The 84th annual Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference (Weftec 2011) will take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center from October 15–19 (the exhibition runs from October 17–19). The largest annual water quality event in the world…
Griffiths Heintzelman Lipetzky Harris Park Carbogen Amcis AG (Bubendorf, Switzerland), a pharmaceutical process developer and manufacturer of active pharmaceutical ingredients, names Mark Griffiths CEO. GE Energy (Atlanta, Ga.), names Dan Heintzelman CEO of GE Oil & Gas. He is currently…
Plant Watch Solvay to form JV with Sadara to build H2O2 plant in Saudi Arabia July 28, 2011 — Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) intends to create a 50:50 joint venture (JV) with Sadara Chemical Co. (itself a planned JV…
Reviewed by Ronnie Montgomery, Kvaerner America, Houston Those of us who have been challenged by the complexities of process-control-loop strategies can appreciate the in-depth knowledge and experience that Myke King has shared with us in this text. This book provides…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, has begun construction in Hawaii of a biofuels demonstration unit that will convert forest residuals, algae and other cellulosic biomass into green transportation fuels. Backed by a $25-million U.S. Dept. of…
KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) was awarded a contract by Jaiprakash Associates Ltd (JAL) — a Jaypee Group company — to provide license and engineering design services for JAL’s brownfield 2,200 metric tons (m.t.) per day ammonia plant in Kanpur, India. KBR…
Air Liquide (Paris; www.airliquide.com) today announced that its engineering and construction division has signed a contract with the Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group (SNCG; China) to build a 500,000 ton/y methanol-to-propylene (MTP) plant. The new plant will follow the successful…
World production totals for the chemical industry rose in July, with the Global Chemical Production Regional Index (Global CPRI) up 4.4% on the basis of a year-over-year (Y/Y), three-month moving average. However, the production pace has slowed, according the latest…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen; www.evonik.com) is increasing the production capabilities of its methyl methacrylate plants through debottlenecking and plant expansion projects in their existing plants in Europe (Worms and Wesseling in Germany), Asia (Shanghai in China), and the U.S. (Fortier)…
KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) was awarded a contract by Zeon Chemicals (Zeon; Louisville, Ky.; www.zeonchemicals.com) to provide construction management and construction services for Zeon’s nitrile-rubber plant-expansion project in Pasadena, Texas. KBR will manage the first phase of Zeon’s expansion plan,…