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Beckhoff acquires Hayes Control Systems

Beckhoff Automation GmbH (Verl, Germany; www.beckhoff.com) has been present in Great Britain since 1994 – represented exclusively and successfully by Hayes Control Systems. In order to further expand Beckhoff’s commitment in the British market, Hayes Control Systems has now been taken…

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BPCL selects Axens’ Octanizing technology

Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (BPCL; www.bharatpetroleum.com) has selected Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) to provide the technology licenses for a naphtha hydrotreater and a continuous catalytic regeneration (CCR) reformer (Octanizing) at its Mumbai Refinery. The 900,000 ton/yr CCR reformer is being designed…

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ABB wins $20-million metals order in China

ABB (www.abb.com) has won a $20 million order from Shandong Nanshan Aluminum to deliver electrical and automation solutions and engineering services for its new three-stand Tandem Cold Mill in Longkou, China. The new mill will have an annual production capacity…

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LyondellBasell to license olefins recover-and-conversion technologies

LyondellBasell Industries (Frankfurt, Germany; www.lyondellbasell.com) has expanded its licensing portfolio of olefin recovery and conversion technologies to create a comprehensive offering of processes under the new trademark Trans4m. Trans4m process technologies offer tailored solutions for C4 and higher olefin separation process…

Global Chemistry Production Continues Gain, weekly ACC Report Finds

Production from the global chemical industry rose 0.2% in February, the 11th gain in the past 12 months, the American Chemistry Council reports in its March 26 edition of Weekly Chemistry and Economic Trends. The ACC report states that the…

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Uhde and Praxair sign global H2 alliance agreement

In December 2009, Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) and its daughter firm Uhde Corporation of America (Bridgeville, Pa.), signed a global hydrogen alliance agreement with the Praxair, Inc. (Tonawanda, N.Y.; www.praxair.com). The arrangement effectively covers the areas of steam-reformer-based hydrogen…

Chemical industry inventories lean amid improved economic prospects, ACC report says

The overall economic outlook for the first quarter of 2010 has improved over the end of 2009, although various forces are still constraining recovery, the American Chemistry Council says in a March 18 report on Q1 economics. The 1st Quarter…

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HRST refines performance analysis & modeling by integrating ANSYS software

HRST, Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.; www.hrstinc.com) has added to their capabilities in performance analysis and modeling by integrating ANSYS software into the firm’s extensive knowledge of HRSG technologies. “The energy environment has changed in recent years,” Amy Sieben, HRST’s Analysis…

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FWC: EPCm contract for Sasol’s Wax Expansion Project

Foster Wheeler AG (FWC; Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCm) contract by Sasol for its Fischer-Tropsch Wax Expansion Project to be located at Sasolburg,…