Business & Economics
Air Liquide starts up world’s largest helium unit in Qatar
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) recently started up the world’s largest helium purification and liquefaction unit, a turnkey project at Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar. The new unit’s production capacity is approximately 38 million m3/yr of helium. The high technologies…
Praxair enters into industrial gas JV with Kuibyshevazot
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has entered into a definitive agreement to form a joint venture (JV) with OJSC KuibyshevAzot (Moscow, Russia; www.kuazot.ru), in central Russia’s Samara region, to produce and sell industrial gases. The JV will produce on-site oxygen,…
German R&D project to develop environmentally sustainable syngas production
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen; www.basf.com), the Linde Group (Munich; www.linde.com) and ThyssenKrupp AG (Essen, all Germany; www.thyssenkrupp.com) plan to develop an environmentally friendly and competitive basis for utilizing the climate gas carbon dioxide on an industrial scale. They aim to employ…
OSHA announces new program for occupational exposure to isocyanates
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced a new National Emphasis Program (NEP) to protect workers from the serious health effects from occupational exposure to isocyanates. OSHA will develop an NEP to focus outreach efforts and inspections on specific…
Recently published books for July 2013
Distillation Design and Control Using Aspen Simulation. 2nd ed. By William Luyben. John Wiley & Sons Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Web: wiley.com. 2013. 489 pages. $130.00. Engineering Material 2: An Introduction to Microstructures and Processing. 4th ed.…
A solution-based route to LLDPE
Polyethylene (PE) is the world’s largest-volume commodity polymer. Along with high-density (HDPE) and low-density (LDPE) polyethylene, linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) is one of the three main types of PE. The global market for LLDPE is over 20 million metric tons…
Linde to build large ammonia plant in Russia, and more business news
Plant Watch Uhde Inventa-Fischer to build commercial-scale Nofia plant June 12, 2013 — Uhde Inventa-Fischer AG (Berlin, Germany and Domat/Ems, Switzerland; www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) has won a contract to build the world’s first commercial-scale plant for production of Nofia, a flame retardant…
Douglas Joy becomes general manager of Heraeus Sensor Technology USA…
Hughey Joy Iafigliola Rochas Yuille Hovione (Loures, Portugal), a developer of active pharmaceutical ingredients and drug-product intermediates, appoints Justin Hughey , to lead the particle-design sciences team at its New Jersey site. Bayer MaterialScience LLC (Pittsburgh, Pa.) names…
Lifecycle Costs for Capital Equipment in the CPI
When considering project proposals for new processes in the chemical process industries (CPI), capital equipment costs often become the primary focus. The purpose of this article is to provide a detailed examination of the total cost of process equipment and…
Borealis acquires GPN and majority of Rosier European market
Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) says it has fully acquired GPN SA from the Total Group. GPN S.A. is France’s largest nitrogen fertilizer manufacturer. Borealis is already active in nitrogen fertilizers in Central Europe, as well as in France following…