The logistics company Hoyer (Hamburg, Germany; www.hoyer-group.com) has expanded its Kombi Terminal Schkopau (KTSK) in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The terminal has been lengthened by 220 m and equipped with a second portal crane. New transhipment points and new storage capacities have…
ANSI/ISA-18.2, Management of Alarm Systems for the Process Industries, changed the world of alarm management when first published in 2009 with the introduction of activities grouped into the alarm management lifecycle, according to ISA (Research Triangle Park, N.C.; www.isa.org). That…
Amec Foster Wheeler plc (London, U.K.; www.amecfw.com) DeltaValve, LLC (Sandy, Utah; www.deltavalve.com), a leading provider of equipment and control systems for the delayed coking segment of the petroleum-refining industry, have formed a strategic alliance related to DeltaValve’s center feed technology.…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) is to suspend until further notice the production of soda ash at its plant in Alexandria, Egypt, as sharply higher energy costs have undermined the plant’s profitability. Customers will be served from Solvay’s other soda…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) announced an investment in excess of $100 million in its Geismar, Louisiana, facility to expand its carbon monoxide production and support growing customer demand in the Mississippi River corridor. The company will add a new,…
Amec Foster Wheeler plc. (London; U.K.; www.amecfw.com), announces the appointment of Dr. Jonathan (Jon) Lewis, as chief executive officer, with effect from 1 June 2016. On the same day Ian McHoul will cease to be interim CEO, and will remain…
SBS INTL Ltd. (London, U.K.; www.sbsintl.com) and Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.; www.bv.com) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the development of commercial-scale tidal current projects in Indonesia. The MoU was facilitated by the recent BKPM trade…
thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) has received a contract from HeidelbergCement AG to supply a new cement clinker production line. The 4,500-ton/d facility will be built at the Schelklingen plant in Baden-Württemberg as a replacement for an existing…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has signed an agreement to sell its global Polyolefin Catalysts business to W.R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.; www.grace.com). Currently, the Polyolefin Catalysts business is part of BASF’s Catalysts division. BASF and Grace intend to…
The world’s largest IndMax fluid-catalytic-cracking (FCC) unit, jointly licensed by CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) and Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. (IOCL), was successfully commissioned at IndianOil’s Paradip Refinery, Odisha, India, in early December 2015. The start-up is a major landmark…