The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) is set to construct a large, state-of-the-art air separation unit (ASU) for ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel corporation, at ArcelorMittal’s Temirtau site in Kazakhstan. This plant will be Kazakhstan’s first industrial-scale development with a…
Total S.A. (Paris. France; www.total.com) announces the inauguration of the world’s largest olefin cracker based on ethane in Ras Laffan, Qatar. With a production capacity of 1.3 million tons of ethylene per year, the Ras Laffan Olefin Cracker (RLOC) will feed…
Industrial gases specialist Messer Group GmbH (Sulzbach/Frankfurt, Germany; www.messergroup.com) has signed a contract that secures access to a CO2 source in the southern Vietnamese province of Binh Phuoc. Messer will receive 200 metric tons (m.t.) of raw carbon dioxide per…
DSM Biologics, a business unit of DSM Pharmaceutical Products (Parsippany, N.J.; www.dsmpharmaceuticalproducts.com) has signed a preliminary agreement to enter a partnership with the Australian Governments (Queensland State Government and the Commonwealth of Australia) to design, build and operate the first…
Could facilities planning become a new paradigm in chemical engineering? Engineering has long been enriched by applying science, mathematics and other fields to industrial pursuits. Chemical engineering began as an offshoot of industrial chemistry and mechanical engineering. Unit…
Bellamy Quasey Hancook Johnson Hayes Michael Bellamy is appointed general manager of the PII Pipeline Solutions business of GE Oil & Gas (Northumberland, U.K.). Jim Quasey is named vice-president of global operations for Industrial Scientific Corp. (Pittsburgh, Pa.). Kim Holman…
Air Liquide plans four new oxygen units for China April 19, 2010 — Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed two contracts to supply four air separation units (ASUs). Air Liquide Hangzhou, the Engineering & Construction center in China, will…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has acquired all shares in Edmeston AB (Gothenburg Sweden; www.edmeston.com), a company specializing in sulfuric acid production equipment and systems. The transaction is subject to completion of confirmatory due diligence, and it is expected to…
Together with E.ON AG (Düsseldorf; www.eon.com) and Hitachi Power Europe (Duisburg, Germany; www.hitachi-power.com), ThyssenKrupp VDM (Werdohl, all Germany; www.thyssenkruppvdm.com) has laboratory-developed a new material that, subject to successful testing, will represent a major step towards the construction of advanced 700°C…
Boliden AB (Stockholm, Sweden; www.boliden.com) has acquired Kemira’s sulfuric acid plant and business in Kokkola, Finland, effective as of 1st May 2010. The acquisition will enable Boliden to conduct its sulfuric-acid-manufacturing operations at Kokkola in-house, and thereby gain control over…