U.K. Ineos completes acquisition of Seal Sands site from BASF
Following clearance from the European Commission on August 1, 2008, Ineos Nitriles has successfully completed its agreement to purchase the Seal Sands site on Teesside... Newsfront: Chemistry for Construction
Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information At 2,064 ft as of this past April, the unfinished Burj Dubai skyscraper in the United Arab Emirates is the tallest man-made structure on earth... Alstom to build large biomass-processing facility in U.K.
Drax Group plc (www.draxgroup.plc.uk), a power generation business, and Alstom (Paris, France; www.power.alstom.com), a global leader in power generation technology, have today announced the signing of an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC)... Focus on Pumps
Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information A Pump Intended for Non-API Processes The Sunflo P-2500 high-pressure centrifugal pump features distinctions from previous models in the P-2000... Chementator: Improving the Performance of HDS Catalysts
Researchers at Oxford Catalysts Ltd. (Oxford, U.K.; edlinks.che.com/7372-534) have shown that the method of preparation — rather than the identity or combination of metals used — has the greatest influence on the performance of... More Stories » SWEDEN Seals & Gaskets
In this section, products and services for seals and gaskets are highlighted, including: In poorly lubricated conditions, try this diamond seal; A seal for low temperatures and high pressures; A seal for powder processes that require frequent washdown; and more... Alfa Laval wins large order in China
Alfa Laval (Lund, Sweden; www.alfalaval.com) has received an order for the Packinox plate heat exchanger from a petrochemical company in China. The order value is about SEK 60 million, and delivery... Hägglunds Drives acquires Rineer Hydraulics
Hägglunds Drives AB (Mellansel, Sweden; www.hagglunds.com) has signed an agreement to acquire the operations of the U.S. company Rineer Hydraulics Inc. for approx. $23 million. The acquisition will strengthen Hägglunds Drives’ product offering... CyPlus installs cyanide-control system in Sweden
Dragon Mining Sweden AB (Storuman) has purchased the CyPlus CCS Cyanide Control System from CyPlus GmbH — a wholly owned subsidiary of Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) — for its Svartliden operation in Sweden. “Working... MIP Tech./Supelco launch MIP process for shrimp
MIP Technologies AB (Lund, Sweden; www.miptechnologies.com) and Supelco, a division of the Sigma-Aldrich Group (www.sigma-aldrich.com), announced today the launch of a new SupelMIP application for the selective extraction of chloramphenicol (CAP) from shrimp... More Stories » FINLAND Larox to supply filters to Chempolis demo plant
Larox Corp. (Lappeenranta, Finland; www.larox.com) will deliver two gas-tight Pannevis vacuum belt filters to Chempolis Biorefining Park, CBP, 3rd generation biorefining research and demonstration plant... Kemira and Rockwood to form leading TiO2 JV
Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, Finland; www.kemira.com) and Rockwood Holdings Inc. (Princeton, N.J.; www.rocksp.com) have agreed to form a joint venture (JV) that includes both parties’ titanium dioxide businesses and the functional additives business owned by... Foster Wheeler to supply CFB gasifier for BTL pilot plant
Foster Wheeler Ltd. (Hamilton, Bermuda; www.fwc.com) announced today that its Finnish subsidiary Foster Wheeler Energia Oy, part of its Global Power Group, has been awarded a contract by NSE Biofuels Oy Ltd. for a circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) biomass... Outotec to perform HydroCopper process tests
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Combine AG of Germany upon continuous test runs to be performed with Zangezur's concentrate at Outotec's HydroCopper demonstration plant in Pori, Finland. Zangezur... Outotec to deliver Fe-ore pelletizing technology to China
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Shougang Jingtang United Iron & Steel Co. Ltd on the delivery of new environmentally sound technology for Shougang's iron ore pelletizing plant to be built in Caofeidan, China. The contract... More Stories » DENMARK Topsoe technology for large ammonia plant in Algeria
A contract for the supply of Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) process technology and catalysts for two ammonia plants has been signed with the Algeria Oman Fertilizer Co. (El Djazairia El Omania Lil Asmida SPA) — a joint... Chementator: Hot Potatoes
CLC bio (Aarhus, Denmark; edlinks.che.com/7372-550) and partners from Danish research institutions and crop-enhancing firms have started a project to develop... Topsøe technology for large fertilizer plant in Vietnam
Vietnam National Chemical Corp. (Vinachem) has contracted Haldor Topsøe (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) for the supply of... Topsøe to license hydrocracking technology
Slovnaft in Slovakia and OVM/ Petrom in Romania - have signed contracts with Haldor Topsøe for hydrocracking technology... Grundfos Group acquires Peerless Pump Co.
Effective December 1 2007, the Grundfos Group (www.grundfos.com; Denmark) has acquired Peerless Pump Co. Peerless is a U.S.-based manufacturer of pumps and fire protection systems with... More Stories » NETHERLANDS Alstom to build a 1,280 MW CC power plant in Holland
Alstom (Paris, France; www.power.alstom.com) signed with Dutch utility Essent a series of contracts worth up to 1-billion euro for the repowering of Claus B and the construction of Claus C, resulting in a 1,280 MW GT26-based combined-cycle (CC) power plant... Akzo Nobel relocating its chelates HQ to China
AkzoNobel Functional Chemicals (Amersfoort, Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) is relocating the headquarters of its chelates business from the Netherlands to China. The move has been prompted by the growing importance of the Asian market. “It is extremely... Chementator: A New Concept in the Supply of Cl2
Small-scale chemical producers that use chlorine often rely on larger producers, which sell them the excess Cl2 produced by dedicated chlor-alkali plants. However, such Cl2 supplies are being threatened on a number of fronts, at least in Europe, where new... Chementator: Foundation for SIF Demonstrations
This month, the newly released Foundation for Safety Instrumented Functions (SIF) was demonstrated at Shell Global Solutions (Amsterdam, Netherlands) — one of several demonstrations planned by the Fieldbus Foundation (FF; Austin, Tex.... Technip awarded contract for H2 plant in Romania
Technip (Paris, Framce; www.technip.com) has been awarded by Rominserv and Rompetrol Rafinare (both members of The Rompetrol Group), a lumpsum contract, worth approximately 40 million euros, for a hydrogen plant to be constructed at the Petromidia Refinery in... More Stories » BELGIUM Utz Tillmann becomes director general of VCI
Dr. Utz Tillmann is now director general of the German Chemical Industry Assn. (VCI; Frankfurt, Germany; www.vci.de). He is starting in his new role on June 1. Tillmann has an industry background, combined with wide experience in association work in Brussels... Solvay launches new product for air-pollution control
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announces today that its subsidiary Solvay Chemicals, Inc. is expanding its portfolio with a new product named SOLVAir Select 300, which is designed for air-pollution control applications, in particular, the... BASF starts up new nitric-acid plant
BASF S.E. (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has started operating a new plant for the production of nitric acid at its Antwerp Verbund site. Nitric acid is one of the most important inorganic intermediates, and the plant's output will be used mainly to... Solvay to power its Bernburg, Germany plant with secondary solid fuel
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announced today that work has begun to build a refuse-derived fuel (RDF) power plant at its site in Bernburg, Germany, which is scheduled to supply energy for the production of sodium carbonate and hydrogen... Solvay Indupa will produce bioethanol-based vinyl in Brasil
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) derived from sugar cane and salt... More Stories » GERMANY Lanxess will move headquarters from Leverkusen to Cologne
Specialty chemicals company Lanxess AG plans to move its headquarters from Leverkusen to Cologne (both Germany). Relocation is to be completed by 2011. Lanxess will now begin discussions with the city of Cologne to identify possible sites. “Lanxess is... Lurgi signs contract for melamine plant in Russia
Lurgi GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany; www.lurgi.com), and EuroChem (Moscow), have signed two contracts with a total value of 92.7 million euros for the design and supply of a melamine plant. The melamine unit, which will be the first of its kind in Russia, has a... Wacker Schott Solar to expand in Jena
After commissioning a new wafer production facility at the so-called “Jena Site 2” in mid-April, Wacker Schott Solar GmbH (Jena, Germany; www.wackerschott.de) is continuing its production-site expansion. The company announced this today... CAC builds underground storage facility for natural gas
Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz GmbH (CAC; Germany; www.cac-chem.de) draws on its longstanding collaboration with Rohöl-Aufsuchungs AG (RAG; Vienna, Austria) and lands two new contracts for erecting underground storage facilities for natural gas. The one... Lurgi Zimmer wins PA6 contract in China
Lurgi Zimmer GmbH, a company of Lurgi GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany; www.lurgi.de), has been awarded a contract to supply its state-of-the-art polyamide 6 (PA6) technology for Tianjin Haijing Polymerization Co., Ltd., P.R... More Stories » FRANCE Bulgarian refinery to upgrade with Axens’ technology
Lukoil Neftochim Burgas AD, a subsidiary of the Russian oil major Lukoil (Moscow; www.lukoil.com), has selected Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) to design and license technologies to convert Urals blend vacuum residue and gasoil (VGO) at... Veolia wins Sines Plant environmental project
La Seda de Barcelona (LSB; Spain; www.laseda.es) has awarded the project of environmental services for the industrial plant Artenius Sines, a subsidiary of the Spanish multinational located in Portuguese city of Sines, to the French company Veolia... S-Oil selects ParamaX technologies
S-Oil Corp. (Seoul, Korea; www.s-oil.com/eng) has selected Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) ParamaX Technology Suite for the No.2 Aromatics complex at the Onsan refinery in South Korea. The new 1,180,000-m.t./yr plant will add capacities... Saudi Aramco and Total select Axens Technologies
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France www.axens.net) has been awarded a design package for the new, 400,000 bbl/d, world class, full-conversion refinery in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The refining and petrochemical complex is scheduled to start-up in 2012. Among the units... Chementator: A New Way to Make Dispersions
At last month’s CosmoProf exhibition (April 10 – 14; Bologna, Italy), VMI-Rayneri (Montaigu, France; edlinks.che.com/7372-531) introduced a new vacuum-injection process for dispersing powder-like solids into liquids or pastes during the production... More Stories » SPAIN Caloric’s 1st aMDEA-based CO2-recovery plant
Caloric Anlagenbau GmbH (Gräfelfing , Germany; www.caloric.com) has signed its first contract for the supply of a carbon dioxide recovery unit using aMDEA-solvent (activated methyl diethanolamine). The plant was ordered by a German engineering company... IGCC plant celebrates 10 years of operation
Elcogas S.A., a company owned by the Spanish energy group ENDESA, together with other European utilities (EDF, Iberdrola, EDP, ENEL) will celebrate 10 years’ operation of its integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) power plant in March 2008. The... Extracting HMs
The latest issues of the J. of Separation Sci. and the J. of Colloid Interface Sci. report on a new material, nanostructured silica, which can be functionalized to extract heavy metals (HMs), such as mercury, lead, cadmium and... BASF Catalysts expands plant for polypropylene catalysts
Facility in Tarragona, Spain manufactures catalysts used to make polypropylene... Oxycombustion
The Spanish subsidiary of the Global Power Group of Foster Wheeler, Ltd. (Hamilton, Bermuda; edlinks.che.com/6900-545) has signed an... More Stories » ITALY Pieralisi opens offices in U.S. and Tunesia
After opening its new offices last autumn in the United States, the Pieralisi Group (Jesi, Italy; www.pieralisi.com) has added another new piece to its worldwide jigsaw by inaugurating a commercial branch office in Tunisia. The Pieralisi North America... Uhdenora receives order from AO KAUSTIK
Uhdenora S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.uhdenora.com) received a contract from AO KAUSTIK for the new membrane chlor-alkali plant to be erected in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan. The new plant will have a capacity of 91 m.t./d of sodium hydroxide, and is scheduled to... Chementator: Chiral synthesis
Scientists from the Center Biology at University College Dublin (Ireland; edlinks.che.com/7370-576) and the University of Bologna (Italy; edlinks.che.com/7370-577) have developed an enzymatic process that can be applied to the... May New Products (international edition)
Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information  Plastic parts make this diaphragm pump good for pharma In the newly developed special series of diaphragm pump — the encodos hygienic PP (photo)... Calendar - April
Click here for full pdf version of this article - includes all graphs, charts, tables, and author information NORTH AMERICA RFID Journal LIVE Annual Conference and Exhibition. RFID Journal LLC (Melville, N.Y.). Phone: 631-249-4989; Fax: 631-980-4314... More Stories » SWITZERLAND Chementator: Nanozeolites
In cooperation with several universities, Clariant International Ltd. (Muttenz, Switzerland; edlinks.che.com/7371-543) has developed a process to manufacture high-quality nano-sized zeolite L (Linde Type L) in technical quantities. This new range of... E+H Flowtec invests in new calibration facility
No manufacturer can calibrate flowmeters more accurately than Endress+Hauser (E+H) Flowtec AG (Reinach, Switzerland; www.endress.com): the company’s new calibration facility sets standards worldwide, the manufacturer claims. “It puts us in a... Sulzer Chemtech & Kühni collaborate on LLE
As of February 1, the Swiss firms Sulzer Chemtech Ltd. (Winterthur; www.sulzerchemtech.com) and Kühni AG (Allschwil; www.kuhni.ch) will work closely together in the field of extraction. The goal of this co-operation is to develop comprehensive solutions... Lonza inaugurates Shawinigan Facility
Yesterday, Lonza AG (Basel, Switzerland; www.lonza.com) formally launched its newly acquired plant in Shawinigan, Canada. The facility is dedicated to the production of Pro-KTM — a new addition to... Microbial testing
A molecular testing method that attains a viable count of microbial organisms in as little as 4 h compared to the typical 3–14... More Stories » OTHER Ekato Fluid receives its largest order
Ekato Fluid Misch- ind Dispergiertechnik GmbH (Lörrach, Germany; www.fluidmix.de), a company of the Ekato Group (Schopfheim... Siemens to supply first 500-MW coal gasifiers to China
After a production period of only 18 months, Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.powergeneration.siemens.com) is to deliver the first two of five coal gasifiers to Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group Co. Ltd. (SNCG) in China. The coal gasifiers, each... BASF to build plant for sodium methylate in Brazil
BASF S.E. (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is planning to construct a production plant for sodium methylate in Guaratinguet‡, Brazil, its largest site in South America. The plant, which will have a capacity of 60,000 m.t./yr, will be the first... CAC wins order for Russian membrane electrolyzer
Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz GmbH (CAC; Germany; www.cac-chem.de) has been awarded a new contract for the planning and construction of a membrane electrolysis plant by the Russian large-scale enterprise “Soda-Chlorat Ltd.”, Berezniki/Perm region. This... Chementator: Alaskan Gas
BP (London; edlinks.che.com/7372-548) and ConocoPhillips (Houston, Tex.; edlinks.che.com/7372-549) have combined resources to start Denali — the Alaska Gas Pipeline. The pipeline will move approximately 4 billion ft 3 /d of natural gas to... More Stories »
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