Foster Wheeler Ltd., (Clinton, N.J.; www.fwc.com), a global engineering and construction contractor and power equipment supplier, announced that its South African subsidiary, Foster Wheeler South Africa, has been awarded a front-end-engineering design (FEED) contract. The contract was awarded by Sasol…
Cognis (Monheim, Germany; www.cognis.com), a global specialty-chemicals supplier, has announced that the sale of Pulcra Chemicals to Fashion Chemicals GmbH & Co. KG (Fashion Chemicals) has been formally completed. Pulcra Chemicals, which supplies process chemicals to the textile and leather…
GEA Procomac, a company of GEA Group AG (Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com) specialized in aseptic filling technology for PET containers, has received an order for a low acid aseptic filling line from Nestlé USA to be delivered in 2009. The order…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) plans to build a new facility for producing hydrogen peroxide, which is used primarily in the production of cellulose and paper, at the Triunfo petrochemical complex near Porto Alegre, in southern Brazil. An investment…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced that it was awarded a $1.5-million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop economically viable technology to stabilize pyrolysis oil from second-generation biomass feedstocks for use as…
InEnTec LLC (www.inentec.com) and Lakeside Energy LLC (www.lakesideenergy.com) have announced a new partnership to facilitate construction of commercial-scale Plasma Enhanced Melter (PEM) gasification facilities that will convert hazardous waste and chemical residuals into useful chemical products. Under the terms of…
Driven by the propitious business climate in the cosmetics, and biodegradable plastics end-use industries, the world market for lactic acid is projected to reach 259 thousand metric tons by the year 2012. Development of new technologies, emergence of new end-use…
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com), via its Swiss subsidiary PanGas AG (Dagmersellen, Switzerland; www.pangas.ch), is to build a new air separation plant in Muttenz, in the Swiss canton of Basel-Land, for around 68 million Swiss francs (44 million euros).…
Honeywell has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Callidus Technologies (Tulsa, Oklahoma; www.callidus.com), a manufacturer of custom-designed and fabricated industrial combustion products, including refinery burners and controls, flares and thermal oxidizers. The agreement is subject to customary closing conditions, including…
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) has entered into two new contracts for the on-site supply of gases to the companies Ningbo Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. and Hanwha Chemical Corp. (HCC) in Ningbo in eastern China. Under the agreements,…