To meet the needs of the fast-growing photovoltaic (PV) solar energy market, DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) today announced that it will expand production of its Solamet thick-film metallization pastes at its Electronic Materials DuPont Dongguan Ltd. (EMDD) facility in China.…
Alfa Laval (Lund, Sweden; www.alfalaval.com) has received an order for the Packinox plate heat exchanger from a petrochemical company in China. The order value is about SEK 60 million, and delivery is scheduled for 2009. “During the second quarter this…
S-Oil Corp. (Seoul, Korea; www.s-oil.com/eng) has selected Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) ParamaX Technology Suite for the No.2 Aromatics complex at the Onsan refinery in South Korea. The new 1,180,000-m.t./yr plant will add capacities of 900,000 m.t./yr paraxylene and 280,000 m.t./yr…
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France www.axens.net) has been awarded a design package for the new, 400,000 bbl/d, world class, full-conversion refinery in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The refining and petrochemical complex is scheduled to start-up in 2012. Among the units that are being…
Lurgi Zimmer GmbH, a company of Lurgi GmbH (Frankfurt, Germany; www.lurgi.de), has been awarded a contract to supply its state-of-the-art polyamide 6 (PA6) technology for Tianjin Haijing Polymerization Co., Ltd., P.R. China. Polyamide is a widely used polymer for sophisticated…
Ekato Fluid Misch- ind Dispergiertechnik GmbH (Lörrach, Germany; www.fluidmix.de), a company of the Ekato Group (Schopfheim, Germany; www.ekato.de), has recently received an order for over 300 mixers from AKW Apparate + Verfahren GmbH (Hirschau, Germany). Wth a volume of nearly 1…
After opening its new offices last autumn in the United States, the Pieralisi Group (Jesi, Italy; www.pieralisi.com) has added another new piece to its worldwide jigsaw by inaugurating a commercial branch office in Tunisia. The Pieralisi North America offices, based…
Swagelok Co. (Solon, Ohio; www.swagelok.com) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of the assets of Coreflex LLC (Bowie, Md.), a manufacturer of high-quality hose products used mostly in semiconductor, biopharmaceutical, and other demanding applications. Terms of the agreement…
After a production period of only 18 months, Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.powergeneration.siemens.com) is to deliver the first two of five coal gasifiers to Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group Co. Ltd. (SNCG) in China. The coal gasifiers, each with a thermal…
BASF S.E. (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is planning to construct a production plant for sodium methylate in Guaratinguet‡, Brazil, its largest site in South America. The plant, which will have a capacity of 60,000 m.t./yr, will be the first such plant…