Advanced Diamond Technologies Inc. (ADT; Romeoville, Ill.; www.thindiamond.com) announces it has been awarded the first…

hte — the high throughput experimentation company (Heidelberg, Germany; www.hte-company.com) and BP Chemicals Ltd. (Sunbury…

SulphCo Inc.(Houston, Tex.; www.suphco.com) a technology company with a patented ultrasound process designed to desulphurize…

Saltigo GmbH (Langenfeld; www.saltigo.com) , a wholly owned subsidiary of specialty chemicals group Lanxess AG…

At the end of 2008, Rotex Europe (Wavre, Belgium; www.rotex.com) has signed with Tenova Takraf…

Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has been awarded a hydrogen supply contract from Dynamic Fuels,…

The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich; www.dow.com) and Süd-Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.sud-chemie.com) today announced…

GEA Group AG (Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com) has further strengthened its Refrigeration Division through the acquisition…

Sulzer Chemtech Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzerchemtech.com) is pleased to announce the acquisition of Freeze Tec…

Samsung Petrochemical Co. (SPC; Seoul; www.samsung.com), the leading Korean producer of purified terephthalic acid (PTA),…

MIP Technologies AB (Lund, Sweden; www.miptechnologies.com) has entered into a collaboration with Sanofi-aventis (Paris, France;…

Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com/energy) received a contract from its Indian licensee Bharat Heavy Electricals…

KSB AG (Frankenthal, Germany; www.ksb.de) has opened a training center at its Frankenthal location. The…

Genencor (Palo Alto, Calif.; www.genencor.com), a division of Danisco A/S (Copenhagen, Denmark; www.danisco.com) and Brain…

The technology group The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) and its consortium partner Samsung Engineering…

GEA Ibérica, the Spanish subsidiary of the GEA Group AG (Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com), has acquired…

In the course of the closing end of December 2008, Süd-Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.sud-chemie.com)…

Kazakhstan’s JSC Trade House KazMunaiGaz has selected Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison Cedex – France; www.axens.net) ParamaX Technology…

Hoerbiger Holding AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.hoerbiger.com) has acquired Altronic, Inc. (Girard, Ohio), effective January 1,…

Researchers at the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s (DOE; Washington, D.C.) Ames Laboratory (www.ameslab.gov) and Iowa…

Bioethanol Last month, an energy-saving plant for producing bioethanol started up in Norrköping, Sweden, for…

Plant Watch Construction of AkzoNobel’s unit for ethylene amines in China progresses December 17, 2008…

I would like to draw your attention to a few points on the November 2008…

As an energy resource, global coal reserves represent 2,000 billion barrels of oil equivalent. In…

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Here, a design approach for continuous stirred-tank reactors is outlined for both reversible and irreversible…

Ceramic filters are well suited for high-temperature processes that are subject to strict emissions limits,…

In today’s fast track schedules for constructing new capital facilities, the process of designing, delivering…

Frequently, in chemical processing equipment it is possible to place the shaft support bearings in…