A worldwide shift to energy-efficient and low-carbon technologies for power generation and transportation offers enormous economic opportunities, but the investment community will not be able to realize economic growth without a credible, global climate-change-framework treaty, says an international group of…
Teijin Ltd. (Osaka and Tokyo; www.teijin.co.jp/english) announced that it has begun producing its proprietary heat-resistant bioplastic Biofront a demonstration plant in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture. The plant was originally Toyota Motor Corp.’s polylactic acid demonstration plant. Following the acquisition of the plant…
Cytec Engineered Materials (CEM; Tempe, Ariz.,), a business unit of Cytec Industries Inc. (www.cytec.com) and Mitsubishi Rayon Co. (MRC; Tokyo)) have entered into a strategic business collaboration to advance carbon-fiber-reinforced composite-materials technology. Both CEM and MRC will have the opportunity…
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) has inaugurated a research and development (R&D) center in Shanghai, taking the lead in the development of new high-tech industrial gas applications and solutions in China and the Asia Pacific region. It is also…
CST Industries, Inc. (Kansas City, Mo.; www.tanks.com), a global leader in the design, manufacture, and installation of storage tanks and covers, has acquired Temcor, Inc. (Gardena, Calif. Temcor designs, manufactures and erects clear span aluminum domes and specialty covers for…
GEA Group AG (Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com) received in its Energy and Farm Technology Segment orders worth EUR 46 million for efficient power plant cooling equipment from China. The orders consist of an Alex Air Cooled Condenser for the 2 x…
Specialty chemical company, Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) has announced its plans to build an ethoxylation plant in Dayabay, situated south of Guangzhou. The plant will be operational in early 2011 and will have a capacity of close to 50,000 metric…
The massive December 2007 explosion and fire at T2 Laboratories in Jacksonville, Fla. was caused by a runaway chemical reaction that likely resulted from an inadequate reactor cooling system, investigators from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB; www.csb.gov) said in…
Bartec GmbH (Bad Mergentheim, Germany; www.bartec.de) has taken over Vodec Ltd. (Nottingham, U.K.), a provider of communication and security systems. This acquisition is another milestone within the growth strategy of the internationally operating group of companies whose products and services…
Leading industrial companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to evaluate the setup of a hydrogen infrastructure in Germany so as to promote serial production of electric vehicles with fuel cells. This marks a major step towards the commercialization of…