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Air Liquide to build ASU in China for steel producer
Air Liquide (Paris; www.airliquide.com) has signed another major long-term contract in the steel industry in China. It will invest about €40 million in Yichun, Heilongjiang Province (northeastern China), 350 km north of Harbin, Heilongjiang’s capital city, to supply Xilin Steel…
Fluor & B&W to market carbon-capture technology
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) and Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc., an operating unit of The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (Lynchburg, Va.; www.babcock.com) have formed a strategic alliance with Fluor’s Power Group to market and sell carbon-dioxide-capture systems…
Caloric to build 3rd H2-generation plant for Malaysia
Caloric Anlagenbau GmbH (Gräfelfing, Germany; www.caloric.com) has won the contract for a hydrogen expansion project in Malaysia. After successful operation of the first plant delivered by Caloric and started up in 2006 the customer chose again Caloric’s high efficient HC…
BMS acquires Artificial Muscle
Bayer MaterialScience LLC (BMS; www.bayermaterialscience.com), a subsidiary of Bayer AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayer.com) and part of the global Bayer MaterialScience business, has acquired Artificial Muscle, Inc. (AMI; Sunnyvale, Calif.). AMI is a pioneer and leader in the field of electroactive…
Lanxess to expand capacity of high-performance rubber
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has decided to expand the global capacity of its high-performance rubber Neodymium Polybutadiene (Nd-PBR). Lanxess will invest about €20 million to increase production by an additional 50,000 metric tons per year at its sites in Dormagen,Germany; Orange,…
DOE: $40 million to develop next-generation nuclear plant
U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu today announced selections for the award of approximately $40 million in total to two teams led by Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse Electric Co. and San Diego-based General Atomics for conceptual design and planning work for the…
Outotec to supply sinter plant to South Africa
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with South African Kalagadi Manganese Pty. Ltd. on the design and delivery of a new manganese sinter plant to be built in Hotazel in the country’s Northern Cape Province. The contract value is approximately…
Foster Wheeler lands CFB boiler contract for CO2-capture-development plant in Spain
Foster Wheeler AG (FW; Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has been awarded a contract by Fundación Ciudad de la Energía (CIUDEN), an institution created by the Spanish Government, for the design and supply of a…
Wacker: new production facility for pharma proteins
Wacker Chemie AG Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) officially opened a new production facility for pharmaceutical proteins (biologics) in Jena today. The new plant is part of the company’s investment program to enlarge its biotech operations. The expansion enables Wacker to accommodate…
Uhde’s Prenflo process to be part of joint R&D project BioTfueL in France
BioTfueL is a new joint project launched by five French partners and Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu). BioTfueL integrates the various technology stages of the so-called biomass-to-liquid (BTL) chain with the aim of developing and integrating all the stages of…