Business & Economics
DSM Biologics plans biopharmaceutical manufacturing in Australia
DSM Biologics, a business unit of DSM Pharmaceutical Products (Parsippany, N.J.; www.dsmpharmaceuticalproducts.com) has signed a preliminary agreement to enter a partnership with the Australian Governments (Queensland State Government and the Commonwealth of Australia) to design, build and operate the first…
SABIC signs an agreement with Celanese for the construction of a polyacetal facility and other business news
Air Liquide plans four new oxygen units for China April 19, 2010 — Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed two contracts to supply four air separation units (ASUs). Air Liquide Hangzhou, the Engineering & Construction center in China, will…
Aker Solutions’ Vic Edwards reviews Facilities Planning
Could facilities planning become a new paradigm in chemical engineering? Engineering has long been enriched by applying science, mathematics and other fields to industrial pursuits. Chemical engineering began as an offshoot of industrial chemistry and mechanical engineering. Unit…
Michael Bellamy appointed general manager of GE Oil& Gas PII Pipeline Solutions….
Bellamy Quasey Hancook Johnson Hayes Michael Bellamy is appointed general manager of the PII Pipeline Solutions business of GE Oil & Gas (Northumberland, U.K.). Jim Quasey is named vice-president of global operations for Industrial Scientific Corp. (Pittsburgh, Pa.). Kim Holman…
Boliden acquires sulfuric acid plant from Kemira
Boliden AB (Stockholm, Sweden; www.boliden.com) has acquired Kemira’s sulfuric acid plant and business in Kokkola, Finland, effective as of 1st May 2010. The acquisition will enable Boliden to conduct its sulfuric-acid-manufacturing operations at Kokkola in-house, and thereby gain control over…
Global Chemical Industry Production Posts 0.5% Gain in March, ACC report says
Worldwide chemical industry production was up 0.5% in March, according to the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Arlington, Va.; www.americanchemistry.com). The gain is the 12th rise in the past 13 months, suggesting that the V-shaped recovery observed in other economic data…
Outotec acquires Edmeston
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has acquired all shares in Edmeston AB (Gothenburg Sweden; www.edmeston.com), a company specializing in sulfuric acid production equipment and systems. The transaction is subject to completion of confirmatory due diligence, and it is expected to…
A new material for 700°C power plants
Together with E.ON AG (Düsseldorf; www.eon.com) and Hitachi Power Europe (Duisburg, Germany; www.hitachi-power.com), ThyssenKrupp VDM (Werdohl, all Germany; www.thyssenkruppvdm.com) has laboratory-developed a new material that, subject to successful testing, will represent a major step towards the construction of advanced 700°C…
Neste Jacobs & Eesti Energia to build a shale-oil condensation unit in Estonia
Neste Jacobs Oy (Porvoo, Finland; www.nestejacobs.com) and Eesti Energia (Tallinn, Estonia; www.energia.ee) agreed on building a shale oil condensation unit in Estonia. Neste Jacobs was selected to act as engineering partner for a new shale-oil condensation unit in Estonia. Neste Jacobs and…
Plant-based glycol is the focus of Novozymes-Dacheng Group agreement
Novozymes A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark; www.novozymes.com) and Dacheng Group (Changchun, China) have announced an agreement that expands their cooperation in developing biomass-derived chemicals as replacements for petroleum-based chemicals. Specifically, the two companies will work together to industrialize production of glycol from…