Aker Solutions ASA (www.akersolutions.com) has received its engineering license from the Chinese government authorities, granting the company’s subsidiary Aker Projects (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., permission to undertake engineering design for China-based projects in the chemical, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries. “We…
Royal DSM N.V. (Heerlen, Netherlands; www.dsm.com), has acquired privately held Biopract GmbH (Berlin, Germany). The acquisition will serve as an entry point for DSM into the promising biogas market, which is showing 15–20% growth per year. The acquisition has been…
ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) has completed delivery and commissioning of the 1-MW Totana photovoltaic (PV) power plant located in the region of Murcia in Spain. In a year, Totana produces 2.2 GWh of grid-quality electric power and displaces some 1,350…
Plant Watch New Linde plant in Illinois to supply hydrogen for diesel production May 19, 2009 — Linde has executed a new longterm contract with PdV Midwest Refining LLC to supply hydrogen to the company’s Citgo Lemont, Ill., oil refinery.…
Caloric Anlagenbau GmbH (Gräfelfing, Germany; www.caloric.com) has won a contract to supply a hydrogen plant in the Ukraine based on Caloric’s steam-methane-reforming technology. Caloric will provide engineering and equipment for a new H2 plant and the corresponding distributed control system,…
The Hemlock Semiconductor Group (HSC; Hemlock, Mich.; www.hscpoly.com), which includes two Dow Corning joint ventures, has started up a new 8,500 metric tons (m.t.) polycrystalline silicon (polysilicon) production facility at its Hemlock, Mich. location. This new capacity, which has been…
WackerSchott Solar GmbH (Jena, Germany; www.wackerschott.de), a joint venture between Wacker Chemie AG (Munich) and Schott Solar AG (Alzenau), officially commissioned a new factory building in Jena today. The building will be used to produce solar-grade silicon crystals. After a…
Caloric Anlagenbau GmbH (Gräfelfing near Munich, Germany; www.caloric.com) has signed the second contract for the supply of a carbon dioxide recovery unit using aMDEA-solvent within the last 12 months, based on its license granted by BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com).…
Bayer MaterialScience (BMS; Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayermaterialscience.com), a global leader in high-value polymers, announced an alliance with Nano Terra Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.; www.nanoterra.com), a leading surface engineering and nanotechnology co-development company. Nano Terra will apply its unique surface engineering expertise to…
BASF SA (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is building a new plant for the production of methylamines at its integrated Verbund site in Geismar, Louisiana, that is scheduled to start operations in 2011. The methylamines will serve as raw materials for some…