Business & Economics
Rotex Europe signs a contract with Tenova Takraf
At the end of 2008, Rotex Europe (Wavre, Belgium; www.rotex.com) has signed with Tenova Takraf Italy a contract for two machines Megatex XD. The new urea plant these two machines are dedicated to will be the largest single train ammonia-urea…
Praxair awarded H2 contract by Dynamic Fuels
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has been awarded a hydrogen supply contract from Dynamic Fuels, LLC, a joint venture between Tyson Foods, Inc. and Syntroleum Corp. Dynamic Fuels will use H2 supplied by Praxair to produce renewable fuels from non-food-grade…
Dow/Süd-Chemie seek alternative routes to chemicals
The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich; www.dow.com) and Süd-Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.sud-chemie.com) today announced an agreement to research alternative routes to produce chemicals to help reduce dependence on traditional sources of oil and gas. The collaborative research aims to…
GEA strengthens position in the freezing business
GEA Group AG (Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com) has further strengthened its Refrigeration Division through the acquisition of Eurotek Engineering Ltd, a leading engineering company in the food freezing equipment business headquartered in Norwich, U.K. In 2007, Eurotek generated sales of approximately…
Sulzer Chemtech acquires Freeze Tec
Sulzer Chemtech Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzerchemtech.com) is pleased to announce the acquisition of Freeze Tec B.V. (Raamsdonksveer, Netherlands) as of January 1, 2009. Freeze Tec is specialized in the field of melt suspension crystallization for chemical and food applications with…
AkzoNobel to divest non-stick coatings activities
AkzoNobel (akzonobel.com) has agreed to divest its non-stick coatings business to privately owned, U.S.-based company Whitford Worldwide. Financial details have not been disclosed. The deal involves AkzoNobel's global cookware and bakeware activities, which operate out of five sites in the…
Samsung Petrochemical, PSE collaborate on PTA optimization
Samsung Petrochemical Co. (SPC; Seoul; www.samsung.com), the leading Korean producer of purified terephthalic acid (PTA), and Process Systems Enterprise (PSE; London; www.psenterprise.com), providers of gPROMS modeling technology and process optimization services, have signed an agreement for joint development of new…
Developing a selective-separation polymer for biopharmaceuticals
MIP Technologies AB (Lund, Sweden; www.miptechnologies.com) has entered into a collaboration with Sanofi-aventis (Paris, France; en.sanofi-aventis.com) for the development of new molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) for the analysis of pharmacologically active peptides from plasma samples. MIP Technologies will use a…
Siemens to supply key components to India for advanced steam power plants
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…
A new training center for pump-automation products
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…