NORTH AMERICA Hydraulic Institute 2010 Spring Meeting. Hydraulic Institute (HI; Parsipppany, N.J.). Phone: 973-267-9700; Web: pumps.org Fort Worth, Tex. June 9–12 Recycling Metals from Industrial Waste. Colorado School of Mines. (Golden, Colo.). Phone: 303-273-3321; Fax: 303-273-3314; Web: outreach.mines.edu/cont_ed/heavy.shtml Golden, Colo.…
Evonik plans to shut down polyethylene waxes production May 21, 2010 — Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) intends to shut down its production of polyethylene waxes in Heme, Germany at the end of December, 2010. This step was taken as…
Bonnett Van Winter Funchess Scoffin Forslund Walter Bonnett becomes vice-president of PSG marketing for Dover Corp.’s Pump Solutions Group (PSG; Redlands, Calif.). Christopher Pappas becomes president and CEO of Styron, a chemicals and plastics firm that was recently divested from…
Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark: www.novozymes.com), COFCO Ltd. (www.cofco.com/en) and Sinopec Corp. (both Beijing, China; english.sinopec.com) signed a Memorandum of Understanding covering the next steps towards commercialization of cellulosic biofuel in China. As part of the agreement, COFCO and Sinopec will build a…
A biomass-to-liquids (BTL) demonstration plant jointly operated by the Oxford Catalysts Group Plc. (Abingdon, U.K.; www.oxfordcatalysts.com) and the Portuguese incorporated holding company, SGC Energia (SGCE; www.sgc.pt), for the small-scale distributed production of biofuels has achieved some significant commissioning milestones. The…
Several economic reports out this week paint a largely positive picture for the recovery, but polyethylene production was down, according to the latest report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Arlington, Va.). Consumer confidence and personal incomes are generally on…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) has signed, together with ENDESA and the Spanish Foundation, Fundación Ciudad de la Energía (CIUDEN), a grant agreement with the European Commission (EC; Brussels, Belgium). The grant agreement stipulates the terms of €180 million…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today the successful start of commercial operation of a large-scale, 125-MWe (385-MWth), circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) boiler island delivered to Kaukaan Voima Oy, in Finland. Kaukaan Voima Oy is owned by Pohjolan Voima Oy…
Borouge (Abu Dhabi in the UAE; www. borouge.com), a joint-venture between the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), Borealis (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) and The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) formally signed a $1.075-billion contract for the construction of a 1.5…
Borouge, a joint-venture between the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. and Borealis has awarded three major Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contracts valued at approximately $2.6 billion for its Borouge 3 expansion project in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi, in the UAE. These…