Foster Wheeler Ltd. (Hamilton, Bermuda; www.fwc.com) announced that its South African subsidiary, Foster Wheeler South Africa (Pty) Ltd., part of its Global Engineering and Construction Group, has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by Senmin International (Pty)…
Royal DSM N.V. (Heerlen, Netherlands; www.dsm.com) today announces that the second polymerization plant for Stanyl polyamide 46 on the Chemelot site in Geleen, Netherlands, has opened. The new plant doubles DSM’s worldwide production capacity for this high-performance plastic, supporting expected…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is to expand its site in Antwerp with capital expenditures amounting to some 35-million euros. The plan is to raise the capacity of the caprolactam production plant in the port of Antwerp by 10% by…
Today, Repsol's (Madrid, Spain; www.repsolypf.com) CEO, Antonio Brufau, Portugal’s Prime Minister, and Minister of Economy José Socrates and Manuel Pinho, have announced the initiation of the Sines Petrochemical Complex expansion project. This important project is one of company's main worldwide…
Norgren Inc. (Chicago, Ill.) and Pneu-Logic Corp. (Portland, Org.) today announced a joint initiative to provide what they say is the chemical process industries' (CPI) first intelligent compressed air management program offering plant-wide analysis, realtime process control and pneumatic system…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has won an order from Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) for the design and delivery of an iron-ore sinter plant for SAIL’s Rourkela Steel Plant in Orissa. Outotec will implement the turnkey plant project…
2008 Perkin Medal Honors a Pioneer in CFC and HCFC Aternatives On the 18th of this month, the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI; London; www.soci.org) awards its 2008 Perkin Medal to Dr. Ian Shankland, director of technology for Honeywell’s Fluorine…
ABB (Zurich, Switzerland) appoints Joseph Hogan CEO. Cal Dooley becomes president and CEO of the American Chemistry Council (Arlington, Va.). The Automation Federation (Research Triangle Park, N.C.) names Paul B. Goodson managing director. Judy Nabers is elected CFO of Container…
Plant Watch Emerson wins contract to automate water-treatment-chemicals plant in China August 20, 2008 — Nalco Industrial Services Co. has selected Emerson Process Management to be the main instrument vendor for a new water-treatment-chemicals plant in the Nanjing Chemical &…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) plans to acquire Ciba Holding AG (Basel, Switzerland), a leading specialty chemical company, and will make a public takeover offer to Ciba’s shareholders. BASF will pay CHF 50.00 in cash for each nominal share in…