The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) has increased its monopropylene glycol (MPG) capacity by 15%, an additional 35,000 ton/yr, in the Stade, Germany plant after completion of an advanced energy improvement and technology optimization project. “The investment in our…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has signed a purchase agreement to acquire the styrene catalysts business of CRI/Criterion (Houston; www.cricatalyst.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Shell. Financial details of the transaction are not being disclosed. CRI/Criterion is a leading global…
Pointwise, Inc. (Fort Worth, Tex.; www.pointwise.com) announces the latest release of its Pointwise computational fluid dynamics (CFD) meshing software with a wide ranging set of new tools. The surface meshing formulation of the T-Rex (anisotropic tetrahedral extrusion) hybrid-meshing algorithm, first…
ABB (Baden, Switzerland; www.abb.com) and Holcim Switzerland have agreed to install ABB’s newly developed heat recovery and electrical power production system at Holcim’s cement plant in Untervaz, Switzerland. ABB’s state-of-the-art solution is based on the ORC (organic Rankine cycle) technology…
Süd-Chemie AG (www.sud-chemie.com) and the Technical University of Munich (both Munich, Germany; www.tum.de) have formed a strategic alliance for catalysis research. In addition to basic research in the field of catalysis, a major aspect of this co-operation will be the…
Recognizing that oil exploration increasingly involves reservoir fluids at pressures and temperatures not previously encountered, Cambridge Viscosity (Medford, Mass.; www.cambridgeviscosity.com) and Schlumberger (www.slb.com) have formed a collaborative effort to define and develop viscosity standards appropriate for these new conditions. The…
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF; Bonn, Germany) has pledged €2.2 million in funds for a project by the BASF-supported Catalysis Research Laboratory (CaRLa; www.carla-hd.de) and hte AG (both Heidelberg, Germany; www.hte-company.de), a company in which BASF SE…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed a long-term contract with Tongmei Guangfa Chemical Industry Co., whose major shareholder is Datong Coal Mine Group Co. Under the terms of the agreement, Air Liquide will invest around €60 million in a…
SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal; Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded a contract by Bariq Mining to provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for the Jabal Sayid copper-concentrator project located in Saudi Arabia. The project has an estimated pre-production capital cost…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) will deliver sintering and ferrochrome smelting technology for the expansion of Outokumpu’s ferrochrome plant in Tornio, Finland. The new sintering plant and smelter will double Outokumpu’s ferrochrome production capacity. The contract value is approximately €45…