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Outotec to deliver iron-ore sinter plant to India

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…

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BASF makes offer to acquire Ciba

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…

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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…

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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…

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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 &…

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CB&I awarded contracts for world-scale petrochemical complex in India

CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com), through Lummus Technology, has been awarded contracts with an overall value in excess of $45 million by Essar Gujarat Petrochemicals Ltd. for technology licenses and basic engineering related to a major grassroots petrochemicals complex in…

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Solvay’s vinyls affiliate increases PVC production

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announces today that its Thai affiliate Vinythai has increased its polyvinyl chloride (PVC) production capacity in its plant in Map Ta Phut (Thailand) by 70,000 metric tons (m.t.) to 280,000 m.t./yr, to accompany the growth…

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The Linde Group enters into JV with Sinopec subsidiary

The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) has entered into a joint venture (JV) with Sinopec Fujian Petrochemical Company Ltd. (FPCL), a subsidiary of China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec), for the long-term supply of industrial gases to customers in the…

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Evonik Industries to sell North American cyanide activities

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has signed a contract for the sale of its U.S. and Canadian cyanide activities with Oaktree Capital Management. The cyanide business constitutes a part of the CyPlus Group owned by Evonik. The parties have…

Dow receives request for additional information regarding Rohm and Haas acquisition proposal

The Dow Chemical Co. announced that it has received a request for additional information, commonly referred to as a “Second Request,” from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regarding Dow's proposed acquisition of Rohm and Haas, which was announced on…