Aker Kvaerner ASA (Lysaker, Norway) appoints Simen Lieungh president and CEO. Craig Woolard will be the next president-elect of the American Water Works Association (Denver, Colo.). Borealis (Vienna, Austria) elects Lorenzo Delorenzi executive vice president of its Polyolefins business group…
The chemical process industries (CPI) face unprecedented opportunities in the form of global growth initiatives. But with growth and globalization comes challenge, in particular with regard to securing people and knowledge resources, and in dealing effectively with increasing technology, project…
Plant Watch Dynamotive in advanced negotiations for Biooil plant February 14, 2008 — Dynamotive USA, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Dynamotive Energy Systems Corp., is in negotiations with officials to ascertain the feasibility of locating one or more "fast-pyrolysis"…
Mustang Engineering (Mustang), a subsidiary of international energy services company John Wood Group PLC , has been authorized by ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Pte Ltd (ExxonMobil) to proceed with the detailed engineering design and site construction management for the process control…
PSE Korea, the Korean subsidiary of Process Systems Enterprise (PSE; London, U.K.; www.psenterprise.com), providers of the leading gPROMS advanced-process modeling (APM) software and related services, was officially declared open on 5 March 2008 at the PSE Korea Opening Ceremony in…
Invensys Process Systems (London; www.invensys.com) have joined ENPPI and GASCO in a joint venture (JV) to create Invensys Process System Egypt the first, “Industrial Automation Engineering Center of Excellence” in the country. This new company will play a significant role…
ABB in Norway (www.abb.com) and Metso Automation (Helsinki; www.metsoautomation.com) have reached a mutual agreement regarding joint activities and have signed a memorandum of understanding for future collaboration in the oil and gas industry. The integration of Metso Automation’s flow-control technology…
Evonik Industries AG has acquired the remaining 49 percent of its former joint venture Degussa Lynchem Co. Ltd., Dalian, China, from the Chinese shareholders Yuncai Wang and Jingkun Wang. By this transaction Degussa Lynchem has become a wholly owned subsidiary…
W. R. Grace & Co. announced plans to increase its manufacturing capacity with the expansion of its facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The expansion will enable increased production of specialty aluminas, a key raw material in Grace’s premium fluid cracking…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that it will establish a natural gas processing design center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to better support the Southeast Asia market. "Establishing this design and operations center in Malaysia…