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SensoTech opens subsidiary in the U.S.
The SensoTech GmbH (Magdeburg–Barleben, Germany; www.sensotech.com) extends its market presence in North America with a new U.S. subsidiary and thereby reinforces significantly its globally networked team of sales and service staff. As a subsidiary of the German SensoTech GmbH, SensoTech…
Fluor construction-management project underway for new biotech facility in Georgia
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) says it is currently performing early construction management services for Baxter International Inc.’s (Deerfield, Ill.; www.baxter.com) new biotechnology facility near Covington, Georgia, about 45 miles southeast of Atlanta. Mass excavation and earth works are underway…
KBR to provide Purifier technology package for ammonia/urea plant in Indonesia
KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) says it was selected by PT Pupuk Sriwidjaja Palembang, to provide licensing, engineering services and proprietary equipment for a new 2,000 metric tons (m.t.) per day ammonia and 2,750-m.t./d urea plant located in Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia.…
Air Liquide invests €65 million in the Port of Rotterdam
Rotterdam is the second largest chemical and petrochemical basin in Europe. This industry has maintained its momentum, despite the crisis, across Western Europe, with dynamic players demonstrating sustained demand for industrial gases. In this context, AirLiquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) will…
Wacker opens new dispersions plant in South Korea
Today, Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) officially launched its new production plant for vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions at its Ulsan site in South Korea. The additional 40,000 metric tons (m.t.) from the second reactor line increases the site’s…
Shell captures CO2 with MAN integrally-geared centrifugal compressor
MAN Diesel & Turbo (MDT; Berlin, Germany; www.mandieselturbo.com) is providing the compressor technology for Shell Canada’s Quest Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project, located in Alberta, Canada. Quest will be the world’s first commercial-scale CCS project to tackle carbon emissions…
Forest BtL selects Axens’ Gasel F-T Technology Suite
Forest BtL Oy (Vantaa, Finland; www.forestbtl.com) and Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) have signed a license for the use of Gasel technology suite in the Biomass to Liquid (BtL) plant to be constructed in Ajos, near the city of Kemi, Finland.…
Italian industry-academic collaboration on breakthrough innovation
An official ceremony took place today with Giovanni Azzone, rector of Politecnico di Milano (www.polimi.it), and Fabrizio Di Amato, CEO and chairman of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (www.mairetecnimont.com) for the signature of a framework agreement for a scientific collaboration between Maire…
Teijin Chemicals to establish JV with SK Chemicals
Teijin Chemicals Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.teijin.co.jp), the core company of the Teijin Group’s resin and plastic processing business, announced an agreement with SK Chemicals, a South Korean chemical producer, on a business collaboration, including the establishment of a joint venture…
Praxair to acquire NuCO2 for $1.1 billion
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has entered into an agreement to acquire NuCO2 INC. from Aurora Capital Group, a Los Angeles, California based private equity firm, for $1.1 billion in cash. The transaction is subject to customary conditions to closing,…