Caloric Anlagenbau GmbH (Munich, Germany; www.caloric.com) has won the contract for another Hydrogen Generation Plant in France. Caloric will provide engineering, procurement and commissioning services for a new hydrogen plant and the corresponding distributed control system (DCS), using Caloric's HC…
IDEX Corp. (Northbrook, Ill.; www.idexcorp.com) today announced the acquisition of Richter Chemie-Technik (Kempen, Germany), a leading provider of premium quality lined pumps, valves and control equipment for the chemical, fine chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Richter’s corrosion resistant fluoroplastic lined products…
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co. (Fairfax, Va.; www.exxonmobil.com/refiningtechnologies) has entered into an agreement with Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc. (Houston, Tex.; www.synthesisenergy.com) that provides SES the option to execute up to 15 methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) technology licenses in its global operations. SES…
Shintech Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. of Japan, has selected HPD (Plainfield, Ill.), a Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies (www.veoliawater.com) company, to supply a salt crystallization plant and a caustic soda concentration system as part…
Evonik Degussa GmbH (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com), has granted an exclusive license to Solvias AG (Basel, Switzerland), to develop, manufacture, and market the catASium and cataCXium ligand product lines. Evonik, a leading supplier of catalytic system solutions, remains active in homogenous…
OTTO Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) has commissioned Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.biz) to provide comprehensive engineering and supply services within the scope of two plant contracts received by the Japanese company from JFE Steel Corp. and MCC Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. The…
At its petrochemicals complex in Feluy, Belgium, Total S.A. (Paris; www.total.com) today inaugurated a demonstration plant intended to produce olefins and polyolefins from methanol. The integrated unit is the world’s first application of an innovative technology that helps to diversify…
The Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company, also known as Takreer, has selected UOP (Des Plaines, Ill.) to supply technology and engineering services for an expansion at its Ruwais Refinery in the United Arab Emirates.The refinery will produce propylene, unleaded gasoline,…
Vertellus Specialties Inc. (Indianapolis, Ind.) plans to expand its vitamin B3 manufacturing capacity in Nantong, Jiangsu, China to meet the growing need for vitamins related to animal and human nutrition in the Chinese and Asian markets. Vertellus is proceeding with…
The Wireless HART Communication Specification (HART 7.1) has been approved by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as a Publicly Available Specification (IEC/PAS 62591Ed. 1). WirelessHART Communication is the first industrial wireless communication technology to achieve this level of international recognition.…