ABB’s (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) Measurement Products business announced that its laboratory in Germany has received accreditation for independent testing and calibration of gas analyzers. Accreditation was awarded by the German Accreditation Service (DAkkS) in Berlin/Braunschweig. The laboratory in Frankfurt Praunheim…
Ineos Technologies (Rolle, Switzerland; www.ineos.com) has announced that it has entered into license agreements for its Innovene S and Innovene G polyethylene technologies to be used by the proposed Ascent (Appalachian Shale Cracker Enterprise) petrochemical complex currently being evaluated by…
The preliminary value for the July CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) rose 0.14% from the final June value, making it the fourth consecutive monthly gain. The Equipment, Construction Labor, Business and Engineering & Supervision subindicies all…
Hexcel Corp. (Stamford, Conn.; www.hexcel.com) has announced that it will expand its carbon fiber production capacity through the addition of new precursor and carbon fiber lines in Roussillon, France. The $250-million investment will also include the associated quality control laboratories…
Velocys plc (Plain City, Ohio; www.velocys.com) has raised £52 ($85) million (excluding expenses) for its work in the area of smaller scale gas-to-liquids (GTL). The funds were raised through an oversubscribed equity placing, priced at a slight premium to the…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) says that its joint venture (JV) with AMEC and Balfour Beatty has been selected by Sellafield Ltd. to deliver its Box Encapsulation Plant (BEP) project in West Cumbria, U.K. Sellafield officials noted that…
After having worked together for years across the globe, GEA Process Engineering (Søborg, Denmark; www.gep.com) announces the acquisition of Scan-Vibro A/S from Svendborg in Denmark. The acquisition is a perfect match and the plan is to further grow and develop…
Mitsui Chemicals Inc.’s (MCI; Tokyo; www.mitsuichem.com) wholly owned subsidiary Taiwan Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. has signed an exclusive license agreement with Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan (ITRI), allowing it to manufacture and distribute ITRI’s STOBA (self-terminated oligomers with hyper-branched architecture)…
Huntsman Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.huntsman.com) has announced that it has commenced preliminary engineering to expand production of methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) by investment in a new, world-scale MDI plant at its Geismar, La. site. The 400,000-metric-ton (m.t.) expansion…
Specialty chemical market volumes were flat in the U.S. for August, after gains in June and July, according to the latest weekly Chemistry and Economic Report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). Of the 28 specialty…