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Air Products to acquire DuPont’s stake in DA NanoMaterials  

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of DuPont’s (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) interest in DuPont Air Products NanoMaterials LLC (DA NanoMaterials; Tempe, Ariz.; www.nanoslurry.com ), the two companies’ 50-50 joint venture serving…

Rotating machinery handbook reviewed by consultant Almasi

Forsthoffer’s Best Practice Handbook for Rotating Machinery. By William Forsthoffer. Elsevier Inc., 30 Corporate Drive, 4th floor, Burlington, MA 01803. Web: elsevier.com. 2011. 672 pages. $295.00. Reviewed by Amin Almasi, Rotating machinery consultant, Brisbane, Australia   Rotating machines require expertise…

Adil Toubia becomes CEO of the Oil & Gas Division of Siemens Energy…

Feenan Wallis-Lage Reckmann Toubia Hu Styron (Berwyn, Pa.), which operates plastics, rubber and latex businesses, promotes John Feenan to executive vice president and CFO. Shimadzu Corp. (Columbia, Md.) names Shuzo Maruyama president of Shimadzu Scientific Instruments. Black & Veatch (Kansas…

CE scholarship applications open

  Chemical Engineering is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for its annual Nicholas P. Chopey scholarship program. Bringing recognition to the value of the chemical engineering profession and striving to continually advance it have been goals…

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AkzoNobel invests 80-million euros to supply pulp mill in Brazil and more business news

Plant Watch AkzoNobel invests €80 million to supply new Suzano pulp mill in Brazil February 1, 2012 — AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) plans to invest €80 million in the construction of a new pulp “chemical island” facility in Brazil.…

Show Preview: Interphex 2012 Conference and Exhibition

The Interphex 2012 conference and exhibition, which will bring together a wide range of professionals and companies in the arena of pharmaceutical production equipment and services, takes place May 1–3 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York. The…

Current economic trends

Capital equipment prices, as reflected in the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI), decreased 0.34% from November to December. Decreases are typical during the third quarter. Annual CEPCI data will be released in the April 2012 issue, when the December 2011…

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Successful commissioning of a polyamide 6.6 plant at Huafon Group in Ruian,  China  

The engineering company Uhde Inventa-Fischer (Berlin, Germany and Domat/Ems, Switzerland; www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) has successfully commissioned a plant for the production of polyamide 6.6 for its Chinese customer Huafon Group. The production plant has an annual capacity of 40,000 metric tons and…

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WorleyParsons awarded Evonik contract  

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has awarded WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) a contract for the detailed engineering, procurement support and construction management on the building of world-scale plants for the production of isophorone and isophorone diamine. The…

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Far East Petrochemical selects Axens’ butene and hexene technologies   

ZAO “Far East Petrochemical Co.” (FEPCO), which is implementing the project of OJSC “NK Rosneft” for the construction of petrochemical complex to be located in Primorsk region of Russia, has selected Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) AlphaButol and AlphaHexol technologies for…