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Larox to establish a subsidiary in India

0 0 0 Larox Corp. (Lappeenranta, Finland; www.larox.com) will establish a subsidiary in India with the aim of increasing the company’s market share in the growing Indian market. The new subsidiary will be responsible both for Larox’s aftermarket services and filter…

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SABIC and Mitsubishi Rayon form a joint venture … and more business news

Plant Watch Cement plant expansion in the Ukraine decreases environmental emissions August 20, 2009 — ABB Switzerland Ltd. (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) has won an order from international building materials group CRH to deliver electrical and automation equipment for Podilsky Cement’s…

Mark Henning becomes general manager for Dow Microbial Control and more…

Coote Roscoe VanDyke Reichert Welp Arthur D. Little (London) appoints Joseph L. Coote as global energy and chemicals practice leader. Aaron Cunningham is named marketing specialist at Oseco (Broken Arrow, Okla.). Choren Industries (Freiberg, Germany) appoints Marcell Ulrichs CEO. Peter…

Honoring the man behind the scenes

Honoring the man behind the scenes Over one’s career, colleagues frequently come and go — sometimes without much pomp or circumstance marking their departures. In fact, an employee with five or more years working with a single company has come…

Clariant sells specialty silicones business

Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) has sold its specialty silicones business, including its Gainesville Fla. facility, to SiVance LLC, an affiliate of New York-based GenNx360 Capital Partners. GenNx360 is a private equity firm focused on industrial business-to-business companies. Financial terms of…

Pepperl+Fuchs & R. Stahl to support DART technology

Pepperl+Fuchs GmbH (Mannheim; www.pepperl-fuchs.com) and R. Stahl Schaltgeräte GmbH (Waldenburg, both Germany; www.stahl.de) have signed a license agreement for using the new DART (dynamic arc recognition and termination) technology. The open DART licensing model allows the unlimited use of this patented…

Ansys launches Immersed Boundary module

0 0 0 Ansys, Inc. (Canonsburg, Pa.; www.ansys.com) today announced the availability of the Immersed Boundary module for ANSYS FLUENT 12.0 software. Jointly developed by Ansys and long-time partner Cascade Technologies Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.; , the module dramatically reduces…

Mustang will acquire majority interest in Al-Hejailan

Mustang International (Houston; www.mustangeng.com) will acquire a majority interest in the Saudi Arabian oil and gas consulting firm, Al-Hejailan Consulting, through a joint venture. Al-Hejailan will retain the remaining interest. When the deal is finalized later this year, the joint…

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KBR awarded contract for refinery in Angola

0 0 0 KBR (Houston, Tex.; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract by Sonangol, E.P. to provide license and engineering services for grassroots fluid-catalytic-cracking (FCC) and hydroprocessing technologies for the Sonaref Refinery to be located in Lobito, Angola. KBR will…

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IMD acquires a new source for Omega-3 FAs

0 0 0 InterMed Discovery GmbH (IMD; Dortmund, Germany; www.intermed-discovery.com), has acquired of unique microbial Omega-3 fatty acid (FA) production strains and related know-how from the University of Saarland. This innovative microbial source has the potential to produce Omega-3 more…