All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Industrial

President Bush’s decision to stop by CO2 emissions by 2025 and USDOE’s intent to commercially demonstrate Carbon [CO2] Capture and Sequestration [CCS] by 2015-2016] time tables show that the USA can keep relying on Coal while avoiding Global Warming Predictions [80% CO2 reductions by 2050].

The commercial food equipment industry has been consolidating for some time. Enodis and ITW Food Equipment (Hobart) have been the biggest players. They are the only two companies that have full products lines for both the Food Service (restaurants, cafeterias, schools etc.) and Food Retail (grocery...

Food equipment manufacturing is a growing market that several years ago was very fragmented. It is getting to be more consolidated now. Initially, a UK group Enodis was very carefully and successfully acuiring various European, UK, US and Asian based food equipment manufacturers. Now it is being purchased...

Wide Area File Services (WAFS) products have now been shipping for about two years.The main benefit to be derived from WAFS is the ability to improve data delivery to workers at remote sites, while saving money compared to alternative configurations and solutions.

In March 2008, Evonik acquired the remaining 49 percent of its former joint venture Degussa Lynchem Co. Ltd., a patented fluoride- based specialty chemicals and pharmaceutical intermediates producer in Dalian, Liaoning province and Degussa Lynchem has since become a wholly owned subsidiary of Evonik....

·Worldwide methanol consumption, 40.34 million m.t. in 2007, is projected to grow ~11% to 44.7 million m.t. by the end of 2008 (according to studies released by PCI- Octerbloom & Co : Methanol and derivatives Global Outlook 2000-2012 and “Methanol Executive ·Overview and Handbook”) The...

·UCLA researchers have engineered (genetically) e.coli to produce high-octane biofuels ·This represents the first viable process to produce isobutanol (and other branched-chain higher alcohols from sugar.

·Elevance Renewable Sciences has been formed by collaboration between Cargill and Materia (a catalyst technology company) to produce bio-based specialty chemicals. ·The company expects to generate over $1 billion/year by 2016 and will “aggressively grow” in the $500 billion specialty chemicals...

·Coskata (a renewable resource technology company) has developed a proprietary process that uses renewable resources (such as household garbage, plant waste, and used tires) to produce ethanol. ·Commercially available ethanol, from the new process, should be available by 2011.

Investigating novel ways to make ethanol from waste materials is an important facet for renewable fuels in the U.S. Infrastructure, However don't confuse technology innovation with engineering and economic practiclity. They are building a 40,000 gallon/year pilot plant. Not clear whether the process...