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…
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…
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.…
Rhein Chemie (Mannheim, Germany; www.rheinchemie.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Lanxess (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com), has acquired Tire Curing Bladders LLC (TCB; Little Rock, Arkansas), a leading manufacturer of bladders for the tire industry. TCB is a privately owned company that…
BASF (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com), through its global battery materials business unit, today announced that it has signed a long-term licensing agreement to acquire global rights for the production and sale of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery materials technology from LiFePO4+C…
David Weidman, chairman and CEO of Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com), was honored at a dinner event in New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel last night. Stephanie Burns, chairman of the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI), America International Group, presented the…
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) has been selected to supply air gases to chemicals producer Dahua Group on Songmu Island in Dalian, Northeast China. Linde will be investing around €70 million in the project. An agreement outlining the terms…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has signed a long-term contract with Henan Xinlianxin Fertilizer (Xinlianxin) and will build, own and operate an air separation unit (ASU) and integrated gas liquefier in Henan Province, China. The ASU will produce approximately…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract by Petronas for its proposed Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (Rapid) project located in the state of Johor, Malaysia. Rapid aims at building a world-scale integrated refinery…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Vale Canada Ltd. (Vale) to design and supply a new sulfuric acid plant for its Sudbury smelter in Ontario, Canada. The acid plant contract, with an estimated value…