Despite mixed reports for the wider economy last week, business indicators for basic and specialty chemicals were largely positive, according to data assembled by the American Chemistry Council (ACC). The most recent ACC Economics and Statistics report points out that…
An online database developed by a research team from Parker Centre (Karawara, Western Australia; www.parkercentre.com.au) and CSIRO Light Metals Flagship (Clayton, Australia; www.csiro.au/org/LightMetals) has for the first time provided industry, government, researchers and environmental groups with a one-stop, searchable resource…
Today the European Commission approved Amflora, BASF’s genetically-optimized starch potato, for commercial application in Europe. The potato can now be used for the production of industrial starch. “After waiting for more than 13 years, we are delighted that the European…
Vanhove Haws Corbin Wareheim Salinas Andre Vanhove is promoted to global HPI product applications leader for GE Water (Herentals, Belgium). Lawrence Sloan becomes president and CEO of the Society of Chemical Manufacturers and Affiliates (SOCMA; Washington, D.C.). Haws Corp. (Sparks,…
The 2010 Interphex Conference and Exhibition will be held April 20–22 in the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York. Billed as North America’s largest event for the biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry, the show is sponsored by the International Society for…
KBR to provide licensing of its Purifer Ammonia technology February 19, 2010 — KBR (Houston; http://www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract by Matix Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd. (MFCL) — a Matix Group Co. owned by the Kanoria family in India…
Citizen Engineer: A Handbook for Socially Responsible Engineering. By David Douglas, Greg Papadopoulos and John Boutelle. Prentice Hall, One Lake Street, Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Web: http://www.prenhall.com. 2009. 292 pages. $27.00. Reviewed by Arthur Schwartz, National Society of Professional…
Chemical Engineering has recently announced the launch of ChemInnovations 2010 (http://www.cpievent.com), a new conference and exhibition for the chemical process industries (CPI) to be held October 19–21 at Reliant Park (Houston), in partnership with TradeFair Group (Houston, http://www.tradefairgroup.com). The event…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with Codelco for the design and delivery of a copper-concentrate-roasting plant, gas-cleaning system and sulfuric-acid plant for Codelco’s new Mina Ministro Hales mine near Calama, Northern Chile. The contract price is…
Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany; www.merck.de) Millipore Corp.; Billerica, Mass.; www.millipore.com) have announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Merck KGaA will acquire all outstanding shares of common stock of Millipore, for $107 per share in cash, or…