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Patrick McCarty becomes president of separations company KMPT USA…

Clements Murray Davidson McCarty Rummel John Paterson becomes vice-president of Ross Mixing, Inc. (Port St. Lucie, Fla.), a division of Charles Ross and Son Co. (Hauppauge, N.Y.). Paratherm Corp. (West Conshohocken, Pa.) promotes Rich Clements to COO and vice-president of…

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Dow completes its acquisition of Rohm and Haas and announces divestiture of Morton Salt…

Plant Watch Bayer MaterialScience builds polyurethane raw materials facility March 27, 2009 — Bayer MaterialScience (Leverkusen, Germany) is to invest 20 million euros in a new aromatic and aliphatic polyisocyanate manufacturing facility in India. The new plant in Ankleshwar, in…

Sulzer Chemtech strengthens its process technology business

As an expert in thermal, diffusional and membrane separation technology for the separation and purification of aqueous and organic mixtures, Kühni provides process engineering services, designs, manufactures and supplies process equipment and turn-key modular plants to the process industry with…

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Emerson Joins PNO

Emerson Process Management (St. Louis, Mo.; www.emersonprocess.com) has joined the Profibus  Nutzerorganisation e.V. (PNO;  www.profibus.com) to expand technology that will improve asset and machinery health management for its customers. Process manufacturers use several buses to digitally integrate their facilities. Foundation…

SABIC chooses Skire Unifier for enterprise project management solution

Skire, Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.), a provider of capital program, facilities, real estate and project portfolio management software has announced that Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) has selected Skire Unifier as its strategic enterprise project management system for supporting global…

Evonik recognized for improving energy efficiency

State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology Jochen Homann handed Dr. Hans-Jürgen Kress, head of the Operational Excellence unite (OPEX) at Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) the award for taking third place in the International Energy…

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Start of large-scale production of Baycusan

Bayer MaterialScience AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayermaterialscience.com) has invested 2.3 million euros in a new production line for its Baycusan range of waterborne polyurethane dispersions (PUD) for the cosmetics and medical segments. The new facility, which forms part of the PUD…

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Shaw to provide basic engineering support for F-T units

The Shaw Group Inc. (Baton Rouge, La.; www.shawgrp.com) says that its Energy & Chemicals Group has been selected by Sasol to provide basic engineering support for two Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) units. Shaw is providing the basic engineering package for the Fischer-Tropsch…

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BASF to sell China process-catalysts site to Süd-Chemie

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its catalysts-manufacturing facility in Nanjing, China, to Süd-Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.sud-chemie.com). The facility is independent from BASF’s main Verbund site in Nanjing. Both…

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BASF expands capacity at Texas facility

BASF Catalysts LLC (Iselin, N.J.; www.basf.com) has completed a significant debottlenecking and expansion project to meet the growing global demand for its current and new polypropylene catalysts. The increased capacity is specifically targeted for producing the company’s breakthrough LYNX polypropylene…