PLANT WATCH Construction starts on new helium plant in U.S. October 13, 2010 — Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) and Matheson (www.mathesongas.com), a member of the Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp. (TNSC) group, have announced that onsite…
Guertin Venarge Pace Löbbert Steve Rose becomes engineering manager at EagleBurgmann USA (Houston), manufacturer of seals, packing and expansion joints. Applied Manufacturing Technologies (Orion, Mich.), supplier of automation design, engineering and consulting, names Edward Turley control department manager. Specialty chemicals company…
Kiri Holding Singapore Pvt. Ltd., owner of DyStar Colours Distribution GmbH and DyStar Colours Deutschland GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany; www.dyestar.com), has acquired all the DyStar companies in the U.S. and Canada. The deal will take effect on October 29th, 2010. DyStar…
Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard, the Netherlands; www.stamicarbon.com), the licensing and IP Center of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (www.mairetecnimont.it), has signed a license agreement with Tierra del Fuego Energia Y Quimica S.A., an Argentina based company controlled by shareholders from China. The agreement…
Specialty chemicals company Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is to expand annual production capacity at its Dormagen, Germany, site for its ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (EVM) line sold under the product brands Levapren and Levamelt by 30% to 15,000 metric tons.…
GEA Group AG (Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com) is planning to build a separator production facility in Wuqing, China. Production is scheduled to start in 2011. The site, which is located immediately next to an existing GEA Heat Exchangers Segment production plant,…
In the Chinese province Shandong, a coal-fired power plant will be putting into operation the first industrial-scale plant worldwide for CO2 storage by algae. Within the framework of this project, GEA Westfalia Separator Group (Oelde, Germany; www.westfalia-separator.com) has been awarded…
Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. (Bolingbrook, Ill.; www.elevance.com) has entered into a joint development agreement with Stepan Co. (Northfield, Ill.), to evaluate and commercialize novel surfactants, antimicrobials and polyurethane polyols based on Elevance’s specialty feedstocks, including 9-decenoic ester and C18 di-basic…
Brooks Instrument (Hatfield, Penn.; www.brooksinstrument.com) has received important CSA and CRN approvals for the Model 810 magnetic level gage and associated transmitters and switches. These approvals verify Brooks’ compliance with international standards that users value. CSA International, a provider of…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) started a new production unit for high-quality, black iron-oxide pigments at its site in Jinshan, Shanghai. The produced color shades are the most advanced bluish type black pigments in the industry. With the annual capacity…