Lopes Brodersen Lewis Comerford Lopes Ton Büchner, president and CEO of Sulzer AG, will become CEO of AkzoNobel NV (Amsterdam) in January 2012, when current CEO Hans Wijers steps down. Sönke Brodersen, head of research…
Capital cost assessment is an integral part of process design when building or expanding a chemical process plant. It is required to provide project analysis and evaluation, to select among alternative designs, to plan the appropriation of funds and to…
NORTH AMERICA ACS Fall National Meeting & Exposition. American Chemical Soc. (Washington, D.C.). Phone: 202-872-4600; Web: acs.org Denver, Colo. August 28–September 1 ChemInnovations 2011 Conference and Exhibition, co-located with ISA’s Houston Section Annual Conference & Exhibition, the Texas A&M Turbomachinery…
Plant Watch Outotec to deliver the world’s largest iron-ore pelletizing plant in Brazil June 30, 2011— Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed to deliver an iron-ore pelletizing plant to Samarco Mineração S.A. The new plant will be installed at…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Purac (www.purac.com), a subsidiary of CSM N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.csmglobal.com), today announce the start of negotiations to form a joint venture (JV) for the production of bio-based succinic acid. The companies have been…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will consolidate the production of polyacrylamide (PAM) beads into its Bradford, U.K. facility, where the company operates a backward-integrated production plant with worldwide supply capability. Significant investment will be made to increase and upgrade the…
The technology company The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) has been commissioned to build and operate two large air-separation units (ASUs) to supply gases on site to the Chinese company Yantai Wanhua in Shandong (East China). The contract for the…
Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.de/energy) has received an order from China to deliver eight coal gasifiers. The units, with a thermal rating of 500 megawatts each, are for a coal gasification plant in Yili City in Xinjiang province. The plant…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is strengthening its commitment to serve the growing Chinese market with premium products by making a number of local investments totaling more than €40 million. “China remains one of the fastest growing markets in Asia…
Solvay S.A. announced today that it has the intention to create a 50/50 joint venture with Sadara Chemical Co. (itself a planned joint venture of Saudi Arabian Oil Co. and The Dow Chemical Co.) for the construction and operation of…