Business & Economics
Uhde is expanding HKM’s coke oven plant
In late 2010 Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann GmbH (HKM; Duisburg-Huckingen www.hkm.de) awarded Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) a contract to build a second coke oven battery at its Duisburg Huckingen site as well as to expand the gas treatment unit and…
Toyo wins large-scale fertilizer-plant order in Indonesia
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) and PT Inti Karya Persada Teknik have jointly received a notice of bidding award for a fertilizer project from the state-owned Indonesian fertilizer company, PT Pupuk Kalimantan Timur (Kaltim). The plant will be…
Harper: Carbon fiber processing line for ORNL
Harper International (Buffalo, N.Y.; www.harperintl.com) has finalized a contract with the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for a full pilot scale carbon fiber process line valued at greater than $12 million. The line is a…
Evonik: New catalyst plant in Argentina
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is planning to build a new facility to produce catalysts for the manufacture of biodiesel in Argentina. Basic engineering for this plant, which will have capacity of over 60,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr),…
Dow and Binhua: MoU for new JV in China
The Dow Chemical Co. (Midlands, Mich.; www.dow.com) and Befar Group Co. (Binhua), today announced a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a new 50–50 joint venture (JV) to produce perchloroethylene (PCE), a key building block material for non-ozone depleting refrigerants used…
EJPC signs license agreement with DPT for world’s largest methanol plant
Egypt Japan Petrochemical Corp. S.A.E. (EJPC) and Davy Process Technology Ltd. (DPT; London; www.davyprotech.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Johnson Matthey Plc (JM), are pleased to announce the signature of a Methanol Operating License Agreement. EJPC is developing a world-scale,…
Keep shipments safe and weatherproof with this patented unit
Covered by a number of patents, the stretch hood method (photo) combines the advantages of shrink wrap and stretch wrap while avoiding the disadvantages of these traditional packaging methods. With the so-called biaxial stretch, the vertical expansion of the foil…
Foster Wheeler: Steam reformer for Russia
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by JSC Novo-Ufimsky Refinery, a subsidiary of Russian oil company Bashneft, for the engineering and material supply…
For light duty, use this power-driven stacker
This line of fully powered stackers has a lifting height of 62 in. and a capacity of 1,500 lb. The Power Stak Lite line of light-duty stackers (photo) features a narrow mast design and an offset control handle to improve…
This packaging system does two operations in one machine
This packaging machine does not use separate plastic bags to produce inliners for octatainers (orthogonal containers made of corrugated cardboard; photo). Instead, the plastic film for the inliners comes from a roll. The company's Stretch Hood cuts and seals the…