Outotec acquires Edmeston
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has acquired all shares in Edmeston AB (Gothenburg Sweden; www.edmeston.com),…
A new material for 700°C power plants
Together with E.ON AG (Düsseldorf; www.eon.com) and Hitachi Power Europe (Duisburg, Germany; www.hitachi-power.com), ThyssenKrupp VDM…
Boliden acquires sulfuric acid plant from Kemira
Boliden AB (Stockholm, Sweden; www.boliden.com) has acquired Kemira’s sulfuric acid plant and business in Kokkola,…
Neste Jacobs & Eesti Energia to build a shale-oil condensation unit in Estonia
Neste Jacobs Oy (Porvoo, Finland; www.nestejacobs.com) and Eesti Energia (Tallinn, Estonia; www.energia.ee) agreed on building a shale…
AkzoNobel to add new plant at Ningbo site
AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands;www.akzonobel.com) is to build an additional plant at its Ningbo multi-site for…
CDTech awarded gasoline desulfurization contract
Catalytic Distillation Technologies (CDTech; Pasadena, Tex.; www.cdtech.com) has been awarded a contract by TAIF-NK OAO for…
Solvay starts up RDF cogeneration plant
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announces today that the construction of the Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF)…
Biotage acquires MIP Technologies
Biotage AB (Uppsala, Sweden; www.biotage.com) and the owners of MIP Technologies AB (Lund, Sweden: www.miptechnologies.com)…
ZeaChem validates its core biorefining technology
ZeaChem Inc. (Lakewood, Col.; www.zeachem.com today announced it has produced commercial grade ethyl acetate, thereby proving…
Borouge inaugurates its first manufacturing plant in China
Borouge (Abu Dhabi, UAE; and Singapore; www.borouge.com) — a joint venture between Abu Dhabi National…
BASF’s Catalysts division strengthens its capabilities
BASF SE’s (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) Catalysts division has completed a number of capital investment projects…
Polysilicon facilities start up at Wacker’s Burghausen site
Additional polycrystalline-silicon production facilities officially came on stream at Wacker Chemie AG’s (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com)…
HPD to supply evaporation and crystallization technology to Alkim
Alkim Alkali Kimya A.S. (Alkim; Istanbul, Turkey), one of the world’s largest producers of sodium…
Lurgi starts up ethanol plant in California
Lurgi, Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.; www.lurgi.com), a member of the Air Liquide group of companies announces…
Outotec to deliver technology for Bhushan Power & Steel Plant
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Bhushan Power & Steel Plant Ltd. (BPSL)…
Teijin & Yixing to collaborate in wastewater treatment
Teijin Ltd. (Tokyo; www.teijin.co.jp) announced today that it has signed a business collaboration agreement with…
TÜV SÜD steps up its activities in the global CPI
International provider of testing and certification services TÜV SÜD AG (Munich, Germany; www.tuev-sued.de) has taken…
Joint development of new organic semiconductors
Merck KGaA (Darmstadt; www.merck.de) and Plastic Logic GmbH (Dresden, both Germany; www.plasticlogic.com) today announced plans…
Grace and Borealis sign catalyst agreement
W. R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.; www.grace.com) today announced a new multi-year agreement to…
Pöyry awarded biomass boiler engineering project in U.S.
We Energies (Milwaukee, Wisc.; www.we-energies.com) has awarded Pöyry Oyj (Hessinki, Finland; www.poyry.com) an engineering contract…
SGL & BMW: New carbon fiber plant for U.S.
SGL Group SE (Wiesbaden, Germany; www.sglcarbon.com) and BMW Group (Munich, Germany; www.bmwgroup.com) jointly announced today…
Technip wins two contracts for Indian refinery
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) has been awarded two contracts by Hindustan Petroleum Corp. (HPCL) for…
The Road to Recovery
Like most other businesses, engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firms have felt the pinch of…
Total announces plans to repurpose its Dunkirk refinery site and more business briefs
Outotec to deliver a copper smelter for plant in China March 16, 2010 — Outotec…
Pöyry awarded pulp-mill engineering contract in Brazil
Eldorado Celulose e Papel Ltda (Brazil) has awarded Pöyry Plc. (Helsinki, Finland; www.poyry.com) a contract…