A consortium formed by Evonik Degussa GmbH, Cabot Corp., Columbian Chemicals Co., Timcal Belgium S.A., Sid Richardson Carbon & Energy Co., Continental Carbon Co., and Cancarb Ltd. has successfully submitted the REACH dossier for carbon black to the European Chemicals…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has officially launched a new multilateral collaboration to develop a groundbreaking, innovative technology for the production of synthetic rubber. The new technology will use fewer resources and is therefore considerably more energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly than…
Borouge (Abu Dhabi; www.borouge.com), a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, has awarded a contract worth $1.075 billion to The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com), a world leading gases and engineering company, to build another 1.5 million tonnes…
Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) will supply ammonia synthesis technology for the world’s largest ammonia plant. The plant will produce more than 3,500 tonnes of ammonia per day. Topsøe has signed a contract for the supply of ammonia synthesis…
Novasep (Pompey, France: www.novasep.com), a producer of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and purification technologies for the life science industries, has announced the acquisition of Henogen, a contract manufacturing organization offering bioprocess development and manufacturing services from the cell bank to…
On Sunday morning before the start of Achema 2009 (May 11–15; Frankfurt, Germay) — organizers of the world’s largest exhibition and congress on chemical engineering and biotechnology, Dechema e.V. (Frankfurt; www.dechema.de), as well as industry experts participating in the traditional…
Plant Watch PET resin capacity expands in Saudi Arabia June 15, 2009 — Uhde Inventa-Fischer GmbH (Berlin, Germany) has entered into a contract with the Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) to provide the technology license and the basic engineering for…
Tie-in opportunities are few and far between. These rules of thumb will help make sure everything and everyone line up in time A majority of capital projects today are either debottlenecks or revamps that are intended to increase capacity, squeeze…
Gustavsson. Lepoutre Dudas Cappellino Magnarini Jonas Gustavsson becomes president of the Kanthal heating systems product line of Sandvik Materials Technology (Sandviken, Sweden). GE Water (Vista, Calif.) appoints Frederick Liberatore global director of process separations. Thomas Walter and Charles Prisco become…
Teijin Ltd. (Tokyo; www.teijin.co.jp) announced today that it had transferred its 50% ownership in NatureWorks LLC back to Cargill and terminated the joint-venture (JV) contract with Cargill regarding NatureWorks as of June 30. NatureWorks, established in 1997 and operated as…