Business & Economics
Axens to acquire activated alumina business
Axens (Rueil Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) has signed an Asset Sale Agreement (ASA) with Canada-based Rio Tinto Alcan regarding the sale by Rio Tinto Alcan of its activated alumina business in Brockville, Ontario, Canada. “Acquisition of Rio Tinto Alcan's Brockville will…
Outotec: Chromite sintering tech. for South Africa
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with RB Met Engineering (Pty) Ltd. and Xstrata Merafe PSV for the delivery of chromite sintering technology to Xstrata Merafe’s ferrochrome plant located in Rustenburg in South Africa. The contract value is…
BASF begins upgrade of North American catalyst manufacturing operations
BASF Corporation's catalyst division (Iselin, N.J., www.catalysts.basf.com) has initiated several capital investment projects to enhance the company's manufacturing operations for copper-chrome catalysts at its production sites in Erie, Pa. and Elyria, Ohio. The multimillion-dollar investments are aimed at re-engineering, retrofitting…
Bilcare to acquire INEOS’ Global Films business
INEOS Group (ineos.com) has today entered into a binding agreement for the sale of its Global Films business (www.ineosfilms.com) to Bilcare AG (www.bilcare.com), one of the world’s leading providers of research led packaging to the global pharmaceuticals industry, for approximately…
AdvanceBio Systems wins DOE contract to supply equipment for biomass pretreatment
AdvanceBio Systems LLC (Cincinnati, Ohio) has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, Colo.) to provide a Biomass Pretreatment Reactor System for its Integrated Biorefinery Research Facility. The equipment will be…
Calendar August to November 2010
ACS 239th Annual Meeting and Exposition. American Chemical Society Meetings (Washington, D.C.). Phone: 800-227-5558; Web: acs.org Boston, Mass. Aug. 22–26 International Acid Gas Injection Symposium. Sphere Technology Connection Ltd. (Calgary, Alta.). Phone: 403-619-6215; Fax: 888-984-4941; Web: agis2010.spheretechconnect.com Calgary, Alta., Canada…
Siemens’ technology to be used for IGCC project in the U.S. and more business news
Siemens’ technology to be used for IGCC project in the U.S. July 19, 2010 — Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com) has been awarded a front-end engineering design contract by Summit Texas Clean Energy LLC to provide coal gasification and power…
Masaaki Nakata joins Malvern Instruments…
Nakata Hertle Moncrief Stefano Glaser Masaaki Nakata joins Malvern Instruments Ltd. (Malvern, U.K.) as regional sales manager for process systems for Japan and the Asia-Pacific region. Engineering and environmental consulting firm GHD (Sydney, Australia) promotes Chris Hertle to global market…
Demonstration of new CO2 capture technology
JGC Corp. (Yokohama; www.jgc.co.jp), INPEX Corp. (Tokyo, both Japan; www.inpex.co.jp) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) have entered into an agreement to jointly carry out demonstration tests on a new technology for effectively capturing and recovering CO2 contained in natural…
GDP growth slowed in 2nd Qtr.; trend similar in chemical industry, ACC report says
The U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) grew in the second quarter of 2010, but the pace was the slowest in a year, according to the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Trends report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Arlington, Va.;…