Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com), a global minerals and metals processing service and technology provider, has openedf its Western U.S. office in Denver, Colorado. Outotec's Canada based North America Market Area president, Marcus Horn, oversees the facilities now located in…
Ashland Inc. (Covington, Ky.; www.ashland.com) finalized the sale of its water technologies business, Ashland Water Technologies. Going forward, Ashland Water Technologies will operate under the new name Solenis (Wilmington, Del.; www.solenis.com). The name change coincides with the acquisition of Ashland…
NORTH AMERICA 5th Biobased Chemicals Conference: Commercialization & Partnering. Global Tech Community (Monrovia, Calif.). Phone: 626-256-6405; Web: gtcbio.com San Francisco, Calif. Sept. 18–19 43rd Turbomachinery and 30th Pump Users’ Symposia. Texas A&M University (College Station, Tex.). Phone: 979-845-7417; Web:…
Baumann Ghasemi Guy Quinn Blackburn Gerhard Baumann becomes managing director for Brookfield GmbH (Lorch, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany), a maker of laboratory instrumentation. Specialty gas company Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) appoints Seifi Ghasemi chairman, president and CEO, succeeding John McGlade,…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has signed a binding agreement to sell its sulfuric acid virgin production and regeneration business Eco Services to affiliates of CCMP Capital Advisors, LLC. “The divestment of Eco Services is another step in Solvay’s…
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo, Japan; www.sdk.co.jp) has decided to acquire a high-purity chlorine business in Taiwan, in order to strengthen its special-material gas business. Taiwan Showa Chemicals Manufacturing Co. (TSCM), a subsidiary of SDK, has come to a general…
Mitsubishi Rayon Co. (MRC; Tokyo, Japan; www.mrc.co.jp) has executed a share sales and purchase agreement by which MRC will acquire 51% of Wethje Holding GmbH, a German company engaged in manufacturing of carbon-fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) parts for automobile applications,…
ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) has announced that it is collaborating with Renewable Algal Energy, LLC (RAE; Johnson City, Tenn.; www.rae-energy.com) on the commercialization of integrated algal production systems that will produce algaeâ€based products for the nutraceutical, animal nutrition, and renewable…
Aveva (Cambridge, U.K.; www.aveva.com) has launched AVEVA Information Standards Manager (AVEVA ISM), a software product that enables both EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) contractors and asset owner operators to achieve greater control over critical engineering information across their projects and enterprises. It…
AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has partnered with the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (Seris) at the National University of Singapore in order to explore less costly ways of producing high-efficiency silicon-wafer solar cells. AkzoNobel's High Purity Metalorganics (HPMO)…