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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Lummus Technology, a CB&I company (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $40 million by CTCI Corp. (Taipei; www.ctci.com.tw) for the material supply of eight cracking heaters. The heaters, with a capacity of 720,000 metric…
0 0 0 GEA Group AG (Bochum, Germany; ) has won a milestone order from the Zheiiang Hisun Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (Taizhou Zheiiang, China) for the supply of pharmaceutical freeze dryers with automatic load and unload systems (ALUS). The order…