Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) has acquired U.S. software company ExperTune Inc. (Milwaukee, Wisc.). ExperTune's products are widely used as software tools to analyze and monitor the performance of industrial processes and to identify the associated maintenance and…
In over two decades since it entered the market, Endress+Hauser Endress+Hauser (Reinach, Switzerland; www.endress.com), a global leader in instrumentation and process automation solutions, has established itself in Indonesia as a supplier of high-quality measuring instruments and solutions. To strengthen this…
Clariant AG (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) has signed an agreement to divest its textile chemicals, paper specialties and emulsions businesses to SK Capital, a U.S.-based private investment firm with a focus on the specialty materials, chemicals and healthcare sectors. The divestment…
Plant Watch Stamicarbon wins contract for urea plant in China December 6, 2012 — Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard, the Netherlands; www.stamicarbon.com), the Licensing and IP Center of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.it), has been awarded a contract for a new…
Preliminary data from the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; top) for October 2012 (the most recent available) indicate that capital equipment prices dropped 0.35% from September to October. The current-year plant cost index is 3.2% lower than it was in…
Philippault Weser McCarthy Raty Azibert Peter Bigelow joins the board at engineering firm Integrated Project Services (Lafayette Hill, Pa.). Ton Büchner returns to AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) as CEO, after a medical-related absence. Matthieu Philippault joins the international sales team…
Farewell to CE readers Last month, after almost 12 years with Chemical Engineering, I resigned as this magazine’s Editor in Chief. I have been given an opportunity to work in my husband’s architectural design business, and the benefit of spending…
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In February 2012, KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) signed an agreement with TAIF-NK (www.en.taif.ru) to establish a Veba Combi Cracker (VCC) technology processing unit to be implemented at the Nizhnekamsk petroleum refinery in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia (www.chemengonline.com/only_on_che/latest_news/9005.html). The unit, whose…