Today, SGL Group (Wiesbaden, Germany; www.sglgroup.com) announced commissioning of its integrated carbon and graphite plant in Banting, Malaysia. Operations will begin in modular form with the graphitization of semi-finished graphite electrodes and machining. By 2011, the site will be developed…
Brooks Instrument (Hatfield, Pa.; www.brooksinstrument.com), a flow measurement and control provider, has acquired Key Instruments, Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Key Instruments is a flowmeter manufacturer that offers precision-machined acrylic, molded-plastic, glass-tube and electronic flowmeters, as well…
Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX; Mexico City; www.pemex.com) Petroquímica Morelos has awarded GTC México (Queretaro;) an EPC contract to revamp its ethylene oxide plant. GTC was chosen based on proven solutions, plant operation reliability, and safety. As part of the agreement, GTC…
Sener Ingeniería y Sistemas, S.A. (Madrid, Spain; www.sener.es) has been awarded the supply contract for high accuracy two axes drives for the 2,650 heliostats in the Gemasolar central tower concentration solar energy plant that is being built in Seville, Spain.…
In order to give the AutomationML standard a formal basis, seven companies and institutes founded the AutomationML Organization as industrial consortium on April 8th, 2009, at the site of Zuhlke in Eschborn, Germany. Representatives of ABB, Daimler, Fraunhofer IITB, NetAllied…
Further to the announcement today that Viridor Laing (Greater Manchester) Limited has achieved financial close on the Private Finance Initiative waste and recycling contract with Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority, Ineos ChlorVinyls (www.ineos.com) is able to announce that it has…
Choren Components GmbH, a part of the Choren Group (Freiberg, Germany, www.choren.com) is currently supplying modern burner technology and pressure-bearing equipment for coal processing to the People’s Republic of China. The burners, each weighing up to 1.6 metric tons (m.t.),…
The Bosch Thermotechnology division (Stuttgart, Germany; www.bosch.com) plans to take over Loos Deutschland GmbH (Gunzenhausen, Germany), as well as its subsidiaries and investments outside Germany. The agreement to acquire 100% of the shares was signed in Stuttgart on April 7,…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced today that it was awarded front-end engineering for CO2 capture for the SaskPower Boundary Dam Integrated Carbon Capture and Sequestration Demonstration project in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada. The contract value for the first quarter award…
Aspen Technology, Inc. (Burlington, Mass.; www.aspentech.com), a leading provider of software and services to the process industries, today introduced batch process development innovations for the pharmaceutical and specialty chemical industries. The innovations in the new 7.1 release of aspenONE software…