Wireless: Small Investments Quick Returns Wednesday, February 25th Hilton Americas - Houston, TX 1:15 PM - 4:30 PM Room: Lanier Ballroom C In response to the current economic climate, in which operating companies are trying to cut costs and improve…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is systematically expanding its portfolio of specialty monomers and launching its new product, 2-propylheptyl acrylate (2-PHA), on the market. This is a new raw material and building block for functional polymers. 2-PHA belongs to the…
Invensys Process Systems (IPS; Plano, Tex.; www.ips.invensys.com) has released the newest version of SimSci-Esscor’s HEXTRAN software, a comprehensive heat transfer and pinch analysis tool. In addition to the numerous infrastructure upgrades and enhancements that address the emerging needs of clients…
Driven by current economic conditions and overcapacity for low-density polyethylene (LDPE) in the North American marketplace, The Dow Chemical Co. (www.dow.com) announced the shutdown of its Poly 2 LDPE plant in Freeport, Texas. The shutdown is expected to be completed…
November 2008, Bringing the corrosion resistance of tantalum to off-the-shelf stainless-steel parts, p. 16: In the original version, the company location and Website are both misspelled. The corrected details are Tantaline (Lyngby, Denmark; www.tantaline.com).
In the future Endress+Hauser (Reinach, Switzerland; www.endress.com) will support its customers in the Emirate of Qatar with their own distribution and service company. Endress+Hauser (Qatar) L.L.C. has opened for business early this month. The Persian Gulf region is experiencing enormous…
POSCO Group (Seoul, South Korea), the worlds’s fourth biggest steel producer, has commissioned Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.biz) to provide extensive services for the construction of four new coke-oven batteries to expand its coke production by more than 2.3 million…
Plant Watch Linde and Samsung Engineering to build ethylene plant in India January 7, 2009 — The Linde Group (Munich, Germany) and its consortium partner Samsung Engineering Co. have been awarded the contract to build a turnkey ethylene plant in…
The Rubber division of the American Chemical Society (www.rubber.org) is now accepting online abstract submissions for the 176th technical meeting being held during the Rubber Expo, October 13 – 15, 2009, Pittsburgh, Pa. Scheduled symposia include the following: Automobile Elastomers…
Stephen Weinberg joins Audubon Engineering Solutions (Houston, Tex.) as director of process technology. Haws Corp. (Sparks, Nev.) names William O’Keefe corporate marketing manager. Honeywell Process Solutions (Phoenix, Ariz.) appoints Normal Gilsdorf president. Bill St. Thomas becomes sales manager of North…