As part of the strategic reorientation of Ferrostaal AG (Essen, Germany; www.ferrostaal.com), a global provider of industrial services in plant construction and engineering, the company is streamlining its organization. The Executive Board will be reduced from five to four members.…
BASF’s Catalyst Div. (Iselin, N.J.; www.basf.com) has announced a new round of capital investment projects to increase its production capacity and further enhance its global manufacturing operations for copper and copper-chrome catalysts. These investments are aimed at improving catalyst-manufacturing efficiency…
In the spring of 2011 Uhde Inventa-Fischer (Domat/Ems, Switzerland; www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) and Alco-Naphtha JSC started up the first state-of-the-art, energy-efficient MTR plant for the production of high-quality PET (polyethylene terephthalate) to be built on European soil. The production plant is located…
NDC Infrared Engineering (Irwindale, Calif.; www.ndcinfrared.com), a leading manufacturer of web gauging equipment for the plastics, rubber, nonwoven and extrusion-coated businesses, has acquired the IRM Group (Alleur, Belgium; www.irmgroup.info), a leading manufacturer of high-technology measuring systems for the metals industries.IRM will become…
Wholesale sales of chemical rose by 2.3% in June, following a 0.9% decline in May, the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) says in its most recent Weekly Chemical and Economic Trends report. Compared to a year ago, wholesale…
Lonza (Basel, Switzerland; www.lonza.com) is investing CHF 5.8 million ($8 million) in a formulation plant for Meta metaldehyde. This will enable Lonza to supply its own formulations, allowing the company in the future to serve the market not only with…
The U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE; Washington, D.C.; www.energy.gov) has released a report — 2011 U.S. Billion-Ton Update: Biomass Supply for a Bioenergy and Bioproducts Industry (bioenergykdf.net/content/billiontonupdate) — detailing U.S. biomass feedstock potential nationwide. The report examines the nation’s capacity…
The earth’s population has grown by more than five billion people over the past century, and in the next four decades, it will grow by two billion more. With a booming population comes the urgent need for sustainable sources of…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.) announced today that Lummus Technology has been awarded a contract by Ningbo Haiyue New Material Co. for the license and engineering design of a grassroots propane dehydrogenation unit to be built in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province,…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill: www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries (Orpic) has selected UOP/Foster Wheeler technology to help process heavy oil and expand fuel and petrochemicals production at a petroleum refinery in…