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At 2,064 ft as of this past April, the unfinished Burj Dubai skyscraper in the United Arab Emirates is the tallest man-made structure on earth. "A structure of this kind is only possible if the right [concrete] mixture is guaranteed,"…
Aquionics Inc. (Erlanger, Ky.) appoints Kevin Shannon vice-president of sales and marketing. Pierre Patrick Crevier is named senior technologist for the Claus business of Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France). Colibrys (Neuchatel, Switzerland) elects Don Stoops vice-president, global operations. Chris Stevens becomes general…
Plant Watch A new cement plant is planned for Arizona May 19, 2008 — ABB has won an order to provide a complete electrical power and automation system for Drake Cement’s new plant in Yavapai County, Arizona. The 660,000-ton/yr plant…
Lurgi GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany; www.lurgi.com), and EuroChem (Moscow), have signed two contracts with a total value of 92.7 million euros for the design and supply of a melamine plant. The melamine unit, which will be the first of its kind…
Process Systems Enterprise (PSE; London, U.K.; www.psenterprise.com) has completed its roll-out of the 2nd generation gPROMS process-modeling platform with the release of gPROMS v3.1. gPROMS is widely used by large process industry companies in the oil & gas, chemicals, pharmaceutical…
Wonderware (Lake Forest, Calif.; us.wonderware.com), a business unit of Invensys Plc. (London; www.invensys.com), today announced the release of the Wonderware IndustryPack for Water & Wastewater designed to enhance overall productivity in facility operations for the water and wastewater industry. This…
To meet the needs of the fast-growing photovoltaic (PV) solar energy market, DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) today announced that it will expand production of its Solamet thick-film metallization pastes at its Electronic Materials DuPont Dongguan Ltd. (EMDD) facility in China.…
Alfa Laval (Lund, Sweden; www.alfalaval.com) has received an order for the Packinox plate heat exchanger from a petrochemical company in China. The order value is about SEK 60 million, and delivery is scheduled for 2009. “During the second quarter this…
After commissioning a new wafer production facility at the so-called “Jena Site 2” in mid-April, Wacker Schott Solar GmbH (Jena, Germany; www.wackerschott.de) is continuing its production-site expansion. The company announced this today during a visit by Jena mayor Albrecht Schröter.…