Business & Economics
UNPZ selects CDTech for gasoline desulfurization
Catalytic Distillation Technologies (CDTech; Pasedena, Tex.; www.cdtech.com) has been awarded a contract by OAO UNPZ Ufa Refinery for the license and basic engineering of a fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) gasoline hydrodesulfurization unit in the Russian Federation. The FCC unit is designed…
BTS & University of Erlangen-Nürnberg cooperation
Bayer Technology Services GmbH (BTS; Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayertechnology.com) and the Excellence Cluster for the Engineering of Advanced Materials — Hierarchical Structure Formation for Functional Devices (EAM) at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (www.eam.uni-erlangen.de) have signed a cooperation agreement. The focus is…
IFP becomes IFP New Energy
Incorporated into the recently enacted French law making a national commitment to the environment (known as the “Grenelle 2” law), IFP’s (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.ifp.fr) change of name to IFP New Energy has now come into effect. Put forward by the…
Plast-O-Matic unveils rooftop solar power system
Plast-O-Matic Valves Inc. (Cedar Grove, N.J.; www.plastomatic.com) today unveiled a solar power system installed on the roof of its 55,000 ft2 N.J. plant. Begun in 2008, the $2-million, 231-kW installation came as part of a pilot initiative administered by the…
Applied Analytics: New subsidiary in UAE
Applied Analytics, Inc. (AAI; Concord, Mass.; www.a-a-inc.com) and Aber Ahmed Equipment Est. (Sharjah, United Arab Emirates) have established Applied Analytics Middle East FZE. This new subsidiary expands and restructures AAI operations in the Gulf region, serving both as an administrative…
Süd-Chemie invests €60 million in LFP production
Süd-Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.sud-chemie.com) is investing approximately EUR 60 million in the production of lithium iron phosphate (LFP), a high performance energy storage material used in batteries for electric vehicle drives and other applications. On the new site of…
Evonik establishes independent carbon black company
Evonik Industries (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is reorganizing its carbon black activities. On July 1, Evonik Carbon Black GmbH was founded as a legally independent management company under the umbrella of Evonik Industries. Jack Clem is CEO and Rainer Wobbe will…
Chemical Safety Board renews call for hot work safety
In a recent statement, Dr. Rafael Moure-Eraso, chairperson and CEO of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB, Washington, D.C.; www.csb.gov) expressed that he was saddened by news of the death of a Colorado welder on July 8, while performing what…
Fuel Tech lands air-pollution-control orders
Fuel Tech, Inc. (Warrenville, Ill.; www.ftek.com) has received a number of air-pollution-control (APC) orders valued at $6.4 million. The largest of these orders, placed by a major U.S. power producer, for reducing oxides of nitrogen (NOx) reduction projects on three coal-fired…
Honors for a novel grinding process
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) bestowed its annual Alexander Wacker Innovation Award on Georg Pietsch and Michael Kerstan yesterday for the development of a novel grinding process for semiconductor wafers. Their innovation will allow ultra-flat silicon wafers to be manufactured…