Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with Norilsk Nickel for the delivery of minerals processing technology and equipment to the Bystrinskoe copper concentrator in the Chita Region in Russia. The parties do not disclose the contract price,…
On September 15, Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzer.com) agreed to acquire Advanced Separation Company B.V. (ASCOM) and ProLabNL B.V., (both Arnhem, the Netherlands). These acquisitions expand the offering of the division Sulzer Chemtech for gas-liquid and liquid-liquid separation technologies and…
Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany; www.merckgroup.com) Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, Mo.; www.sigma-aldrich.com) have entered into a definitive agreement under which Merck will acquire Sigma-Aldrich for $17.0 billion (€13.1 billion), establishing one of the leading players in the $130 billion global life science…
Siemens AG (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) executes on its Vision 2020 with a decisive move to strengthen its core. The company has entered into an agreement with Dresser-Rand (Houston), which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, to acquire all…
Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS; Yokohama, Japan; www.mpshq.com) has received an order from ENEA Wytwarzanie S.A., a power producer in Poland, for two sets of selective catalytic reduction (SCR) deNOx system for installation at Units 1 and 2 of the…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has opened a new office in Manila, the Philippines, as part of the company's expansion in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. The new office was inaugurated by Stuart Sneyd, president of Outotec's APAC region, in…
Technology, engineering and project management company Neste Jacobs Oy (Porvoo, Finland; www.nestejacobs.com) and Borealis (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) have signed an agreement for Neste Jacobs to deliver the EPCM (engineering, procurement, construction and management) services for the upgrade of the process…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Cobre del Mayo on the delivery of full anode conversion of the Piedras Verdes copper electrowinning plant in Mexico. The delivery will include over 6,000 of the new mixed metal oxide coated…
Specialty chemicals group Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is strengthening its production network in China to meet the high level of demand for iron oxide pigments and is adding a mixing and milling plant to the pigment plant already under…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) today announced the start-up of a new butadiene extraction plant at its Verbund site in Antwerp, Belgium. The plant has an annual production capacity of 155,000 metric tons (m.t.). The plant in Antwerp is BASF’s…