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…
Capital equipment prices, as reflected in the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; top), dropped 2% from April to May (the most recent data). Meanwhile, all of the Current Business Indicators from IHS Global Insight, including the operating rate, increased slightly…
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…
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…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec; www.sinopec.com) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to further strengthen their cooperation by jointly exploring the possibility of building a world-scale isononanol (INA) plant in Maoming Hi-tech…
The Achema fair crew of Sommer Maschinen- & Anlagenbau (Düsseldorf, Germany), which now belongs to the HAVER Group (Oelde, Germany; www.haverboecker.com), says it received its first order on the first day of the Achema fair last month. Together with Fuchs…
Metabolix, Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.; www.metabolix.com) has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Antibioticos S.A. (www.antibioticos-sa.com) for production of Mirel biopolymer resin at its manufacturing facility in Leon, Spain. Under the terms of the LOI, Metabolix will begin work immediately…