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Gulotty becomes technical manager for Applied Catalysts….

Cassidy Nguer Gutjahr   Doornbos Hammer Robert Gulotty becomes technical manager for Applied Catalysts (Doraville, Ga.), a developer of catalysts for chemical processing and pollution-abatement applications. Kevin Cassidy is named chemical and monitoring solutions general manager, water and process technologies,…

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Revamping Your Process Plant

When a process plant is set up, an owner has several things in mind; the market demand for his product and hence the plant capacity, the plant cost, the space availability, space for future expansion and so on. Once a…

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Wacker invests €40 million to expand polymer site in China and more…

Plant Watch Wacker invests €40 million to expand polymer site in China March 5, 2012 — Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) is expanding its polymer activities by investing around €40 million to build two new production facilities at its…

U.S. production of plastic resins is up from last year, ACC says

Production of major plastic resins in the U.S. was 6.2 billion lb in February, a total that is 11.9% higher than the same month last year, according to an analysis by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). In…

Normal 0 EPA rules proposed to limit new uses of potentially harmful chemicals

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed that companies be required to report to the agency all new uses, including domestic or imported products, of five groups of potentially harmful chemicals. The chemicals have been used in consumer products…

More time for facilities to meet boiler tune-up requirements

On March 13, 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; Washington, D.C.; www.epa.gov) issued a “No Action Assurance (NAA) Letter” to area source facilities required to conduct boiler tune-up by March 21, 2012, under the Area Source Rule. This means…

Lucid Energy’s in-pipe hydropower system is commercially available

Lucid Energy (Portland, Ore.; www.lucidenergy.com) today announced the commercial availability of its in-pipe hydropower system, known as the LucidPipe Power System. This renewable energy system enables large users of energy and water — such as municipal water and wastewater, agricultural…

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Toyo awarded ethylene plant contract for Ethydco  

Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been jointly awarded, with ENPPI — an engineering company under the Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum — a contract to build a 460,000 ton/yr ethylene plant and a 20,000 ton/yr butadiene extraction plant…

Verenium sells oilseed processing business and licensed enzymes to DSM

Industrial biotechnology company Verenium Corp. (San Diego, Calif.; www.verenium.com) today announced it has closed a transaction with DSM Food Specialties B.V., a business group of Royal DSM (Heerlen, The Netherlands; www.dsm.com), in which Verenium has sold to DSM its oilseed…

OPX Bio demonstrates bio-based acrylic acid at 3,000-L scale

OPX Biotechnologies Inc. (OPX; Boulder, Colo.; www.opxbio.com) today announced that the company has successfully demonstrated its fermentation process for bio-based acrylic acid at the 3,000-L scale. OPX is working with The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) to bring its…