Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) is planning on expanding its business and building a steam-methane reformer to increase the supply of hydrogen for its liquid hydrogen plant in Niagara Falls, N.Y. This investment will serve growing needs for hydrogen in…
Sulzer Chemtech (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzer.com) is taking over Aixfotec GmbH, a leading technology company in extrusion systems for the production of polymer foams, based in Aachen, Germany. The acquisition was signed and concluded on March 31, 2014. This acquisition widens…
Ill Travers Wang Buscher Thuerig Bühler Aeroglide (Cary, N.C.), a manufacturer of engineered thermal-process systems, names Hans-Jörg Ill president and CEO. Detlev Rose becomes chief sales officer at Beumer Group GmbH & Co. KG (Beckum, Germany) a manufacturer of packaging,…
Aspen Technology, Inc. (Burlington, Mass.; www.aspentech.com), a provider of software and services to the process industries, announced it has acquired the Sulsim sulfur simulation software from Sulphur Experts Inc.(www.sulphurexperts.com). The Sulsim sulfur-recovery product has been used by the world’s leading…
Plant Watch ExxonMobil to construct butyl rubber and hydrocarbon resin plants in Singapore March 6, 2014 — ExxonMobil Chemical Co. (Houston; www.exxonmobilchemical.com) plans to build facilities to manufacture halobutyl rubber and hydrogenated hydrocarbon resin at its petrochemical complex in Singapore.…
The annual 2013 CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) is available, and stands at 3.0% lower than the 2012 annual average value. However, the initial numbers for 2014 (January 2014 preliminary) generally increased from the final December index values from…
The piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) is often considered to be the gold standard for the proper design, operation and maintenance of plants in the chemical process industries (CPI), including chemical, oil-and-gas facilities, mining operations, food-processing plants, and water- and…
Brenntag AG (Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany; www.brenntag.com) has acquired Gafor Distribuidora Ltd, a distributor of specialty solvents in Latin America, which is part of Grupo Gafor headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The largest industries being served by Gafor are…
PPG Industries, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.ppg.com) has announced the successful completion of the previously announced sale to Essilor International of its 51% ownership interest in its Transitions Optical joint venture (JV) and PPG’s wholly-owned sun-lens business. Essilor International had held…
Samsung Engineering Co., (Seoul, South Korea; www.samsungengineering.com) has officially announced that it was awarded the North (Hammar Mishrif) New Degassing Station Facilities contract for the ENI Zubair Oil Field Development project in Iraq, worth $840 million. The development of the…