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Hamworthy lands breakthrough liquefaction contract for biogas plant  

Hamworthy Oil & Gas Systems (Poole, Dorset, U.K.; www.hamworthy.com) has secured its first contract for a biogas liquefaction plant with Norwegian company Cambi AS, a specialist in biowaste treatment. The biogas plant will treat 50,000 tons of food waste a…

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Wacker expands polymer site in China  

Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) is expanding its Chinese polymer activities by investing around €40 million in building two new production facilities at its Nanjing site. Wacker is expanding the site’s existing facilities for vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions…

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SGL Group opens new production facility in India  

SGL Group — The Carbon Company (Wiesbaden Germany; www.sglcarbon.com)  has further expanded its production in Pune, India, gaining a larger footprint in the Indian growth market. At the new production facility, the manufacture of graphite-based system components (heat exchangers and…

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Stamicarbon urea technology licensed to Shahjalal in Bangladesh  

Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard, the Netherlands; www.stamicarbon.com), the licensing and IP Center of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (www.mairetecnimont.it), has signed license and process-design and services agreements with China Chengda Engineering Company (CHENGDA) and China National Plant Import & Export Corp. (ComPlant), for…

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…