Business & Economics
Beckhoff acquires Hayes Control Systems
Beckhoff Automation GmbH (Verl, Germany; www.beckhoff.com) has been present in Great Britain since 1994 – represented exclusively and successfully by Hayes Control Systems. In order to further expand Beckhoff’s commitment in the British market, Hayes Control Systems has now been taken…
BPCL selects Axens’ Octanizing technology
Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (BPCL; www.bharatpetroleum.com) has selected Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) to provide the technology licenses for a naphtha hydrotreater and a continuous catalytic regeneration (CCR) reformer (Octanizing) at its Mumbai Refinery. The 900,000 ton/yr CCR reformer is being designed…
ABB wins $20-million metals order in China
ABB (www.abb.com) has won a $20 million order from Shandong Nanshan Aluminum to deliver electrical and automation solutions and engineering services for its new three-stand Tandem Cold Mill in Longkou, China. The new mill will have an annual production capacity…
LyondellBasell to license olefins recover-and-conversion technologies
LyondellBasell Industries (Frankfurt, Germany; www.lyondellbasell.com) has expanded its licensing portfolio of olefin recovery and conversion technologies to create a comprehensive offering of processes under the new trademark Trans4m. Trans4m process technologies offer tailored solutions for C4 and higher olefin separation process…
Global Chemistry Production Continues Gain, weekly ACC Report Finds
Production from the global chemical industry rose 0.2% in February, the 11th gain in the past 12 months, the American Chemistry Council reports in its March 26 edition of Weekly Chemistry and Economic Trends. The ACC report states that the…
Uhde and Praxair sign global H2 alliance agreement
In December 2009, Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) and its daughter firm Uhde Corporation of America (Bridgeville, Pa.), signed a global hydrogen alliance agreement with the Praxair, Inc. (Tonawanda, N.Y.; www.praxair.com). The arrangement effectively covers the areas of steam-reformer-based hydrogen…
Chemical industry inventories lean amid improved economic prospects, ACC report says
The overall economic outlook for the first quarter of 2010 has improved over the end of 2009, although various forces are still constraining recovery, the American Chemistry Council says in a March 18 report on Q1 economics. The 1st Quarter…
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Outotec to deliver a copper smelter in China
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has been awarded a contract by Tongling Non-Ferrous Metals Group for the design and delivery of a new copper smelter to be built in Jinchang in Anhui province, China. The contract value is approximately €15 million.…
Safety performance indicators to assist major hazard management
The Chemical Business Association (CBA; Crewe, U.K.; www.chemical.org.uk) and the U.K. Warehouse Association (UKWA; London; www.ukwa.org.uk) have today, 16th March 2010, launched guidance for their respective member companies designed to assist in achieving higher levels of major hazard management. Major…