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Topsøe wins contract with PetroPeru

Haldor Topsøe (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) has signed a contract supplying technologies for three new plants with petroleum-oil refiner PetroPeru. The contract includes license and basic engineering of process design for the Talara refinery in Peru.  The Topsøe technologies are part…

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Outotec to deliver precious-metals plant in China

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with Baiyin Non Ferrous Group for the design and delivery of a new precious metals plant in Gansu Province, China. The contract value is approximately €6 million. Outotec's scope includes basic engineering,…

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Praxair starts up new plant in Costa Rica

Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has started up its new air-separation plant in San Jose, Costa Rica. In addition to meeting increasing demand for oxygen, nitrogen and argon from industrial and medical customers in Costa Rica, the new facility positions…

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KBR to license Veba Combi Cracker Technology

KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has signed a Collaboration Agreement with BP (www.bp.com) to promote, market, and execute licensing and engineering services for the slurry bed residue and coal upgrading Veba Combi Cracker (VCC) Technology. VCC Technology is a hydrogen addition…

ChemInnovations Conference & Exhibition Announced

Chemical Engineering, the leading global publication for the chemical process industries (CPI), has announced that the ChemInnovations Conference & Exhibition, which will be the only major CPI show in North America in 2010, will take place October 19–21 at Reliant…

Lonza team honored for microreactor technology

The Swiss Chemical Society (SCG; Bern; www.swiss-chem-soc.ch) has awarded the 2010 Sandmeyer Prize for industrial chemistry to a team of four from Lonza (Basel; www.lonzagroup.com). The groundbreaking work in the field of microreactors and continuous flow processes was recommended and…

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Lanxess builds new plant in Germany

Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is building a new chemical plant at its site in Bitterfeld, Germany. This marks the specialty chemicals group’s move into a new segment of the water treatment business.  The company is investing a total of…

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Artisan and Aonix merge to become Atego

ArtisanSoftware Tools and Aonix have merged to create a new, stronger independent force in the mission- and safety-critical systems and software development tools market. The merged company is named Atego and headquartered in San Diego, Calif. (www.atego.com) Artisan Software Tools…

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Axens and Headwaters form DCL alliance 

Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) and Headwaters Inc. (South Jordan, Utah; www.headwaters.com) have signed an agreement to form a strategic alliance to provide a single-source solution for producing ultra-clean fuels by direct coal liquefaction (DCL) alone or in combination with refinery residues…

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Total and ConocoPhillips sanction Phase 2 of the Surmont Project

Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com ) and ConocoPhillips (Houston; www.conocophillips.com) announce the sanction of the Surmont Phase 2 SAGD (Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage) development in Canada. The project, slated to begin initial construction in 2010, will increase Surmont’s production capacity from…