Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) is again increasing its presence in Australia’s rapidly growing LNG (liquefied natural gas) production market. Air Products has signed an agreement with JKC Joint Venture (JV) and INPEX Operations Australia Pty Ltd, for the…
Black & Veatch (B&V; Overland Park, Kan.; www.bv.com), in partnership with Chemtex, has been selected by Jilin Qianyuan Energy Development to deliver a major liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility. Once completed in late 2013, the 500,000-Nm3/d plant will be the…
Overall production from the U.S. chemical industry rose by 0.2% in March, but the pattern has been uneven over the past several months, according to the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.;…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has been selected by Gol-E-Gohar Mining & Industrial Co. to design and provide technology for an iron ore pelletizing plant located in the Kerman province of Iran. The plant's annual capacity is approximately five million…
Praxair Mexico, a subsidiary of Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has signed a new contract with Deacero, a leading Mexican steel company, to supply oxygen, argon and nitrogen to a new plant being built in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, a major…
The Society for Biological Engineering (SBE; New York; http://bio.aiche.org/) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) has announced the inaugural winners of the D. I. C. Wang Award for Excellence in Biochemical Engineering. The inaugural recipients of the award,…
The XHD Extra Heavy Duty Lined Slurry Pump from ITT Goulds Pumps (Seneca Falls, N.Y.; www.gouldspumps.com) took top honors at this year's Pump Industry Awards, presented by the British Pump Manufacturers' Association. The XHD pump, which serves the mining…
Aveva (Manchester, U.K.; www.aveva.com) has today announced the commercial release of a brand new product in its Aveva Plant portfolio, Aveva Laser Modeller, a 3D laser scanning software solution that can reduce brownfield facility intelligent 3D modeling time by up…
Sales of chemicals at the wholesale level rose in February by 1.6%, to $9.8 billion, according to data from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) that are found in ACC’s latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report. Chemical inventories…
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) says it is going to release a new version of IUCLID 5 (International Uniform Chemical Information Database; http://iuclid.eu) in late May 2012 and, subsequently, a new release of REACH-IT, the information technology infrastructure that underpins…