Caloric Anlagenbau GmbH (Graefelfing, Germany; www.caloric.com) will supply a new hydrogen generation plant in Indonesia. Design capacity of the plant is 1000 Nm3/h hydrogen. The steam reforming process will be initially started with natural gas as feedstock, but is also…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) announced today its purchase of a novel feed enzyme from the industrial biotechnology company Direvo Industrial Biotechnology GmbH (Cologne, Germany; www.direvo.com). Direvo´s tailor-made feed enzyme is an optimized and improved mannanase. It displays superior temperature…
Ineos Technologies (Cheshire, U.K.; www.ineostechnologies.com) today announced that it has licensed its Innovene polypropylene (PP) process to Zhong Tian He Chuang Energy Co. Located in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the 350,000 ton/yr plant will manufacture a full line…
There is no pdf available for this short news item Airgas, Inc. (Radnor, Pa.; www.airgas.com), with support from the Tulsa Metro Chamber and Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett, announced that it will hold a job fair to fill more than 60…
KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) was awarded a contract by TAIF Group to provide licensing and engineering services for the Veba Combi Cracker (VCC) to be implemented at the Nizhnikamsk petroleum refinery in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. Under the terms of…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) says that it is executing four contracts from Arkema France for basic engineering services to support the provision of Arkema's proprietary suspension and emulsion technology to four of its clients in China. Officials…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract by Joule Unlimited, Inc. (Bedford, Mass. www.jouleunlimited.com), to design and build a biofuels demonstration facility in New Mexico. Fluor booked the undisclosed contract value in…
Linde Engineering Dresden GmbH (www.linde.com) has acquired the Carbo-V Technology of the insolvent Choren Industries GmbH (Freiberg, Germany) from the insolvency administrator Dr. Bruno M. Kübler. The Carbo-V Technology (for flowsheet, see Chem. Eng., August 2003, p. 16; www.chemengonline.com/articles/2003/NewsChem/NewsChem08012003_14.html) constitutes…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed a major long-term contract with Evraz Highveld Steel and Vanadium, the second-largest steel producer in South Africa. Air liquide is investing around €40 million in a new air separation unit (ASU), with a…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has acquired 47% of shares of a major engineering company, PT. Inti Karya Persada Teknik (IKPT; Jakarta, Indonesia; www.ikpt.com). IKPT, an engineering company founded in 1982, has a lot of experience in engineering,…