Business & Economics
BASF: New plant for sodium methylate
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) intends to build an additional production plant for sodium methylate in South America. Argentina is the planned location for the second plant with an annual capacity of about 60,000 metric tons. Thus, BASF wants to…
Outotec: Effluent-treatment plant for Codelco
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with the main copper producer in the world, Chilean Codelco for the design and delivery of an effluent treatment plant for Codelco's new Mina Ministro Hales project close to Calama, Chile.…
ThyssenKrupp: Smart energy-efficiency program has saved around €45 million since 2009
Last year ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG (Duisburg, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-steel-europe.com) launched a new energy efficiency program to further reduce energy costs at all its production locations. The results of the saving measures are impressive. The potential identified so far at the…
Bentley acquires SACS software for offshore structure analysis
Bentley Systems, Inc. (Exton, Pa., www.bentley.com) announced today that it has acquired the SACS business from Engineering Dynamics, Inc. SACS is an integrated finite-element, structural-analysis suite of programs that provides for the design, fabrication, installation, operations and maintenance of offshore…
CB&I: FEED contract for Sohar Refinery in Oman
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract valued in excess of $40 million by the Oman Refineries and Petrochemical Co. for the front end engineering and design (FEED) and project management services for the Sohar Refinery Expansion…
Chemical patents book reviewed by attorney Daniel Miller
This book examines global patent law as it affects the chemical, biological and pharmaceutical industries. Rather than taking a legal case-study approach, it provides a practical discussion of everyday issues and decisions faced by global patent practitioners in these complex…
Lanxess buys Syngenta’s Material Protection business
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has agreed to acquire the Material Protection business of Syngenta AG (Basel, Switzerland; www.syngenta.com). As a result, the German specialty chemicals company will become one of the leading suppliers of biocides for construction materials. The…
BASF to sell fertilizer activities
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) plans to sell major parts of its fertilizers activities. This comprises production plants in Antwerp, Belgium and BASF’s 50% share of the joint venture PEC-Rhin in Ottmarsheim, France. The activities have a total annual capacity…
NREL’s Biorefinery Research Facility Phase two construction underway
The Dept. of Energy's (Washington, D.C.; www.energy.gov) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL; Golden, Colo.; www.nrel.gov) has completed construction on phase one and entered phase two of an Integrated Biorefinery Research Facility (IBRF) — a place for NREL and industry to…
GE completes $3-billion acquisition of Dresser, Inc. and more business news
Genzyme to build additional biologics manufacturing plant in Belgium January 22, 2011 — Genzyme Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.; www.genzyme.com) plans to build an additional manufacturing plant in Geel, Belgium, to support the longterm growth of Alglucosidase alfa, known as Lumizyme in…