Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has brought forward its plans to build a new butyl rubber facility in Singapore. The company will hold a groundbreaking ceremony in May, 2010, and production is expected to start in the first quarter of…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Linde-KCA-Dresden GmbH (LKCA; Dresden, Germany), a Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) subsidiary, will jointly market licenses and plants for the capture of carbon dioxide from fluegases in the future. The companies today signed the…
After 18 months of construction, the new plant expansion for BASF’s (www.basf.com) chelating agent Trilon M has now been brought on stream at the BASF site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The move strengthens the company’s position as one of the world's…
Hillenbrand, Inc. ( Batesville, Ind.; www.HillenbrandInc.com) and K-Tron International, Inc. (Pitman, N.J.; www.ktroninternational.com) have signed a definitive merger agreement providing for Hillenbrand’s acquisition of K-Tron for $150 per share in cash. The boards of directors of both companies have unanimously…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) will receive a US$25 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, D.C.; www.energy.gov) to construct a demonstration plant for converting cellulosic biomass to transportation fuels. Scheduled to begin operations in 2014, the…
Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark; www.novozymes.com) has been awarded an Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credit worth US$28.4 million from the U.S. federal government to further construction of a new enzyme manufacturing facility in Blair, Neb. The tax credit becomes available in…
Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) has been awarded an engineering and procurement contract for the construction of a hydrochloric acid electrolysis plant by Yantai Juli Isocyanate Co. Ltd., a Chinese manufacturer of polyurethane. The plant, with a production capacity of…
Solvay SA (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) says it has recently closed the sale to its Thai affiliate Vinythai of all shares in Solvay Biochemical Thailand for a total value of €7 million. This subsidiary of Solvay is now continuing the development…
Synthetic heat transfer fluid from Solutia Inc. (St. Louis, Mo.; www.solutia.com) will be used at Solnova 4, a new 50-MW concentrating solar power plant in Sevilla, Spain. The Solnova 4 power plant is managed by Abener Energia SA (Sevilla, Spain; www.abener.es), and is…
Intergraph (Atlanta, Ga.; www.intergraph.com) has acquired COADE Holdings Inc. (Houston; www.coade.com), provider of CAESAR II, PV Elite and TANK products, the industry’s most widely used software for pipe stress, pressure vessel and storage tank analysis, as well as its popular…