Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with RB Met Engineering (Pty) Ltd. and Xstrata Merafe PSV for the delivery of chromite sintering technology to Xstrata Merafe’s ferrochrome plant located in Rustenburg in South Africa. The contract value is…
BASF Corporation's catalyst division (Iselin, N.J., www.catalysts.basf.com) has initiated several capital investment projects to enhance the company's manufacturing operations for copper-chrome catalysts at its production sites in Erie, Pa. and Elyria, Ohio. The multimillion-dollar investments are aimed at re-engineering, retrofitting…
INEOS Group (ineos.com) has today entered into a binding agreement for the sale of its Global Films business (www.ineosfilms.com) to Bilcare AG (www.bilcare.com), one of the world’s leading providers of research led packaging to the global pharmaceuticals industry, for approximately…
AdvanceBio Systems LLC (Cincinnati, Ohio) has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, Colo.) to provide a Biomass Pretreatment Reactor System for its Integrated Biorefinery Research Facility. The equipment will be…
ACS 239th Annual Meeting and Exposition. American Chemical Society Meetings (Washington, D.C.). Phone: 800-227-5558; Web: acs.org Boston, Mass. Aug. 22–26 International Acid Gas Injection Symposium. Sphere Technology Connection Ltd. (Calgary, Alta.). Phone: 403-619-6215; Fax: 888-984-4941; Web: agis2010.spheretechconnect.com Calgary, Alta., Canada…
Siemens’ technology to be used for IGCC project in the U.S. July 19, 2010 — Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com) has been awarded a front-end engineering design contract by Summit Texas Clean Energy LLC to provide coal gasification and power…
Nakata Hertle Moncrief Stefano Glaser Masaaki Nakata joins Malvern Instruments Ltd. (Malvern, U.K.) as regional sales manager for process systems for Japan and the Asia-Pacific region. Engineering and environmental consulting firm GHD (Sydney, Australia) promotes Chris Hertle to global market…
JGC Corp. (Yokohama; www.jgc.co.jp), INPEX Corp. (Tokyo, both Japan; www.inpex.co.jp) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) have entered into an agreement to jointly carry out demonstration tests on a new technology for effectively capturing and recovering CO2 contained in natural…
The U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) grew in the second quarter of 2010, but the pace was the slowest in a year, according to the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Trends report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Arlington, Va.;…
Xebec Adsorption Inc. (Xebec; Montreal, Canada; www.xebecinc.com) has signed a significant contract to build a complete biogas upgrading plant for Terasen Gas, a major energy utility in western Canada. "Xebec strives to establish strategic partnerships with leading Canadian utilities to move…