The Society for Biological Engineering (SBE; New York; http://bio.aiche.org/) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) has announced the inaugural winners of the D. I. C. Wang Award for Excellence in Biochemical Engineering. The inaugural recipients of the award,…
Sales of chemicals at the wholesale level rose in February by 1.6%, to $9.8 billion, according to data from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) that are found in ACC’s latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report. Chemical inventories…
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) says it is going to release a new version of IUCLID 5 (International Uniform Chemical Information Database; http://iuclid.eu) in late May 2012 and, subsequently, a new release of REACH-IT, the information technology infrastructure that underpins…
BASF India Ltd. (Mumbai; www.basf.com) will invest €150 million to set up a new chemical production site at the Dahej Petroleum, Chemicals and Petrochemicals Investment Region (PCPIR), located on the west coast of India in Gujarat. The new site will…
On 31 March 2012, the Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj visited North Rhine-Westphalia accompanied by a major business delegation during a five-day state visit to Germany. On this occasion ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH (Uhde; Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) and the representatives of the…
KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) says it will design and construct an ethylene furnace for Ineos Olefins & Polymers USA (Ineos) that upon commissioning will provide the highest achievable ethylene yields in the industry. The executed agreements with Ineos include provision of…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract valued at about $300 million, by Williams Olefins, LLC for a petrochemicals expansion project in Geismar, Louisiana. The scope of the award includes the license and basic engineering for the…
The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) says that its subsidiary Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG) has been awarded a contract valued at more than $30 million to design and supply a selective catalytic…
Ube Industries, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.ube-ind.co.jp) says it is adding a production facility for battery separators to the Sakai Factory located in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture. The move comes in response to growing demand for separators in lithium-ion batteries used…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS; Washington, D.C.; www.dhs.gov) announced a new series of Safety Act (Support-Anti-terrorism by Fostering Effective Technology) marks that may be placed on marketing materials by authorized companies to identify qualified anti-terrorism technologies. The new…