VACUUBRAND has updated our oemvacuumpump.com website. This site is home to a wealth of technical reference information on our pumps, calculators to assist in pump selection, and white papers. You can also read about our work in a variety…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) announced that it has started up its carbon dioxide purification and liquefaction plant at Delaware City Refining Company’s facility in Delaware City, Delaware. The 450-ton-per-day plant is producing food and beverage quality liquid carbon dioxide…
Asahi Glass Co. (AGC; Tokyo; www.agc.com) has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of CMC Biologics, a world-leading biologics Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (“API”) manufacturer with major investors including Monitor Clipper Partners and European Equity Partners, for…
Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzer.com) signed a binding agreement to acquire Wärtsilä’s Vessel Internal Electrostatic Coalescer (VIEC) business. The VIEC business is based in Asker, Norway. VIEC’s patented technology separates oil from water in a highly efficient manner and it…
Linde AG (Munich, Germany; www.the-linde-group.com) and Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) announced that the companies intend to combine in a merger of equals under a new holding company through an all-stock transaction. The companies have signed a non-binding term sheet…
Wacker Biosolutions, the life sciences and biotechnology division of the Wacker Group (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com), is acquiring a large-scale fermentation plant from Antibióticos de León SLU (ADL) in Spain. Today, the two companies announced the signing of the contract of…
Sound levels in a plant or in a lab are often high enough to be distracting, and sometimes they are high enough to create health and safety concerns for workers in the immediate area. We've published a noise level calculator…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced that Chevron (China) Chemicals Co. (Chevron Oronite) has selected Fluor to perform front-end engineering and design (FEED) work for a manufacturing facility in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China. Fluor booked the undisclosed contract value in the…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafwen, Germany; www.basf.com) is planning its first manufacturing plant in Myanmar in 2017. Subject to Myanmar regulatory approvals, the plant to be located in Myanmar’s commercial capital, Yangon, will be designed to produce tailor-made construction chemical solutions for…
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo, Japan; www.sdk.co.jp) and SK Materials Co., Ltd. (SKM; www.sk-materials.com), of South Korea, has concluded an agreement to establish a joint corporation which is to produce and sell high-purity monofluoromethane gas (CH3F) to be used in…