Hillenbrand, Inc. (Batesville, Ind.; www.hillenbrand.com) has agreed to acquire the Coperion Group (Stuttgart, Germany; www.coperion.com) . The transaction is anticipated to close by December 31, 2012, subject to regulatory approvals. Hillenbrand is a strategic global diversified industrial company, publicly listed…
Uhde Inventa-Fischer (Domat/Ems, Switzerland; www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) is to build a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plant for its Indian customer JBF Industries Ltd., a leading producer of polyester granules. The plant with a total name plate capacity of 432,000 metric tons (m.t.) per…
ITT Corp. (White Plains, N.Y.; www.itt.com) announced today it has signed an agreement to acquire Joh. Heinr. Bornemann GmbH (Bornemann Pumps; Obernkirchen, Germany; www.bornemann.com), a leading global provider of highly engineered pumps and systems for the oil and gas industry.…
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) composite leading indicator (CLI) for August shows that most major world economies will continue to see weakening growth in coming quarters, according to OECD data that was included in the latest Weekly…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) say that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCm) contract by Lanxess Butyl Pte. Ltd. for a new neodymium-polybutadiene (Nd-PBR) rubber plant…
OCI Construction Group has selected ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH (Uhde; Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) for an engineering and procurement contract for the construction of one of the world’s largest single-train liquid fertilizer plants to be built in the U.S. Uhde was awarded…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) says that Indura, its South American joint venture, has opened a new 84-ton/d industrial gas plant producing liquid oxygen, nitrogen and argon in Puerto Varas, Chile. The new facility, which will include a cylinder…
Novasep (Pompey, France; www.novasep.com) announces today an investment of €30 million to build in Europe what will be the world's largest chromatography plant used for the production of a large volume commercial API (active pharmaceutical ingredient). The plant will be…
ASTM International (West Conshohocken, Pa.; www.astm.org) has launched a new initiative aimed at understanding the real environmental impact of products, from raw material extraction to disposal and recycling. "The ASTM International program will provide scientifically based, quantifiable information about…
SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded a contract by the Chuquicamata Division of Codelco Chile to provide overall project management, as well as detailed engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services, for the upgrade of the concentrators…