Lonza (Basel, Switzerland; www.lonza.com) announced today its expansion of capacities for Carnipure and Carniking, L-Carnitine products belonging to Lonza’s Nutrition business within Life Science Ingredients. The expansion is in line with Lonza’s long-term strategy for nutrition ingredients and will support the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has been awarded a contract by Tongling Non-Ferrous Metals Group for the design and delivery of a new copper smelter to be built in Jinchang in Anhui province, China. The contract value is approximately €15 million.…