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Novo Nordisk invests in new insulin-production plant in China

Novo Nordisk A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark; www.novonordisk.com) today announced a major investment in a new insulin production plant in Tianjin, China. The plant has been designated Novo Nordisk’s primary production base in the Asia Pacific region and will supply both China…

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SulphCo announces positive results from commercial-scale field trials

SulphCo, Inc. (Houston, Tex.; www.sulphco.com), a technology company with a patented ultrasound process to desulfurize crude oil, announced today, that in October field trials it successfully duplicated on a commercial scale the positive results recently produced in its Houston laboratory.…

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Outotec and Eesti Energia to form a JV for development of oil shale processing

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) and Eesti Energia (www.energia.ee) have agreed to form a joint company for the development and marketing of sustainable, energy-efficient and economically viable oil shale processing methods. Eesti Energia will have a majority 60% stake and…

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K-TEK to integrate ASI Instruments and form Solids Level group

K-TEK Corp., (Prairieville, La.; www.ktekcorp.com), a leading manufacturer of instrumentation for liquid-level measurement, has announced the integration of ASI Instruments to the corporation’s product lines. ASI Instruments specializes in level detection and measurement for dry-bulk solids. ASI Instruments will become…

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New Haldor Topsøe subsidiary in Latin America

To further strengthen its presence and services to clients in Latin America, Haldor Topsøe (www.topsoe.com), a supplier of heterogeneous cataysis and process supplies has opened a subsidiary in Argentina. The new subsidiary covers all Topsøe business areas and serves as…

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Foster Wheeler wins contract for wax expansion project in South Africa

Foster Wheeler Ltd., (Clinton, N.J.; www.fwc.com), a global engineering and construction contractor and power equipment supplier, announced that its South African subsidiary, Foster Wheeler South Africa, has been awarded a front-end-engineering design (FEED) contract. The contract was awarded by Sasol…

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Sale of Pulcra Chemicals is now formally completed

Cognis (Monheim, Germany; www.cognis.com), a global specialty-chemicals supplier, has announced that the sale of Pulcra Chemicals to Fashion Chemicals GmbH & Co. KG (Fashion Chemicals) has been formally completed. Pulcra Chemicals, which supplies process chemicals to the textile and leather…

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Economic Indicators: Business News

Plant Watch Oxea expands carboxylic-acids production, adds butyric acid October 14, 2008 — Oxea GmbH has decided to produce butyric acid at its North American production site in Bay City, Tex. The existing carboxylic-acids production plant will receive significant upgrading.…

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Chementator: Bringing the corrosion resistance of tantalum to off-the-shelf stainless-steel parts  

Tantaline (Lyngby, Demnark; www.tantaline.com) has developed a process that creates a surface alloy of tantalum on a metal substrate (typically stainless steel). As a result, the surface acquires the corrosion resistance of tantalum — the most corrosion resistant metal commercially available…

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Chementator Briefs

  Heavy crude UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) plans to do further development of its Catalytic Crude Upgrading (CCU) technology through an agreement with Brazil’s Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro) and Albemarle Corp. (Baton Rouge, La.). CCU is a process…