Cognis GmbH (Monheim, Germany; www.cognis.com) has opened an affiliate in Mumbai, India. As of today, Cognis India will be a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Cognis Group, and will operate under the name of Cognis Specialty Chemicals Pvt. Ltd. Cognis first…
Invensys Process Systems (IPS; Plano, Tex.; www.ips.invensys.com) has teamed with Pepperl+Fuchs Inc. (Twinsburg Ohio; www.am.pepperl-fuchs.com) to offer seamless integration of the Pepperl+Fuchs intrinsically safe I/O interface product lines with IPS' I/A Series distributed control system technology. With built-in barriers and…
Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.powergeneration.siemens.com) has built a large ground-based photovoltaic (PV) plant in Italy under contract to Ferrarelle S.p.A, the Italian bottled water company. The turnkey solar power plant, with a peak capacity of 1 megawatt (MWp), was constructed…
HPD (Plainfield, Ill.), a Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies company (www.veoliawater.com), has been awarded the front-end engineering design (FEED) phase for Natural Soda’s proposed “State of the Art” expansion at its existing facility near Rifle, Colorado. The design effort from…
Süd-Chemie AG (www.sud-chemie.com) The Linde Group (Both Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) have started up a pilot plant for processing lignocellulosic biomass (straw) into biofuels. The facility — officially opened at Süd-Chemie’s research center in Munich-Obersendling on April 27 — will be…
Solutia Inc. (St. Louis, Mo.;www.solutia.com) will be supplying Therminol synthetic heat transfer fluid to a new 50-MW, solar-thermal power plant in Lebrija, Spain, which will start up in spring 2010. Iberese, a Spanish company dedicated to building and managing plants…
ESK Ceramics GmbH & Co. KG (Kempten, Germany; www.esk.com) and Ceratec Technical Ceramics BV (Geldermalsen, Netherlands; www.ceratec.nl), have deepened their already 20-year-old, successful business relationship. At the end of 2008, the two partners signed a contract focusing on intensifying joint…
Sarlink (Sittard, Netherlands; www.sarlink.com) has officially opened a new production facility in Genk, Belgium. The new plant will double Sarlink’s global capacity and provide the company with a timely expansion as Thermoplastic Vulcanisate (TPV) material solutions are becoming more popular…
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…
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…