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…
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 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…
“The member companies of Germany’s Large Industrial Plant Manufacturer’s Group (AGAB; Frankfurt am Main; www.grossanlagenbau.vdma.org) booked orders worth €24.9 billion in 2011, an 11% increase compared to the previous year (€22.4 billion in 2010)”, announced Helmut Knauthe, AGAB spokesman and…
Guodian Northeast Environmental Protection Industry Group, Ltd. has selected Siemens Industry Automation Division (Nuremberg, Germany; www.siemens.com/water) to supply an IPS composting system using the new Mechanically Enhanced Biodrying (MEB) process for the Shenyang Wastewater Treatment Plant Sludge Treatment Project in…
Both the global and U.S. chemical production regional indices (Global CPRI and U.S. CPRI, respectively) rose in February, according to the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). The global CPRI…
GEA Group AG (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.geagroup.com) has received an order worth more than €70 million from Fonterra in New Zealand. The order will be handled by the GEA Process Engineering Segment. The new whole milk powder plant which only utilizes…
Royal DSM N.V. (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding between its U.S.-based Business Unit DSM Functional Materials and Empresa Brasileira de Biotecnologia S.A. (Ebrabiotech; Araraquara, Brazil) for the launch of a new line of DSM-branded bio-based…
WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) has been awarded the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract for the delivery of the Tsagaan Suvarga copper-molybdenum concentrator project for the Mongolyn Alt (MAK) Corp. MAK is the largest privately owned company…
Samsung Engineering (Seoul, Korea; www.samsungengineering.co.kr) officially signed a contract, worth approximately $1 billion, with LUKOIL Mid-East Ltd. for the project management, engineering, procurement, supply, transportation, construction, pre-commissioning of facilities comprising the Oil Gathering System, Central Processing Facilities and Water Supply…