Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.; www.bv.com) will help the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) enhance the environment by expanding wastewater treatment facilities (WWTF) in the city. Black & Veatch will undertake a feasibility study, and prepare a detailed…
Amec Foster Wheeler (London, U.K.; www.amecfw.com) has started work on an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for Louisville Gas and Electric Company (LG&E) and Kentucky Utilities Company (KU) for a coal combustion residuals (CCR) — otherwise known as coal…
On July 4, Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) signed an agreement to acquire the probiotics business of the Spanish company Norel, a global supplier of animal feed ingredients. The agreement sees Evonik acquiring Norel’s probiotics product portfolio as well…
akvola Technologies (Berlin, Germany; www.akvola.com), a water technology company providing solutions for the removal of oils and suspended solids from hard-to-treat industrial effluents, won the WssTP Water Innovation SME Awards 2016. The WssTP Innovation and Technology Advisory Board (iTAB) chose…
Chinese steel producer Shandong Iron & Steel Corp. Ltd. (Shansteel) has ordered a selective waste-gas recirculation (SWGR) system from Primetals Technologies Ltd. (London, U.K.; www.primetals.com) for its new sinter plant in Rizhao, Shandong Province. It is the first order for…
Specialty chemicals group Altana AG (Wesel, Germany; www.altana.com) has acquired Addcomp Holland BV (Nijverdal, the Netherlands), a developer and manufacturer of unique polymer additive solutions. Addcomp will be integrated into the Plastic Additives business line of Altana’s largest division BYK…
voestalpine Stahl GmbH has given Primetals Technologies Ltd. (London, U.K.; (www.primetals.com) the final acceptance certificate for the Seku 3.1 secondary dedusting system in the Linz plant. The system was constructed during the course of voestalpine's SEK MET 4 project and…
Universal Display Corp. (UDC; Ewing, N.J.; www.oled.com) announced yesterday that through its wholly-owned subsidiary UDC Ireland Limited, it has acquired the OLED (organic light-emitting diode) Intellectual Property (IP) assets of BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com). Representing 15 years of research…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) recently commissioned and brought onstream its second integrated oxy-fuel solution for Techpack Solutions in Korea. The cutting-edge offering helps this leading Korean container glassmaker reap multiple benefits of reduced emissions and improved energy efficiency,…
GEA (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.gea.com) has designed, manufactured and delivered a gas-jet compressor system for an offshore platform in the North Sea consisting of a jet pump (ejector) with a total length of about 4.5 m and silencers to reduce the…