Oxea GmbH (Oberhausen, Germany; www.oxea-chemicals.com) announces significant capacity expansion for specialty esters to keep up with growing demand. The capacity of the existing Ester unit in Oberhausen will be extended by 40%, effective second half 2011. Additionally, Oxea plans to build…
Micronics, Inc. (Portsmouth, N.H.; www.micronicsinc.com), manufacturers of filter presses, filter plates, and filter cloths used for gold, silver, and mineral processing in the mining industry, has been awarded a $14-million contract to provide Lasta MC Filter Presses to a north…
Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.; www.eastman.com) has successfully completed a further expansion of its manufacturing capacity for Eastman 168 non-phthalate plasticizer at its Kingsport, Tenn., USA, facility. A versatile non-phthalate plasticizer for PVC, Eastman 168 has a long and growing…
KBR Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced today that KLH Australia-Browse Joint Venture (KLH Australia), a joint venture (JV) between KBR, Leighton Contractors and John Holland, has been awarded a FEED contract by Woodside for the company’s Browse Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)…
Solvay SA (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has acquired a fluorspar mine in Chiprovtsi, Bulgaria from the N&N Group. This strategic acquisition reinforces the vertical integration of Solvay’s high added-value fluorinated specialty polymers and fluorinated special chemicals production at a competitive cost.…
Eric Byres, CTO of Byres Security Inc. (British Columbia, Canada; www.tofinosecurity.com), Andrew Ginter, CTO of Abterra Technologies (www.abterra.ca) and Joel Langill, CSO of SCADAhacker.com announce today the release of their joint White Paper “How Stuxnet Spreads — A Study of…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has announced that it signed a contract in Dec. 2010, with the Saudi Industrial Investment Group (SIIG) and Arabian Chevron Phillips Petrochemical Co. (ACP) to provide engineering, procurement and construction management services for…
LanzaTech (Auckland, New Zealand; www.lanzatech.co.nz) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Posco (Seoul, South Korea; www.posco.com), one of the largest steel producers in the world, covering the implementation of its gas fermentation technology (CE, December 2010, p. 12;…
The Flexitallic Group (Flexitallic; Houston) has launched its new website www.flexitallic.com. The company specializes in the design, manufacturing and global distribution of high performance industrial sealing products that operate in process industries including oil, power, petrochemical, chemical, pharmaceutical and nuclear…
Myriant Technologies (Quincy, Mass.; www.myriant.com) and Davy Process Technology (DPT; London; www.davyprotech.com), a Johnson Matthey company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) covering the use of succinic acid as a bio-derived feedstock for the production of butanediol, tetrahydrofuran and gamma-butyrolactone.…