Novo Nordisk A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark; www.novonordisk.com) today announced a major investment in a new insulin production plant in Tianjin, China. The plant has been designated Novo Nordisk’s primary production base in the Asia Pacific region and will supply both China…
SulphCo, Inc. (Houston, Tex.; www.sulphco.com), a technology company with a patented ultrasound process to desulfurize crude oil, announced today, that in October field trials it successfully duplicated on a commercial scale the positive results recently produced in its Houston laboratory.…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) and Eesti Energia (www.energia.ee) have agreed to form a joint company for the development and marketing of sustainable, energy-efficient and economically viable oil shale processing methods. Eesti Energia will have a majority 60% stake and…
K-TEK Corp., (Prairieville, La.; www.ktekcorp.com), a leading manufacturer of instrumentation for liquid-level measurement, has announced the integration of ASI Instruments to the corporation’s product lines. ASI Instruments specializes in level detection and measurement for dry-bulk solids. ASI Instruments will become…
To further strengthen its presence and services to clients in Latin America, Haldor Topsøe (www.topsoe.com), a supplier of heterogeneous cataysis and process supplies has opened a subsidiary in Argentina. The new subsidiary covers all Topsøe business areas and serves as…
Foster Wheeler Ltd., (Clinton, N.J.; www.fwc.com), a global engineering and construction contractor and power equipment supplier, announced that its South African subsidiary, Foster Wheeler South Africa, has been awarded a front-end-engineering design (FEED) contract. The contract was awarded by Sasol…
Cognis (Monheim, Germany; www.cognis.com), a global specialty-chemicals supplier, has announced that the sale of Pulcra Chemicals to Fashion Chemicals GmbH & Co. KG (Fashion Chemicals) has been formally completed. Pulcra Chemicals, which supplies process chemicals to the textile and leather…
PHREG Technologies, Inc., a startup company in Yorba Linda, Calif., has received a patent on a pyrolysis process that converts municipal waste and other bio-organic materials into a synthetic gas of 350–600 Btu/scf quality, depending on the nature of the…
Decoking in a delayed coker operation is a laborious process that can take up to 18 h. A new method that reduces the time to 6 h has been developed by US Cokertech, LLC (Norman, Okla.). This effectively triples capacity…
Heavy crude UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) plans to do further development of its Catalytic Crude Upgrading (CCU) technology through an agreement with Brazil’s Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro) and Albemarle Corp. (Baton Rouge, La.). CCU is a process…