Plant Watch Stamicarbon wins contract for urea plant in China December 6, 2012 — Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard, the Netherlands; www.stamicarbon.com), the Licensing and IP Center of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.it), has been awarded a contract for a new…
Philippault Weser McCarthy Raty Azibert Peter Bigelow joins the board at engineering firm Integrated Project Services (Lafayette Hill, Pa.). Ton Büchner returns to AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) as CEO, after a medical-related absence. Matthieu Philippault joins the international sales team…
Based especially on FRI’s productivity statistics for 2010 and 2011, I was nominated for the ChemInnovations Plant Manager of the Year Award. On November 13, I attended the Awards Banquet, but I lost the award to a very worthy candidate…
The SF1 is a stainless-steel separator-filter that is designed to remove condensate and particulate matter, such as dirt and scale, from steam or inert gas. The SF1 is ideal for situations where dry, dust-free steam or inert gas is required,…
The Atlas line of rupture discs is manufactured using this company’s G2 technology for making rupture discs. The patented technology is capable of making rupture discs without the use of hard-score tooling. The process builds rupture discs that are free…
Super Strength Rare Earth Sight Glass Magnets are part of this company’s ProGrade product line of magnetic separators. The ProGrade Super Strength magnets are designed to remove fine and weakly magnetic ferrous contamination from materials flowing to injection machines or…
The Pharma parallel co-rotating twin-screw extruder is designed specifically for pharmaceutical applications to minimize material costs, be easier to use, and optimize space. To achieve this, the benchtop extruder uses a minimal amount of sample material and features a user-friendly…
The Perspecto CP television merges a human-machine interface (HMI) with a programmable logic controller (PLC) in one package. Traditional configurations utilize separate PLC hardware and software, and HMI hardware and software, the company says, but the Perspecto CP is a…
This company is introducing two new rotary tube furnaces that are suitable for heat treatment; calcination of powders, granules and fibers; pyrolysis; and the recycling and production of rare-earth metals. The FDHK-5-1400/10800/450 model operates at a maximum temperature of 550°C,…
The PCMini52 relative humidity (RH) and temperature probe utilizes a thin-film capacitive sensor, which is designed for extremely fast response and long-term stability for repeatable measurements. The design provides a large capacitive response to small changes in humidity that, in…