Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) can be prepared from solely bio-renewable sources

New Route to Sustainable Plastic

Largest H2O2 Plant in the World
Solvay and Dow joint venture MTP HPJV Ltd. commissions the largest hydrogen peroxide plant in the world in Thailand

First Plants of BASF-YPC Expansion Onstream
First production facilities in the $1.4-billion expansion of BASF-YPC in Nanjing, China, begun operation

Angewandte Author Profiles October
Michael Krische, Hans-Joachim Freund, Jun Okuda, and Eric Kool are interviewed this month

Metrohm & FOSS Strategic Alliance
Metrohm to become the sole global distributor of FOSS NIR (near infrared)

Austrian Chemistry Days
Internationally renowned speakers, outstanding young Austrian award winner, society cooperations in Linz, Austria

Russkie Biotechnologii – Evonik RusBiotech Int. Joint Venture
Evonik establishes joint venture in Russia to produce feed amino acid L-lysine

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Dan Shechtman, Israel Institute of Technology, for the discovery of quasicrystals

Nobel Prizes 2011
The 2011 Nobel Prizes will be awarded this week - Nobel Prize in Chemistry announced

Who's Next? Nobel Prize in Chemistry – Final Voting Results Wednesday 5 October
The Nobel Prize will be announced shortly: ChemistryViews.org readers think that these scientists will win