Investigation

    Norfluor S.V. Stepped Out Of Its Comfort Zone Located near what was once considered the outskirts of Cd. Juárez, one of the world’s largest chemical plants has had its home for 20 years and has no intention of relocating, although residents and environmentalists wish otherwise. Norfluor, S.V. one of seven major manufactures of hydrofluoric acid, […]

  • Border Town Mystery: Why are so many Brownsville babies being born brainless?

    Brownsville, Texas – On a hairpin bend of the Rio Grande, where the south wind from Mexico carries the sweet smell of freshly cut sorghum and the stench of chemicals, something terrible befell Janet Ramirez. The child she had prayed for, her first, was born dead with a tangled mass of nerve endings instead of […]

  • HFO-1234yf: New Refrigerant Takes Heat

    TO RALLY public opinion against fluorine-based refrigerants, a German environmental group has recorded a car crash and staged a series of tests purporting to prove that a newly developed automotive refrigerant is both flammable and lethal. Much to the consternation of the refrigerant’s makers – Honeywell Speciality Materials, DuPont, and Arkema – the crash and […]

  • DuPont & Honeywell to jointly manufacture new refrigerant: HFO-1234yf (CF3CF=CH2)

    Low-Global-Warming-Potential Alternative Meets New European Environmental Regulations MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J., and WILMINGTON, Del., May 20, 2010 – Honeywell (NYSE: HON) and DuPont (NYSE: DD) today announced a manufacturing joint venture to produce a new refrigerant for use in automotive air conditioning systems. The new refrigerant has 99.7 percent lower global warming potential (GWP) than the […]

  • Global Fluorochemicals Market to Exceed 2.6 Million Tons by 2015

    Global Industry Analysts, Inc. announces the release of a comprehensive global report on Fluorochemicals markets. The global market for Fluorochemicals is forecast to exceed 2.6 million tons by the year 2015. Growing use of cooling equipment and refrigerators is likely to impact market growth. In addition, growing demand for fluorochemicals in developing world is expected […]

  • Navin producing fluorochemicals in India

    Navin Fluorine International Ltd makes fluoro-chemicals, a highly corrosive, poisonous and gaseous halogen element used in a wide variety of industrially important compounds. Navin Fluorine has one of the largest integrated fluoro-chemicals complexes in Surat (Gujarat) since 1967. Its other manufacturing facility is located in Dewas (Madhya Pradesh). The company focuses on three product groups—refrigeration […]

  • 2010-2015 In-depth Research Report on China Sodium Fluoride Industry

    Report price : $ 2,800 Publication date : January 2011 Publisher : Beijing HuaJing Ltd Report Summary Based on the information and data from the State Statistical Bureau, General Administration of Custom, Ministry of Commerce , Development Research Center of Sate Council, Fluoride Industry Statistic Bureau, National Business Information Center, China Fluoride Industry Association, National […]

  • Brazilian city battles pollution

    Cubatao, Brazil – Quality of air, water improves in ‘valley of death’ Thanks to perhaps the biggest anti-pollution program ever mounted in Brazil, this industrial city nestled in the Serra do Mar mountains is on the way to losing its reputation as ”the valley of death.” With the Sao Paulo State environmental agency, Cetesb, mandating […]

  • World Nitrogen Trifluoride Market to Reach 19.5 Thousand Metric Tons by 2012

    Asia-Pacific dominates the world nitrogen trifluoride market, with a 67.5% share estimated in the year 2008 due to the concentration of semiconductor industry, the major end-use market for NF3. The region is also expected to post the highest growth with a projected CAGR in nearly 20% over the period of 2011 through 2015. Consumption of […]

  • IBM is the first to eliminate PFOS and PFOA from semiconductor manufacturing

    IBM has announced it has eliminated all known uses of two compounds from its chip manufacturing processes as part of its design for the environment program. These compounds are perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). IBM’s design for the environment program is focused on the development and manufacture of products and technologies that are […]