Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Mechatronics Systems, Ltd. (MHI-MS), a group company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi-global.com), has received an order for wastewater treatment facilities employing its proprietary "two-phase activated sludge system," an advanced wastewater treatment technology, for…
From March 1, 2015 the full subsidiary Lauda Scientific GmbH (Lauda-Königshofen, Germany; www.lauda.de) will take over the development, sales and customer service for Lauda measuring instruments. For the managing director Gunther Wobser, this new foundation constitutes consistent development: “With this…
Amec Foster Wheeler (London, U.K.; www.amecfw.com) has been awarded two contracts by Freeport-McMoRan Inc. for the design and supply of a new wet-fluegas-desulfurization system at their existing copper smelter facility in Miami, Arizona. The value of the contracts has not…
The deadline for accepting nominations for the 2015 Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Achievement Award has been extended to March 23. For more details on how to submit your nomination, see the January 2015 Editor's Page, which can be found here: www.chemengonline.com/kirkpatrick-award-call-nominations.
Johnson Matthey (West Deptford, N.J.; www.matthey.com) has announced completion and commissioning of new high containment facilities for potent product manufacture at its Edinburgh, U.K. site (Macfarlan Smith). Macfarlan Smith is an established provider of opiates, controlled substance and highly potent…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) is expanding its existing vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions production facilities in the U.S. Wacker will add a new reactor with an annual capacity of 85,000 metric tons (m.t.) at its Calvert City, Ky.…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has made bio-based Polytetrahydrofuran 1000 (tradenamed PolyTHF 1000) available for the first time. The company is now providing this intermediate to selected partners for testing various applications in a large scale. “The bio-based PolyTHF 1000…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is significantly expanding its production capacity for about 20 specialty amines at its Verbund site in Ludwigshafen. The company will therefore invest a double-digit million euro amount in expanding current production facilities, which are planned…
SNC-Lavalin (Montreal, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded a second engineering and procurement contract by Azomures, for a new gas emissions treatment facility at a nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium (NPK) fertilizer production plant in Târgu Mures, Romania. The contract will be…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) is currently building a new plant for specialty monomers with an annual capacity of 3,800 metric tons (m.t.) at its Burghausen, Germany site. The Group has budgeted around €8 million for this. The specialty…