NORTH AMERICA World Class Process Safety Management for Chemicals, Petrochemicals & Refining. T.A. Cook Consultants (Houston). Phone: 919-510-8142; Web: tacook.com/psmusa Houston, Tex. September 18–20 Plastics in Photovoltaics 2012. Applied Market Information LLC (Wyomissing, Pa.). Phone: 610-478-0800; Web: amiplastics.com/events Phoenix,…
Arbitrarily, process leads can be categorized into three different sub-categories or levels. Level one process leads are those who directly interact with the client to achieve the results required of the project, and are therefore accountable for any and all…
Plant Watch BASF plans to expand vinylformamide capacity in Ludwigshafen and... July 5, 2012 — BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is planning to expand the manufacturing plant for vinylformamide (VFA) in Ludwigshafen. In addition, it intends to increase the polymerization…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) and Orbite Aluminae have agreed to terms for a project related to the Canadian company's new plant to process high purity alumina. The scope of delivery for Outotec involves both basic and detail engineering as…
Dearth Scott Palucci Cohen Dalvi Calgon Carbon Corp. (Pittsfield, Pa.) names Randall Dearth as president and CEO and Seth Schofield as independent chairman of the board. Jörg Krüger joins Orion Engineered Carbons (Kingwood, Tex.) as senior vice president of…
Cobalt Technologies (Cobalt; Mountain View, Calif.; www.cobalttech.com) and Rhodia, a member of the Solvay Group (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com), today announced they will begin joint development and operation of a biobutanol demonstration facility in Brazil. This is one more step by…
Asymmetrical offset cone-shape drum cones from this company are designed to facilitate lifting, tilting and dispensing dry contents from 55-gal steel or fiber drums. Cones are available with iris valves, slide gates, valve flanges or a 6-in. dia. opening. One…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill. www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, has been selected by Russia’s Lukoil to provide technology to produce blending components used to make high-octane gasoline and petrochemicals at its facility in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Lukoil will license an…
Microchannel Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) reactor technology developed by Velocys, Inc. (Plain City, Ohio; www.velocys.com),, the U.S.-based subsidiary of the Oxford Catalysts Group (Abingdon, U.K.; www.oxfordcatalysts.com), has been selected for use in a waste-to-liquids (WTL) commercial demonstration plant to be constructed in…
The Shaw Group Inc. (Baton Rouge, La.; www.shawgrp.com) has signed a definitive merger agreement with CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) under which CB&I will acquire Shaw in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $3 billion. Under the terms…