ASD Global Inc. (Walnut Creek, Calif.; www.asdglobalinc.com) has joined Intergraph Corp. (Huntsville, Ala.; www.intergraph.com) in Intergraph’s SmartPlant Alliance as an Alliance Technology Partner, interfacing ASD’s software with Intergraph Smart 3D next-generation 3D design software. This partnership provides an integrated solution…
Cabot Corp. (Boston, Mass.; www.cabot-corp.com) has been awarded contracts by two U.S. utilities to supply its Darco Hg family of activated-carbon products to remove mercury from the flue gas of coal-fired power plants in the Midwest. In order to meet stringent…
Siemens AG (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) has appointed Janina Kugel, previously corporate vice president of Human Resources and Siemens' chief diversity officer, to the Managing Board by the Supervisory Board of Siemens. Kugel will succeed Siegfried Russwurm as head of Human…
Methanex Corp. (Vancouver, B.C., Canada; www.methanex.com) announced that the company successfully started up its new methanol plant in Geismar, La. The plant’s capacity is 1 million metric tons per year (m.t./yr) methanol. The plant was relocated from the company's production…
Fluid-handling specialist company Asahi/America, Inc. (Malden, Mass.; www.asahi-america.com) recently announced the promotion of Daniel S. Anderson to the office of president and chief executive officer (CEO). The announcement was made to Asahi/America employees December 11, 2014 by former President and…
Matheson Tri-Gas, Inc. (www.mathesongas.com), a member of the Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp. (Tokyo), has entered into an agreement with Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa; www.sasol.co.za) to supply tonnage oxygen and nitrogen to Sasol’s world-scale ethane cracker, which is part of…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) plans to invest up to €56 million in the expansion of its polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) value chain over the next four years. PVP is a polymer that is used in diverse industries, for example the pharmaceutical…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) will build a new manufacturing and filling facility in the Netherlands to produce hydrogen peroxide grades that are used as disinfection and decontamination agents to meet growing demand from the pharmaceutical industry. The new facility…
Algenol LLC (Ft. Myers, Fla.; www.algenol.com) and Reliance Industries Ltd. have successfully deployed India’s first Algenol algae production platform. The demonstration module is located near the Reliance Jamnagar Refinery. “The project is designed to demonstrate how robust the Algenol system is…
Abengoa (Seville, Spain; www.abengoa.com) has been selected by Advanced Water Technology (AWT) to jointly develop the world’s first large-scale desalination plant to be powered by solar energy, in Saudi Arabia. AWT is a newly formed company based in Riyadh whose…