Business & Economics
Linde Engineering Dresden purchases Choren’s Carbo-V-Technology
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 invests in new ASU in South Africa
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 invests in Indonesian engineering company
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,…
B&W to supply environmental control technology for Colorado power plant
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 sell advanced components business to FM Industries
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…
Current economic trends
Capital equipment prices, as reflected in the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI), decreased 0.53% from October to November. Decreases are typical during the third quarter. Meanwhile, the CPI Operating Rate, as reported from IHS Global Insight, increased 0.8% from November…
Calendar: February 2012 – June 2012
North America Biophysical Soc. 56th Annual Meeting. The Biophysical Soc. (Rockville, Md.). Phone: 240-290-5606; Web: biophysics.org/2012meeting San Diego, Calif. February 25–29 3rd Annual ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit. ARPA-E (Washington, D.C.). Phone: 512-697-8849; Web: arpa-e.energy.gov Washington, D.C. February 27–29 …
Prevalent plagiarism
One of the reasons that Chemical Engineering will have the honor of celebrating its 110th anniversary this year is its longstanding reputation for original, noteworthy and unbiased articles that cannot be found anywhere else. Our internal policies help protect the…
UOP’s Oleflex technology selected by Dow Chemical and more business news
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…
Harish Badami joins Celanese Corp. as president of Celanese India…
Badami Goodwin York Craighead Jacobs Harish Badami joins Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.) as president of Celanese India, based in Mumbai. Andy Goodwin is named president of the Bangkok-based Asian operations for Pöyry Oyj (Helsinki, Finland). Bruce York joins Endicott Biofuels…