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Messer starts production of Kr and Xe in China
Messer (Bad Soden/Frankfurt, Germany; www.messergroup.com) the largest privately run industrial gases specialist, has started up a plant for the production of the noble gases krypton and xenon. A sophisticated process extracts the rare gases from the air, which are mainly…
Siemens delivers another wet air oxidation system to Sinopec
Siemens Industry Automation Division (Nuremberg, Germany; www.siemens.com/water) is providing another Zimpro wet air oxidation (WAO) system to treat wastewater at Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical Co.’s facility, near the Yangzi River in Jiangsu Province, China. The most recent of seven Zimpro WAO…
MoU to market tri-generation, stationary fuel-cell power plants
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) and FuelCell Energy, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.fuelcellenergy.com) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work toward the market development of stationary Direct FuelCell (DFC) power plants that simultaneously produce hydrogen, ultra-clean electricity and…
GEA acquires Swiss specialist in aseptic valves
GEA Group AG (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.geagroup.com) has acquired Aseptomag (Kirchberg, Switzerland), one of the world’s leading suppliers of aseptic and hygienic valves, valve modules, and system solutions. Aseptomag had a workforce of 35 employees and generated revenue of around CHF19.5…
Dover’s Pump Solutions Group acquires Maag Group
Pump Solutions Group (PSG), a business unit within the Engineered Systems segment of Dover Corp. (Downer’s Grove, Ill.; www.DoverCorporation.com), has completed the acquisition of Maag Group (Maag; Zurich, Switzerland; www.maag.com) for a purchase price of approximately $285 million, subject to normal…
MHI Receives Large-scale CO2 recovery plant order for Quatar
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.co.jp) has received an order for a large-scale carbon-dioxide recovery plant for Qatar Fuel Additives Co., Ltd. (QAFAC), a major fuel additive producer in Qatar, through MHI Industrial Engineering & Services Private Ltd.…
Air Products wins long-term supply contract for Xinlianxin in China
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has signed a long-term contract with Henan Xinlianxin Fertilizer (Xinlianxin) and will build, own and operate an air separation unit (ASU) and integrated gas liquefier in Henan Province, China. The ASU will produce approximately…
Technip awarded an engineering contract for Petronas’ Rapid project in Malaysia
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) has been awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract by Petronas for its proposed Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (Rapid) project located in the state of Johor, Malaysia. Rapid aims at building a world-scale integrated refinery…
Jacobs wins contract for Vale’s new acid plant in Canada
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Vale Canada Ltd. (Vale) to design and supply a new sulfuric acid plant for its Sudbury smelter in Ontario, Canada. The acid plant contract, with an estimated value…
Linde to supply air gases to Chinese chemicals producer
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) has been selected to supply air gases to chemicals producer Dahua Group on Songmu Island in Dalian, Northeast China. Linde will be investing around €70 million in the project. An agreement outlining the terms…