Wonderware (Lake Forest, Calif.; us.wonderware.com), a business unit of Invensys Plc. (London; www.invensys.com), today announced the release of the Wonderware IndustryPack for Water & Wastewater designed to enhance overall productivity in facility operations for the water and wastewater industry. This…
Alfa Laval (Lund, Sweden; www.alfalaval.com) has received an order for the Packinox plate heat exchanger from a petrochemical company in China. The order value is about SEK 60 million, and delivery is scheduled for 2009. “During the second quarter this…
After commissioning a new wafer production facility at the so-called “Jena Site 2” in mid-April, Wacker Schott Solar GmbH (Jena, Germany; www.wackerschott.de) is continuing its production-site expansion. The company announced this today during a visit by Jena mayor Albrecht Schröter.…
La Seda de Barcelona (LSB; Spain; www.laseda.es) has awarded the project of environmental services for the industrial plant Artenius Sines, a subsidiary of the Spanish multinational located in Portuguese city of Sines, to the French company Veolia Environnement (www.veolia.com). The…
S-Oil Corp. (Seoul, Korea; www.s-oil.com/eng) has selected Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) ParamaX Technology Suite for the No.2 Aromatics complex at the Onsan refinery in South Korea. The new 1,180,000-m.t./yr plant will add capacities of 900,000 m.t./yr paraxylene and 280,000 m.t./yr…
Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz GmbH (CAC; Germany; www.cac-chem.de) draws on its longstanding collaboration with Rohöl-Aufsuchungs AG (RAG; Vienna, Austria) and lands two new contracts for erecting underground storage facilities for natural gas. The one contract envisages the expansion of the existing Haidach…
Invensys Process Systems (Plano, Tex.; www.ips.invensys.com) has been awarded a contract from BP Chemicals Ltd. to build an Operating Training Simulator (OTS) to be used for the transfer of process knowledge to operators of their chemical manufacturing facilities. The training…
A consortium of water leaders announced the formation of The Water Policy Institute. Chaired by former EPA administrator and New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, the Institute will address water-related issues and provide information to the public through its website. …
Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France www.axens.net) has been awarded a design package for the new, 400,000 bbl/d, world class, full-conversion refinery in Jubail, Saudi Arabia. The refining and petrochemical complex is scheduled to start-up in 2012. Among the units that are being…
The Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF; www.chemheritage.org) — a library, museum and center for scholars — is expanding its headquarters with the opening of a $20-million integrated museum and conference space in Philadelphia's historic First National Bank. Ten years in the…