Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has initiated its third joint research and development (R&D) project with the State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering of Tianjin University (China; www.tju.edu.cn/english) on advanced chemical-engineering sciences. This project, which focuses on distillation and…
The Air Liquide Group (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed long-term agreement with Severstal, Russia’s leading steel producer. Air Liquide will supply oxygen, nitrogen and argon to Severstal’s new steel plant in Balakovo, located in the region of Saratov (Volga Federal…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has acquired the Vertical Pressure Filter (VPF) technology and its intellectual property rights from Australian Process Technology Pty Ltd (North Fremantle, Australia), a filters supplier for the alumina refining industry. The parties have agreed not…
Bechtel (Frederick, Md.; www.bechtel.com), SolFocus, Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.; www.solfocus.com) and developer Sol Orchard announced today that a 1-MW high concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) power plant was completed for Nichols Farms, a pistachio farm in Hanford, Calif. The solar plant, which…
BASF to explore new production investment in Brazil March 10, 2011 — BASF is exploring opportunities for a new investment in Brazil for the production of acrylic acid, butyl acrylate and superabsorbent polymers (SAP). The feasibility study will be completed…
Use this visual mapping method to assess functional qualifications A variety of factors — including a shift in the median age of workers worldwide and the impending skills shortage due to attrition and early retirements — have created a need…
North America 2011 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting. Materials Research Soc. (Warrendale, Pa.). Phone: 724-779-2754; Web: mrs.org San Francisco, Calif. April 25–29 The 5th Annual Energy Efficiency Finance Forum. American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (Washington, D.C.). Phone: 704-341-2376;…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has started up a new facility to produce high-purity isobutene at its site in Antwerp (Belgium). The new plant, which involved investment of tens of millions euros, can produce up to 110,000 metric tons…
Liebelt Bi Watson McLaughlin Smylie Uwe Liebelt becomes president of BASF’s Paper Chemicals Div. (Basel, Switzerland). The current president, Ehrenfried Baumgartner, is retiring. Alchimer S.A. (Massy, France), a provider of nanometric deposition technology for semiconductor and electronic applications, names Erik…
Sener Ingeniería y Sistemas, S.A. (Sener; Madrid, Spain;www.sener.es) has clinched several contracts for the design and supply of solar fields in Spain: the Aste 1A and Aste 1B, Termosolar Soluz Guzmán, Consol-Orellana and La Africana plants. With these five new…