At the end of 2008, Rotex Europe (Wavre, Belgium; www.rotex.com) has signed with Tenova Takraf Italy a contract for two machines Megatex XD. The new urea plant these two machines are dedicated to will be the largest single train ammonia-urea…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has been awarded a hydrogen supply contract from Dynamic Fuels, LLC, a joint venture between Tyson Foods, Inc. and Syntroleum Corp. Dynamic Fuels will use H2 supplied by Praxair to produce renewable fuels from non-food-grade…
The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich; www.dow.com) and Süd-Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.sud-chemie.com) today announced an agreement to research alternative routes to produce chemicals to help reduce dependence on traditional sources of oil and gas. The collaborative research aims to…
GEA Group AG (Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com) has further strengthened its Refrigeration Division through the acquisition of Eurotek Engineering Ltd, a leading engineering company in the food freezing equipment business headquartered in Norwich, U.K. In 2007, Eurotek generated sales of approximately…
Sulzer Chemtech Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzerchemtech.com) is pleased to announce the acquisition of Freeze Tec B.V. (Raamsdonksveer, Netherlands) as of January 1, 2009. Freeze Tec is specialized in the field of melt suspension crystallization for chemical and food applications with…
AkzoNobel (akzonobel.com) has agreed to divest its non-stick coatings business to privately owned, U.S.-based company Whitford Worldwide. Financial details have not been disclosed. The deal involves AkzoNobel's global cookware and bakeware activities, which operate out of five sites in the…
Samsung Petrochemical Co. (SPC; Seoul; www.samsung.com), the leading Korean producer of purified terephthalic acid (PTA), and Process Systems Enterprise (PSE; London; www.psenterprise.com), providers of gPROMS modeling technology and process optimization services, have signed an agreement for joint development of new…
MIP Technologies AB (Lund, Sweden; www.miptechnologies.com) has entered into a collaboration with Sanofi-aventis (Paris, France; en.sanofi-aventis.com) for the development of new molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) for the analysis of pharmacologically active peptides from plasma samples. MIP Technologies will use a…
Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com/energy) received a contract from its Indian licensee Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL) for the supply of components for two steam turbine-generators. The customer is the state-owned energy utility National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd. (NTPC). The…
KSB AG (Frankenthal, Germany; www.ksb.de) has opened a training center at its Frankenthal location. The newly created rooms offer the perfect setting for operations engineers, consultants, installation contractors and service professionals to become acquainted with the KSB’s automation products. Those…