Green Biologics, Inc. (Gahanna, Ohio; www.greenbiologics.com), a technology developer and emerging bio-based chemicals, and Central MN Ethanol Co-op (CMEC; www.centralmnethanol.com), an ethanol producer in Little Falls, Minn., have announced that Green Biologics, Inc. has entered into an exclusive letter of…
Biogas plant manufacturer Weltec Biopower GmbH (Vechta, Germany; www.weltec-biopower.com) has partnered with French company Domaix Energie to roll out four agricultural biogas plant projects in France. Apart from agricultural substrates, the biogas plants, whose construction has already started, will use…
K-Tron (Pitman, N.J.; www.ktron.com) , a global leader in feeding, dosing and pneumatic-conveying equipment and systems, will operate under the brand name Coperion K-Tron. Coperion (Stuttgart, Germany; www.coperion.com) was acquired by U.S.-based Hillenbrand, Inc. (www.Hillenbrand.com) in December 2012. K-Tron has…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) now produces its new cost-efficient binders (CEBs) based on styrene-acrylics and styrene butadiene at its site in Hamina, Finland. Since 2012, the successful product line has already been supplied primarily to customers in Central Europe…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) and Secar Technologie GmbH (Hönigsberg, Austria) have established the LiteCon Advanced Composite Products joint venture on September 4. The aim of the newly established enterprise is to mass-produce fiber-reinforced composite components for the automotive…
Praxair India Private Limited, a subsidiary of Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has signed two long-term contracts with JSW Steel, to operate small on-site nitrogen plants in support of the company’s expansion efforts in the cities of Kalameshwar and Tarapur,…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCm) contract by Sasol Petroleum International (SPI) for the low pressure compression project…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp), through its Canadian subsidiary Toyo Engineering Canada Ltd., has signed a contract to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) service to Japan Canada Oil Sands Ltd. (Jacos), a subsidiary of Japan Petroleum Exploration…
Bigger is better. That simple statement summarizes one of the fundamental principles of chemical engineering. It is a statement that we frequently want to ignore, but if capital efficiency is the main concern, it is always true. All engineers need…
Cabot Corporation (Boston, Mass.; www.cabot-corp.com) and joint venture partner Risun Group announced the completion and commissioning of their new carbon black manufacturing facility in Xingtai, Hebei Province, China. Cabot and Risun invested approximately $140 million in the new facility, with…