Süd-Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.sud-chemie.com) is substantially expanding its position in the Brazilian growth market for bentonite-based additives used in the foundry, construction, and paper industries in a joint venture (JV) with the internationally leading and largest Brazilian group in…
Veolia Water is awarded new contract for water treatment and reuse in Brazil September 15, 2009 — Under a 50/50 joint venture with Enfil, a Brazilian, water-treatment engineering company, t he Brazilian oil company Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro; http://www.petrobras.com) has…
Lurgi GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany; www.lurgi.com) has delivered, in less that 29 months, a new hydrogen unit to Grupa Lotos S.A.’s (www.lotos.pl) petroleum refinery in Gdansk, Poland. The plant designed and built on an EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) basis, went on stream…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) exits from the solar wafer business and will transfer its shares in its joint venture Wacker Schott Solar GmbH (WSS) to its former partner Schott Solar AG. Wacker and Schott Solar have reached agreement…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and CSM N.V. (Diemen, the Netherlands; www.csm.nl) today announced the cooperation between their respective subsidiaries BASF Future Business GmbH and Purac for the development of the production of biobased succinic acid. Both partners have been working…
KBR (Houston, Tex.; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract by Beijing Guoneng Yinghui Clean Energy Engineering Co. (Beijing Guoneng) to provide licensing, engineering services and proprietary equipment for the implementation of KBR's and Southern Company's Transport Integrated Gasification technology (TRIG)…
Outotec Oyi (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has received two orders from Iran with the total value of approximately €10 million. Sarcheshmeh Copper Investment Co. has ordered engineering work and converter hoods from Outotec for its copper smelter located in Sarcheshmeh. The…
Teijin Ltd. (Osaka and Tokyo; www.teijin.co.jp/english) announced that it has begun producing its proprietary heat-resistant bioplastic Biofront a demonstration plant in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture. The plant was originally Toyota Motor Corp.’s polylactic acid demonstration plant. Following the acquisition of the plant…
Cytec Engineered Materials (CEM; Tempe, Ariz.,), a business unit of Cytec Industries Inc. (www.cytec.com) and Mitsubishi Rayon Co. (MRC; Tokyo)) have entered into a strategic business collaboration to advance carbon-fiber-reinforced composite-materials technology. Both CEM and MRC will have the opportunity…
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) has inaugurated a research and development (R&D) center in Shanghai, taking the lead in the development of new high-tech industrial gas applications and solutions in China and the Asia Pacific region. It is also…