KBR lands contract for LiOH-operation expansion
KBR Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced that its Downstream business unit has been awarded a contract…
SABIC signs alcohol-technology licensing agreement
Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com) has signed an agreement with Lurgi…
Lonza acquires Vivante GMP Solutions
Lonza (Basel, Switzerland; www.lonza.com) enters the viral based-manufacturing market today with its purchase of Vivante…
Axens' Revivoil technology at PDVSA Intevep
PDVSA Intevep (www.pdvsa.com) — the technological division of Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) — has…
QualaWash acquires Manfredi Special Services
QualaWash Holdings, LLC (QHL; Tampa, Fla.; www.qualawash.com) announces the purchase of Manfredi Special Services (MSS;…
Eka Chemicals divests water-treatment chemical site
Eka Chemicals AB (Bohus, Sweden; www.akzonobel.com/eka) has agreed to divest its water treatment chemicals production…
Perstorp selects Emerson for automation system upgrade
Emerson Process Management’s (Baar, Switzerland; www.emersonprocess.com) DeltaV digital automation system has been selected by Perstorp,…
GEA: major order for power plant
The GEA Group (Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com) has received a large order over €20 million from…
LyondellBasell starts up new HDPE plant in Germany
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) has successfully started up a new 320,000-ton/yr Hostalen Advanced Cascade…
KBR lands contracts in Iraq
KBR Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded two contracts by the Republic of Iraq Ministry…
Haldor Topsoe & CoaLogix: Regenerated SCR catalyst
Haldor Topsoe Inc. (Houston; www.topsoe.com) and CoaLogix Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.; www.coalogix.com) have developed a closer…
Aruba selects VWS firms for desalination plant
Two Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies (VWS; Saint Maurice, France; www.veoliawaterst.com) companies — N.A. Water…
SGL Group expands isostatic graphite capacity
SGL Group (Wiesbaden, Germany; www.sglcarbon.com) will invest within the next three years approximately €75 million into…
SNC-Lavalin: Contract in Alberta’s oil sands
SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded an engineering and procurement (EP) contract…
Siemens: Order from the Steel Authority of India
Siemens VAI Metals Technologies (Linz, Austria, www.siemens.com/metals) has received an order from the Steel Authority of…
BASF to build dispersions plant in Huizhou
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will invest in a dispersions plant in Daya Bay Petrochemical Industrial…
Evonik to expand production capacities in China
Demand for triacetonamine derivatives (TAA derivatives) has kept rising for several years. Evonik Industries AG…
FT microchannel demonstration is up and running
The biomass-to-liquids (BTL) demonstration plant, jointly operated by the Oxford Catalysts Group (Abingdon, Oxfordshire, U.K.; www.oxfordcatalysts.com)…
Georg Fischer accelerates its expansion in China
Georg Fischer AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland; www.georgfischer.com) is further strengthening its market position in China: The…
Cobalt Technologies signs agreement with Fluor
Cobalt Technologies Mountain View, Calif., www.cobalttech.com) has signed an agreement with Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.;…
Lurgi: Large polyamide plant in China
Lurgi GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany; www.lurgi.com) has been awarded a contract for the world´s largest Polyamide 6…
KSB extends India foundry
German pump manufacture KSB Group (Frankenthal, Germany; www.ksb.com) has expanded the steel foundry capacities at…
Haldor Topsøe: Contracts with YPF Argentina
YPF Argentina and Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) have signed two contracts for the…
Teijin acquires NanoGram
Teijin Ltd. (Tokyo; www.teijin.co.jp) has acquired NanoGram Corp. (Milpitas, Calif.; www.nanogram.com) to function as a U.S.…
Air Liquide acquires German syngas plant
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed an agreement with OXEA GmbH for the acquisition…
Outotec lands iron-ore project in Australia
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has been awarded orders for Australia's Karara Iron Ore Project worth…
Iridos begins production of LCD pastes
Solvay SA (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) and Nepes (Seoul, Korea; www.nepes.co.kr) announce that their 50/50 joint venture…
ITT completes acquisition of Godwin Pumps
ITT Corp. (White Plains, N.Y.; www.itt.com) has finalized the acquisition of Godwin Pumps, as first announced…
Axens to acquire activated alumina business
Axens (Rueil Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) has signed an Asset Sale Agreement (ASA) with Canada-based Rio…
Outotec: Chromite sintering tech. for South Africa
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with RB Met Engineering (Pty) Ltd. and…