Business & Economics
Spectris to acquire Omega Engineering
Spectris PLC (Egham, U.K.; www.spectris.com) announced this week that it has signed an agreement to acquire Omega Engineering Inc. (Stamford, Conn.; www.omega.com). Omega is a leading supplier of process measurement and control instrumentation across a broad range of categories,…
Fluor wins new polymers-plant contract in Saudi Arabia
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by SAPCo, a joint venture company being formulated between Saudi Acrylic Acid Co. (Riyadh; www.saharapcc.com) and Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com), for its Super…
World’s first H2- fueling station to be supplied from municipal wastewater
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) today officially opened its newest California hydrogen fueling station drawing its feedstock from a very novel and sustainable source. Air Products is pumping hydrogen into fuel cell vehicles that is generated from the municipal…
Ferrostaal reorganizes and reduces the size of its Executive Board
As part of the strategic reorientation of Ferrostaal AG (Essen, Germany; www.ferrostaal.com), a global provider of industrial services in plant construction and engineering, the company is streamlining its organization. The Executive Board will be reduced from five to four members.…
BASF increasing production capacity for copper and copper-chrome catalysts
BASF’s Catalyst Div. (Iselin, N.J.; www.basf.com) has announced a new round of capital investment projects to increase its production capacity and further enhance its global manufacturing operations for copper and copper-chrome catalysts. These investments are aimed at improving catalyst-manufacturing efficiency…
Start up of PET MTR plant in Kaliningrad, Russia
In the spring of 2011 Uhde Inventa-Fischer (Domat/Ems, Switzerland; www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) and Alco-Naphtha JSC started up the first state-of-the-art, energy-efficient MTR plant for the production of high-quality PET (polyethylene terephthalate) to be built on European soil. The production plant is located…
SNC-Lavalin wins EPCM contract for aluminum smelter in Abu Dhabi
SNC-Lavalin, Inc. (Montreal, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded an engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) services contract by Emirates Aluminum Company Ltd. PJSC (EMAL) for Phase ll of its smelter in Al Taweelah, in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. The…
KBR: FGD and SCR equipment for large coal-fired power plant in the U.S.
KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract by Southern Co. (Atlanta, Ga.; www.southernco.com) for the installation of flue gas desulfurization (FGD) and selective catalytic reduction (SCR) equipment, related ductwork, and auxiliaries at two 880,000-kW coal-fired units at Georgia Power’s…
NDC Infrared acquires IRM Group
NDC Infrared Engineering (Irwindale, Calif.; www.ndcinfrared.com), a leading manufacturer of web gauging equipment for the plastics, rubber, nonwoven and extrusion-coated businesses, has acquired the IRM Group (Alleur, Belgium; www.irmgroup.info), a leading manufacturer of high-technology measuring systems for the metals industries.IRM will become…
U.S. wholesale chemical sales up in June, but global recession fears rise, ACC report says
Wholesale sales of chemical rose by 2.3% in June, following a 0.9% decline in May, the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) says in its most recent Weekly Chemical and Economic Trends report. Compared to a year ago, wholesale…