Business & Economics
Wolfgang Siegel becomes CEO of Ter Hell Plastic GmbH…
Boyens Lainé Distaso Duncan Siegel Helmuth Möhwald is elected as a member of the Academia Europaea, a European non-governmental association whose memberships includes experts in technology, medicine, mathematics, economics, the law and more. He is director of the…
Bechtel acquires Chevron’s water treatment process and more business news
Plant Watch KBR to provide technology package for ammonia/urea plant in Indonesia February 7, 2013 — KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) has announced that it was selected by PT Pupuk Sriwidjaja Palembang, to provide licensing, engineering services and proprietary equipment for a…
Current Economic Indicators
Preliminary data from the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; top) for December 2012 (the most recent available) indicate that capital equipment prices rose 0.37% from November to December, reversing the dip from the previous month. Even after the rise, the…
Outotec grows its maintenance services by acquiring Scanalyse
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed an agreement to acquire Scanalyse Holdings Pty Ltd., an Australian-based software technology company with operations in Australia, Brazil, Chile and the U.S. Scanalyse provides services in process equipment condition and performance monitoring. The…
Caloric awarded contract to build a methanol reformer in Indonesia
Caloric Anlagenbau GmbH (Gräfelfing, Germany; www.caloric.com) has been awarded a contract for the engineering and manufacturing of a new hydrogen generation plant from a major chemical company in Indonesia once again. The plant will be able to produce 700 Nm³/h…
Successful operation of high-pressure, entrained flow gasification
On the way to the production of environment-friendly fuels from biomass residue, the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT; Karlsruhe, Germany; www.edu), in cooperation with the technology partner Air Liquide Global E&C Solutions, has realized another important milestone: the second process…
First field testing on frac-water treatment system from OriginOil
OriginOil, Inc. (Los Angeles, Calif.; www.originoil.com), the developer of a breakthrough energy production process for the oil and algae industries, today announced its CLEAN-FRAC water treatment system for the oil and gas industry successfully completed its first field testing on…
BASF to open R&D technology center for battery materials in Japan
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will open a new Research and Development Laboratory and an Application Technology Center for Battery Materials in Amagasaki, Japan. The facilities will be fully operational by the end of 2013. The laboratory will focus on…
Toyo awarded ammonia project in Indonesia
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been awarded a contract to build an ammonia plant for PT Panca Amara Utama (PAU), a subsidiary of PT. Surya Esa Perkasa Tbk. (SEP), one of Indonesia’s leading LPG producing companies. The…
Bilfinger Water Technologies: A new strong connection
Passavant-Geiger GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bilfinger SE (Aarbergen, Germany; www.bilfinger.com), has acquired Johnson Screens, a global leader in screening products for water infrastructure, wastewater treatment, hydrocarbon processing and general filtration. Combining the competencies and resources of these two…