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Jacobs wins new acid plant contract for Teck’s Trail smelter  

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Teck Metals Ltd. to design and supply a new sulfuric acid plant for its Trail operation located in British Columbia, Canada. Officials estimate the contract value to be…

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Evonik breaks ground on new organics production facility in Shanghai  

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.om) broke ground to mark the official start of the construction for the upper two-digit-million-euro investment in Shanghai, China on March 20, 2012. The ceremony was attended by more than 200 guests including government officials,…

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Messer starts production of Kr and Xe in China  

Messer (Bad Soden/Frankfurt, Germany; www.messergroup.com) the largest privately run industrial gases specialist, has started up a plant for the production of the noble gases krypton and xenon. A sophisticated process extracts the rare gases from the air, which are mainly…

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Siemens delivers another wet air oxidation system to Sinopec  

Siemens Industry Automation Division (Nuremberg, Germany; www.siemens.com/water) is providing another Zimpro wet air oxidation (WAO) system to treat wastewater at Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical Co.’s facility, near the Yangzi River in Jiangsu Province, China. The most recent of seven Zimpro WAO…

Price ratio of oil to natural gas increases to record level, ACC says

The ratio of oil prices to natural gas prices rose to 50.7 to 1 this week, higher than the 48.8 to 1 level from last week, according to data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA; Washington, D.C.; www.eia.gov) that were…

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MoU to market tri-generation, stationary fuel-cell power plants  

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) and FuelCell Energy, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.fuelcellenergy.com) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work toward the market development of stationary Direct FuelCell (DFC) power plants that simultaneously produce hydrogen, ultra-clean electricity and…

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GEA acquires Swiss specialist in aseptic valves  

GEA Group AG (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.geagroup.com) has acquired Aseptomag (Kirchberg, Switzerland), one of the world’s leading suppliers of aseptic and hygienic valves, valve modules, and system solutions. Aseptomag had a workforce of 35 employees and generated revenue of around CHF19.5…

Pump users recognition program introduced by ITT Goulds Pumps

ITT Goulds Pumps (Seneca Falls, N.Y.; www.gouldspumps.com) today announced that nominations are open for a new recognition program to honor individuals who do an exceptional job of specifying, operating and maintaining industrial pumps. The Pulse of Industry Honor Roll is…

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Dover’s Pump Solutions Group acquires Maag Group

Pump Solutions Group (PSG), a business unit within the Engineered Systems segment of Dover Corp. (Downer’s Grove, Ill.; www.DoverCorporation.com), has completed the acquisition of Maag Group (Maag; Zurich, Switzerland; www.maag.com) for a purchase price of approximately $285 million, subject to normal…

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MHI Receives Large-scale CO2 recovery plant order for Quatar  

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.co.jp) has received an order for a large-scale carbon-dioxide recovery plant for Qatar Fuel Additives Co., Ltd. (QAFAC), a major fuel additive producer in Qatar, through MHI Industrial Engineering & Services Private Ltd.…