The Industry Automation Div. of Siemens AG (Nuremburg, Germany; www.siemens.com) is providing Takreer (Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Co.) with a Zimpro wet air oxidation (WAO) system to treat refinery spent caustic as part of the company's expansion of its refinery…
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…
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,…
The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) says that its subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG), has been awarded a contract to design and supply two spray dry absorber (SDA) units and associated equipment…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has executed a definitive agreement by which Praxair sold its advanced components business to FM Industries, Inc. (Fremont, Calif.). FM Industries is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NGK Insulators of Japan. Terms of the transaction were…
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Plant Watch UOP’s Oleflex technology selected by Dow Chemical January 6, 2012 — UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, has been selected by The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) to provide technology to produce propylene at…