The Huafon Group — the biggest producer of polyurethanes in China — has chosen Uhde Inventa-Fischer (Berlin, Germany and Domat/Ems, Switzerland; www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) as supplier for its latest project, a PA-66 plant to be built in Zhejiang Province, People’s Republic of China.…
The HART Communication Foundation (Austin, Tex.; www.hartcomm.org) is pleased to announce that the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) has approved the WirelessHART specification as a European National Standard (EN 62591). CEN released the standard to CENELEC, the European Committee for…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been appointed to an alliance that will design and build one of the world’s largest advanced tertiary wastewater treatment plants for Melbourne Water in Melbourne, Australia. The plant, which will use an advanced treatment process,…
Xebec Adsorption Inc. (Xebec; Montreal, Canada; www.xebecinc.com), a provider of biogas-upgrading, natural-gas and hydrogen-purification solutions for the clean energy market, announced today that it has received its first order for a landfill gas upgrading system from Huiming EP&CE Co., Ltd,…
IDEX Corp. (Northbrook, Ill.; www.idexcorp.com) has acquired OBL, S.r.l. (Milan, Italy; www.obl.it), a leading provider of mechanical and hydraulic diaphragm pumps. OBL provides polymer blending systems and related accessories for a diverse range of global industries, including water, waste water, oil-and-gas,…
Sulzer Metco AG (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzermetco.com) has acquired the DLC activities of Bekaert (Kortrijk, Belgium; www.bekaert.com). The acquisition, which includes Bekaert’s diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings and racing activities, will deliver significant technological benefits to Sulzer and Bekaert customers, as both…
Novasep (Pompey, France; www.novasep.com), a leading supplier of manufacturing solutions to the life science industries, and instrAction (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.instraction.com), a manufacturer of innovative chromatographic stationary phases for API (active pharmaceutical ingredient) purification processes, today announced that they have entered…
Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com) has been awarded a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by Summit Texas Clean Energy LLC to provide coal gasification and power block technology for the Texas Clean Energy Project (TCEP). The new polygeneration IGCC…
Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com), is planning to design, install, and operate a pilot plant for treating a slipstream (1 MW equivalent) at the Tampa Electric Big Bend Station to demonstrate Postcap technology for post-combustion CO2 gas capture. The primary…
Babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Energy, Inc., (B&W NE; Lynchburg, Va.) and Bechtel Power Corp. (San Francisco, Calif.: www.bechtel.com)have entered into a formal alliance to design, license and deploy the world’s first commercially viable Generation III++ small modular nuclear power plant.…