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Dow to close LDPE plant in Freeport, Texas

Driven by current economic conditions and overcapacity for low-density polyethylene (LDPE) in the North American marketplace, The Dow Chemical Co. (www.dow.com) announced the shutdown of its Poly 2 LDPE plant in Freeport, Texas. The shutdown is expected to be completed…

Postscripts, corrections  

November 2008, Bringing the corrosion resistance of tantalum to off-the-shelf stainless-steel parts, p. 16: In the original version, the company location and Website are both misspelled. The corrected details are Tantaline (Lyngby, Denmark; www.tantaline.com).  

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Endress+Hauser sets up new company in Qatar

In the future Endress+Hauser (Reinach, Switzerland; www.endress.com) will support its customers in the Emirate of Qatar with their own distribution and service company. Endress+Hauser (Qatar) L.L.C. has opened for business early this month. The Persian Gulf region is experiencing enormous…

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New coke plant for POSCO in South Korea

POSCO Group (Seoul, South Korea), the worlds’s fourth biggest steel producer, has commissioned Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.biz) to provide extensive services for the construction of four new coke-oven batteries to expand its coke production by more than 2.3 million…

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Economic Indicators: Business News

Plant Watch Linde and Samsung Engineering to build ethylene plant in India January 7, 2009 — The Linde Group (Munich, Germany) and its consortium partner Samsung Engineering Co. have been awarded the contract to build a turnkey ethylene plant in…

ACS Rubber division, call for papers

The Rubber division of the American Chemical Society (www.rubber.org) is now accepting online abstract submissions for the 176th technical meeting being held during the Rubber Expo, October 13 – 15, 2009, Pittsburgh, Pa. Scheduled symposia include the following: Automobile Elastomers…

People: Who’s Who

Stephen Weinberg joins Audubon Engineering Solutions (Houston, Tex.) as director of process technology. Haws Corp. (Sparks, Nev.) names William O’Keefe corporate marketing manager. Honeywell Process Solutions (Phoenix, Ariz.) appoints Normal Gilsdorf president. Bill St. Thomas becomes sales manager of North…

Interphex 2009 Show Preview

The world’s largest pharmaceutical conference and exhibition, Interphex, will be held at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York from March 17 – 19, 2009. On the show floor, attendees will find equipment and solutions for drug manufacturing,…

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ADT awarded a contract to make diamond biosensors

Advanced Diamond Technologies Inc. (ADT; Romeoville, Ill.; www.thindiamond.com) announces it has been awarded the first phase of a three-year, $4.8-million contract from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA; www.dtra.mil) to develop diamond-based sensors for the realtime detection of water-based chemical…

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Progress in gas-to-products research

hte — the high throughput experimentation company (Heidelberg, Germany; www.hte-company.com) and BP Chemicals Ltd. (Sunbury on Thames,  U.K.; www.bp.com) celebrate the fourth consecutive year of a successful working relationship.   Over the past four years, hte has helped BP Chemicals…