Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com/energy) received a contract from its Indian licensee Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL) for the supply of components for two steam turbine-generators. The customer is the state-owned energy utility National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd. (NTPC). The…
KSB AG (Frankenthal, Germany; www.ksb.de) has opened a training center at its Frankenthal location. The newly created rooms offer the perfect setting for operations engineers, consultants, installation contractors and service professionals to become acquainted with the KSB’s automation products. Those…
Genencor (Palo Alto, Calif.; www.genencor.com), a division of Danisco A/S (Copenhagen, Denmark; www.danisco.com) and Brain AG (Zwingenberg, Germany; www.brain-biotech.de), have joined forces in the field of the bio-based fermentative production of industrially relevant biochemicals from renewable raw materials. Genencor will…
The technology group The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) and its consortium partner Samsung Engineering Co. (Korea: www.samsungengineering.co.kr) have been awarded the contract to build a turnkey ethylene plant in Dahej, India. The plant has been commissioned by the Indian…
In the course of the closing end of December 2008, Süd-Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.sud-chemie.com) has acqured the ceramics filter business, which operates under the name of Hi-Tech, of the Cookson Group Plc. (London). Hi-Tec (Alfred Station, N.Y.) develops and…
Kazakhstan’s JSC Trade House KazMunaiGaz has selected Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison Cedex – France; www.axens.net) ParamaX Technology Suite for the first major aromatics complex to be located at the Atyrau Refinery in Kazakhstan. The Atyrau refinery processes up to 5.0 million metric…
GEA Ibérica, the Spanish subsidiary of the GEA Group AG (Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com), has acquired Caldemón Ibérica S.A., a leading manufacturer of shell-and-tube heat exchangers and surface condensers, commonly used in solar thermal power plants. In 2008, the company expects…
Hoerbiger Holding AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.hoerbiger.com) has acquired Altronic, Inc. (Girard, Ohio), effective January 1, 2009. Hoerbiger will integrate the company into the Business Division Engine Solutions, and therefore into the Strategic Business Unit Compression Technology. Altronic has locations in…
Patent Savvy for Managers. By Kirk Teska. Nolo, 950 Parker St., Berkeley, CA 94710-2524. Web: nolo.com. 2007. 278 pages, $29.99 Reviewed by Charles R. Richard, Patent Attorney, Washington, D.C. [email protected] The book I am reviewing here is one in a…
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (New York, N.Y.) names June Wispelwey executive director. Richard L. Killion becomes president and COO of Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (Baberton, Ohio). Bio-Chem Fluidics (Boonton, N.J.) appoints John Tully distribution sales…