Lonza: new manufacturing facility for L-Carnitine products
Lonza (Basel, Switzerland; www.lonza.com) announced today its expansion of capacities for Carnipure and Carniking, L-Carnitine products…
Beckhoff acquires Hayes Control Systems
Beckhoff Automation GmbH (Verl, Germany; www.beckhoff.com) has been present in Great Britain since 1994 – represented…
BPCL selects Axens’ Octanizing technology
Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (BPCL; www.bharatpetroleum.com) has selected Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) to provide the technology…
ABB wins $20-million metals order in China
ABB (www.abb.com) has won a $20 million order from Shandong Nanshan Aluminum to deliver electrical…
LyondellBasell to license olefins recover-and-conversion technologies
LyondellBasell Industries (Frankfurt, Germany; www.lyondellbasell.com) has expanded its licensing portfolio of olefin recovery and conversion technologies…
Uhde and Praxair sign global H2 alliance agreement
In December 2009, Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) and its daughter firm Uhde Corporation of…
Outotec to deliver a copper smelter in China
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has been awarded a contract by Tongling Non-Ferrous Metals Group for…
FWC: EPCm contract for Sasol’s Wax Expansion Project
Foster Wheeler AG (FWC; Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that its Global Engineering and Construction…
Air Liquide to build ASU in China for steel producer
Air Liquide (Paris; www.airliquide.com) has signed another major long-term contract in the steel industry in…
Fluor & B&W to market carbon-capture technology
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) and Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc., an operating…
Caloric to build 3rd H2-generation plant for Malaysia
Caloric Anlagenbau GmbH (Gräfelfing, Germany; www.caloric.com) has won the contract for a hydrogen expansion project…
DOE: $40 million to develop next-generation nuclear plant
U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu today announced selections for the award of approximately $40…
BMS acquires Artificial Muscle
Bayer MaterialScience LLC (BMS; www.bayermaterialscience.com), a subsidiary of Bayer AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayer.com) and part…
Lanxess to expand capacity of high-performance rubber
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has decided to expand the global capacity of its high-performance rubber…
Outotec to supply sinter plant to South Africa
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with South African Kalagadi Manganese Pty. Ltd. on the…
Foster Wheeler lands CFB boiler contract for CO2-capture-development plant in Spain
Foster Wheeler AG (FW; Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has…
Wacker: new production facility for pharma proteins
Wacker Chemie AG Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) officially opened a new production facility for pharmaceutical proteins…
Uhde’s Prenflo process to be part of joint R&D project BioTfueL in France
BioTfueL is a new joint project launched by five French partners and Uhde GmbH (Dortmund,…
Toyo, Modec and Petrobras cooperate to verify small- and medium-scale GTL plant
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) and Modec, Inc. (both Tokyo, Japan; www.modec.com), which have been…
After 13 years, starchy potatoes approved
Today the European Commission approved Amflora, BASF’s genetically-optimized starch potato, for commercial application in Europe.…
Evonik developing the world’s largest Li-ceramic battery
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) and its partners are developing the world's largest lithium ceramic…
Abbott completes acquisition of Solvay Pharmaceuticals and more business news
KBR to provide licensing of its Purifer Ammonia technology February 19, 2010 — KBR (Houston;…
Disposable equipment
Not long ago, single-use bioprocessing equipment, such as disposable bags and tubing, appeared on the…
Outotec to deliver copper plant for Codelco in Chile
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with Codelco for the design and…
Merck KGaA to acquire Millipore
Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany; www.merck.de) Millipore Corp.; Billerica, Mass.; www.millipore.com) have announced that they have entered…
Evonik acquires catalyst business from H.C. Starck
On February 26, 2010 Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) acquired the catalyst business of…