World’s largest gas turbine begins trial operation
First firing of the world’s largest and most powerful gas turbine, developed by Siemens (Erlangen,…
Linde seals exclusive gas contract in China
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) has secured a long-term contract with Ningbo Wanhua Polyurethane,…
Kureha to produce PGA in West Virginia
Kureha Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.kureha.co.jp/en ) says it will invest more than $100 million to…
BASF producing natural gas in Siberia with Gazprom
BASF AG (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and OAO Gazprom (Moscow, Russia) today officially launched production operations…
Oxea optimizes product portfolio, increases production capacity
Oxea GmbH, (Oberhausen, Germany; www.oxea-chemicals.com) one of the world’s leading manufacturers of oxo products and…
Topsøe to license hydrocracking technology
Two European refining majors – Slovnaft in Slovakia and OVM/Petrom in Romania - have signed…
Siemens I&S receives cement contract
The Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services Group (I&S; Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com/cement) has received an order…
Cover Story: 39th Kirkpatrick Award Announced
Last month at a gala dinner at New York’s Rainbow Room, Chemical Engineering (CE) had…
Economic Indicators: Business News
Plant Watch Clean gasoline technologies planned for SPRC in Thailand November 14, 2007 — The…
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)…
HPD to supply technologies for brine-production facility
HPD (Plainfield, Ill.; www.veoliawater.com HPD — a Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies company — has…
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…
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…
Producing cleaner-burning fuels from CO2
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop,com), a Honeywell company, announced today that it will partner…
New distillate hydrocracker starts up at Dalian refinery
Total (Paris, France; www.total.com) announces the startup of a new distillate hydrocracker at the Wepec…
$24-million investment planned for commercial biofuel in Midwestern U.S.
Dynamotive Energy Systems Corp., and its subsidiary, Dynamotive USA, Inc., announced plans to build a…
UOP to supply technology for first North American refinery since 1984
Newfoundland & Labrador Refining Corp. (NLRC) has selected UOP LLC (Des Plains, Ill.; www.uop.com) a…
Lurgi wins gasifier contract in Canada
Lurgi AG (Frankfurt, Germany; www.lurgi.com) has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract…
Grundfos Group acquires Peerless Pump Co.
Effective December 1 2007, the Grundfos Group (www.grundfos.com; Denmark) has acquired Peerless Pump Co. Peerless…