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Siemens to reorganize its water business
Siemens AG (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) has decided to reorganize its activities in the water business. The company intends to focus in the future on automation and drive solutions for the control of water applications for municipalities and industry. The Business…
Outotec to build the largest sewage-sludge thermal-treatment plant in Switzerland
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with the City of Zürich (represented by Entsorgung und Recycling Zürich), on the design and turnkey delivery of the largest and most advanced sewage-sludge thermal-treatment plant in Switzerland. Outotec's contract value…
UOP wins third license for MTO technology
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today the third technology license for its breakthrough methanol-to-olefins (MTO) technology, which converts methanol from coal into key plastics building blocks. China’s Shandong Yangmei Hengtong Chemicals Co. will use UOP’s…
Air Products supplying ASUs for copper-smelter project in Zambia
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has been awarded the contract to supply two oxygen plants at the site of a copper smelter being built in Zambia by Kansanshi Mining Plc. The scope of the agreement includes Air Products supply…
BASF building its largest European production plant for emissions catalysts in Poland
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is investing approximately €90 million in the first step to build a mobile emissions catalysts production facility in Åšroda ÅšlÄ…ska, a Special Economic Zone near WrocÅ‚aw, Poland. Construction of the new 40,000 square meter facility…
Uhde wins mega contract for fertilizer plants in the U.S.
ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH (Uhde; Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) has, through its U.S. business partner, Uhde Corporation of America (Pittsburgh, Pa.), been selected by CF Industries, one of the world's leading fertilizer producers, to provide engineering and supply services for two fertilizer…
Chesar to be a means to achieve chemical safety report compliance
Normal 0 The European Chemicals Agency’s (ECHA; Helsinki, Finland; echa.europa.eu) Chemical Safety Assessment and Reporting tool (Chesar) contains additional functionalities to assist registrants in carrying out their chemical safety assessments (CSAs). As a new functionality, the exposure estimation tool for…
EPA stays chemical manufacturing area sources rule
Normal 0 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a 60-day administrative stay of the Chemical Manufacturing Area Sources (CMAS) rule. Affected sources originally faced an imminent October 29 deadline to comply with the 2009 final rule, but with EPA…
Jacobs wins contract from PPL for sulfuric-acid plant expansion
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Paradeep Phosphates Ltd. (PPL) to provide project management consultancy (PMC) services for its sulfuric-acid plant expansion project in Paradeep, Orissa, India. Officials did not disclose the contract value,…
ZeaChem biorefinery to begin production of cellulosic ethanol by the end of 2012
Biorefinery developer ZeaChem Inc. (Lakewood, Colo.; www.zeachem.com) today announced that it has completed construction of its 250,000 gal/yr cellulosic ethanol biorefinery in Boardman, Oregon. The project was completed on budget and is expected to begin production of cellulosic ethanol by…