Business & Economics
Praxair starts up new plant in Costa Rica
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has started up its new air-separation plant in San Jose, Costa Rica. In addition to meeting increasing demand for oxygen, nitrogen and argon from industrial and medical customers in Costa Rica, the new facility positions…
KBR to license Veba Combi Cracker Technology
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has signed a Collaboration Agreement with BP (www.bp.com) to promote, market, and execute licensing and engineering services for the slurry bed residue and coal upgrading Veba Combi Cracker (VCC) Technology. VCC Technology is a hydrogen addition…
ChemInnovations Conference & Exhibition Announced
Chemical Engineering, the leading global publication for the chemical process industries (CPI), has announced that the ChemInnovations Conference & Exhibition, which will be the only major CPI show in North America in 2010, will take place October 19–21 at Reliant…
Artisan and Aonix merge to become Atego
ArtisanSoftware Tools and Aonix have merged to create a new, stronger independent force in the mission- and safety-critical systems and software development tools market. The merged company is named Atego and headquartered in San Diego, Calif. (www.atego.com) Artisan Software Tools…
Lonza team honored for microreactor technology
The Swiss Chemical Society (SCG; Bern; www.swiss-chem-soc.ch) has awarded the 2010 Sandmeyer Prize for industrial chemistry to a team of four from Lonza (Basel; www.lonzagroup.com). The groundbreaking work in the field of microreactors and continuous flow processes was recommended and…
Lanxess builds new plant in Germany
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is building a new chemical plant at its site in Bitterfeld, Germany. This marks the specialty chemicals group’s move into a new segment of the water treatment business. The company is investing a total of…
Axens and Headwaters form DCL alliance
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) and Headwaters Inc. (South Jordan, Utah; www.headwaters.com) have signed an agreement to form a strategic alliance to provide a single-source solution for producing ultra-clean fuels by direct coal liquefaction (DCL) alone or in combination with refinery residues…
Total and ConocoPhillips sanction Phase 2 of the Surmont Project
Total S.A. (Paris, France; www.total.com ) and ConocoPhillips (Houston; www.conocophillips.com) announce the sanction of the Surmont Phase 2 SAGD (Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage) development in Canada. The project, slated to begin initial construction in 2010, will increase Surmont’s production capacity from…
ABB Safety Execution Center: TÜV certified
ABB (Wickliffe, Ohio; www.abb.com) says its Safety Execution Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina has been certified by TÜV as having in place and applying a Functional Safety Management System (FSMS) for delivery and implementation of safety system projects in accordance to…
Emerson & Meridium: asset management
Emerson Process Management (Baar, Switzerland; www.emersonprocess.eu) and Meridium Inc. (Roanoke, Virginia; www.meridium.com) announce a partnership to deliver enhanced asset management capabilities to their customers in the process industries. By combining the power of Emerson’s PlantWeb predictive intelligence with Meridium’s advanced analytics…