Uhde Inventa-Fischer GmbH (Berlin, Germany; www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) has entered into a contract with the Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) to provide the technology license and the basic engineering for the second PET (polyethylene terephthalate) resin expansion of its manufacturing affiliate, Arabian…
Brooks Instrument (Hatfield, Penn.; www.brooksinstrument.com) has announced its acquisition of certain assets of Celerity’s Instrumentation Div. Celerity designs and manufactures precision instruments and advanced gas and liquid delivery solutions, including thermal mass flow devices, for the semiconductor industry where it…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will shut down the Styropor plant (EPS, expandable polystyrene) at its site in Tarragona, Spain. The closure is scheduled for August 2009. As a direct consequence of the plant closure and due to the current…
Telvent (Madrid, Spain; www.telvent.com) announced it is partnering with Longwatch, Inc. (Norwood, Mass.; www.longwatch.com) to integrate components of the Longwatch Surveillance System with the Telvent OASyS DNA supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system. This alliance provides oil, gas, electric,…
The Technical University of Denmark (DTU; www.dtu.dk), the Technische Universität München (TUM; www.tum.de) and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e; www.tue.nl) are starting a graduate school in Sustainable Energy Technologies. All three have a strong international reputation in this field. It…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and F.A.R. Fabbrica Adesivi Resine S.p.A (F.A.R.; Cologno Monzese, Italy;www.gruppofar.it/far/eng/index.htm), have agreed to cooperate for the production, marketing and sale of the polyalcohol trimethylolpropane (TMP). This cooperation is expected to take effect in July 2009.…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; www.epa.gov) has awarded Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.us) its New Chemicals Program P2 Recognition Project Award for the company’s Exolit OP 560, a new-generation non-halogenated flame retardant. The product is made by Clariant’s Pigments &…
Dresser Masoneilan (Houston, Tex.; www.dresser.com) was chosen by Saipem SpA (Milan, Italy) to supply control valves for the Qatar Fertilizer Co. (Qafco). Located south of Doha, Qatar, the Qafco industrial complex is quickly growing into the world’s largest ammonia and…
Polaris (Quimper, France; www.polaris.fr). global leading expert in nutritional lipids, has selected Seventure (Paris; www.seventure.fr) to increase its capital and fund its growth. Polaris was founded and is still led by Stephane Lozachmeur, CEO and Gildas Breton, CSO, two bright…
Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.biz) has been awarded a lump-sum turnkey contract by Qatar Petrochemical Co. (QAPCO), a subsidiary of Industries Qatar and Total Petrochemicals of France, to build a 300,000 tonne-per-year low-density polyethylene (LDPE) plant within the scope of…