Business & Economics
Pfeiffer Vacuum acquires vacuum component manufacturer
Pfeiffer Vacuum Technology AG Asslar, Germany; www.pfeiffer-vacuum.net) has signed a contract to acquire Trinos Vakuum-Systeme GmbH (Göttingen, Germany). Under the terms of the agreement, Pfeiffer Vacuum will acquire 100% of the shares in Trinos effective January 1, 2010. The purchase…
Air Liquide acquires HGM H2-generation technology
Air Liquide (www.us.airliquide.com) has acquired the Hydrogen Generation Module (HGM) technology from H2Gen Innovations Inc. (Alexandria, Va.), a designing, manufacturing and marketing company for on-site hydrogen generators and gas purification units. The agreement took effect November 19, 2009. The HGM…
Outotec to deliver thickening technology to Peru
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has been awarded a contract by Minera Chinalco Perú for the supply of a thickening technology for Toromocho’s greenfield copper project in Peru. The contract value is approximately €11 million. Outotec’s scope includes design, fabrication and…
New contract for a fertilizer complex in Abu Dhabi
Samsung Engineering Co., Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea; www.samsungengineering.co.kr) has commissioned Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) to provide extensive licensing, engineering and supply services within the scope of a large plant contract, which Ruwais Fertilizer Industries (FERTIL; Abu Dhabi) has awarded…
Solutia’s Therminol heat transfer fluids selected for a new world-scale polysilicon plant in China
Solutia Inc. (St. Louis, Mo.; www.therminol.com) announced today that it has supplied Therminol D12 and Therminol 66 synthetic heat transfer fluids to a new state of the art, 15,000 metric ton per year (m.t./y) solar-grade high-purity polysilicon manufacturing plant in…
Calendar: January to March 2010
21st International Organic Process Research & Development. Scientific Update Conferences (East Sussex, U.K.). Phone: +44 (0) 1435 873062; Web: scientificupdate.co.uk San Diego, Calif. Jan. 20–22 Stem Cells World Congress. Select Biosciences (Shelton, Conn.). Phone: 203-926-1400; Web: selectbiosciences.com South San…
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BASF to realign its fuel cell business and more
Siemens gasification technology selected for Taylorville Energy Center November 10, 2009 — Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, Fla.; www.siemens.com) has been chosen to provide the coal gasification technology for the Taylorville Energy Center (TEC), the 730-MW (gross) advanced clean-coal generating plant…
Herman Purutyan named CEO at Jenike & Johnson…
Bradley Huber Kullman Thibault Purutyan Paul Bradley becomes business manager —specialties peroxygens group for Solvay Chemicals (Houston). W. Troy Roder, president and CEO of Houston-based Foster Wheeler USA becomes chairman and CEO of Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd. (Reading, England). ABB…
Smooth Your Retrieval of Plant-Design Data
Most chemical engineers involved with operating large chemical process facilities have encountered the following challenge: Several large engineering contractors built the facility in multiple phases, using different computer-software models. Retrieving drawings or data in both digital and non-digital form in…