Business & Economics
Calendar: January – February 2008
North America North American Environmental Field Conference & Exhibition. The Nielsen Environmental Field School, Inc. (Las Cruces, N.M.). Phone: 888-965-5026; Fax: 575-532-5978; Web: envirofieldconference.com Tampa, Fla. Jan. 14 – 16 13th Annual Transportation, Distribution and Security Conference. Chemical Week Conferences…
December Who’s Who
Ioannis I. Valvis joins BASF (Florham Park, N.J.) as pharmaceutical industry director for its Intermediates business. ConocoPhillips (Houston, Tex.) promotes Stephen R. Brand to senior vice president of technology. CorrBan Technologies, Inc. (Houston, Tex.) names Jeanne P. Haner vice president…
Economic Indicators: Business News
Plant Watch Clean gasoline technologies planned for SPRC in Thailand November 14, 2007 — The Star Petroleum Corp. (SPRC) has selected Axens’ technologies for its clean gasoline project in Rayong, Thailand. SPRC will install a 22,640-bbd/d grassroots unit that will…
HPD to supply technologies for brine-production facility
HPD (Plainfield, Ill.; www.veoliawater.com HPD — a Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies company — has been awarded the supply of crystallization and evaporation equipment to TETRA Technologies, Inc. for their new facility located near El Dorado, Arkansas. The new plant…
Solvay Indupa will produce bioethanol-based vinyl in Brasil
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announces today that the Board of its affiliate Solvay Indupa has approved a further $135-million-investment program to expand and increase the competitiveness of its vinyls production plant of Santo Andre, Brazil. This second stage of…
Rockwell/Dassault to integrate digital factory and plant operations
Rockwell Automation (www.rockwellautomations.co.uk), a leading global provider of industrial automation power, control and information solutions and Dassault Systèmes (www.3ds.com), a world leader in 3D and product life cycle management (PLM) solutions, recently announced that they have signed a memorandum of…
KBR lands contract for large NH3 plant in Venezuela
KBR (Houston, Tex.; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a $57-million contract by MAN Ferrostaal AG (MFS) to provide basic and detailed engineering services for an 1,800 m.t./d ammonia plant for Petroquímica de Venezuela, S.A. (Pequiven). The plant will be the first…
Dow Chemical and Petrochemical Industries Company of Kuwait announce JV
The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow; Midland, Mich., USA; www.dow.com) and Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC; and Kuwait City, Kuwait; www.pic.com.kw), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corp. (KPC; www.kpc.com.kw), today announced plans to form a 50/50 joint venture that will…
Producing cleaner-burning fuels from CO2
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop,com), a Honeywell company, announced today that it will partner with the University of Southern California's (USC) Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute to develop and commercialize new technology to transform carbon dioxide into clean-burning alternative fuels.…
SOCMA presents 2007 Performance Improvement Awards
The Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association (SOCMA; Washington, D.C.) presented the 2007 Performance Improvement Awards, sponsored by SOCMA’s ChemStewards program, at their annual dinner last night. The Performance Improvement Awards recognize member facilities demonstrating outstanding commitment to continuous improvement in…