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Lanxess builds a new membrane-filtration-technology plant in Germany; and more plant and business news…
Plant Watch Outotec to deliver precious-metals plant in China January 25, 2010 — Outotec Oy (Espoo, Finland; http://www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with Baiyin Non Ferrous Group for the design and delivery of a new precious metals plant in Gansu…
Bently Green joins Black & Veatch’s global water business….
Green Löebbert Rabie McElhattan Douglas Bently Green joins Black & Veatch’s global water business (St. Louis, Mo.) as client accounts project director. Mustang (Houston) promotes Mike Dear to CFO. Borealis AG (Vienna) appoints Gerd Löebbert executive vice-president for base chemicals.…
Calendar: March to May 2010
NORTH AMERICA Pittcon 2010. Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry & Applied Spectroscopy (Pittsburgh, Pa.). Phone: 412-825-3220; Web: pittcon.org Orlando, Fla. Feb. 28–March 5 Biopharmaceutical Development & Production Week (“Five Conferences In One”). IBC Life Sciences (Westborough, Mass.). Phone: 800-858-4881; Web:…
BMS opens world’s largest CNT pilot facility
Bayer MaterialScience (BMS; Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayermaterialscience.com) has opened a new pilot facility for the manufacture of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) at Chempark Leverkusen. The company has invested some €22 million in the planning, development and construction of the facility, which is…
AkzoNobel invests in U.K. R&D site
AkzoNobel N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) is investing almost €10 million to further boost the innovative power of the U.K. site where performance coatings that now protect many of the world’s iconic structures and ships were first developed. A fire…
Topsøe wins contract with PetroPeru
Haldor Topsøe (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) has signed a contract supplying technologies for three new plants with petroleum-oil refiner PetroPeru. The contract includes license and basic engineering of process design for the Talara refinery in Peru. The Topsøe technologies are part…
Outotec to deliver precious-metals plant in China
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with Baiyin Non Ferrous Group for the design and delivery of a new precious metals plant in Gansu Province, China. The contract value is approximately €6 million. Outotec's scope includes basic engineering,…
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…