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Oxea: Capacity expansion at Bay City plant
In a move to further optimize its value-adding chains and boost product availability, Oxea GmbH (Oberhausen, Germany; www.oxea-chemicals.com) has successfully increased its manufacturing capabilities for synthesis gas (syngas) at its Bay City, Texas plant by 10%. Syngas is the main…
Aveva acquires the LFM software division of Z+F UK
Aveva (Cambridge, U.K.; www.aveva.com) today announced the acquisition of Z+F UK Ltd. (Manchester, U.K.; www.zf-uk.com). The strategic acquisition includes only the division of Z+F that produces the LFM software suite. This follows a long and successful partnership with Z+F UK…
ABB expands its pulp-and-paper offerings
ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) has completed its acquisition of Lorentzen & Wettre from Assa Abloy AB. Lorentzen & Wettre manufactures equipment for quality control, process optimization and test instrumentation for the pulp-and-paper industry. The acquisition enhances ABB’s position as a…
Evonik establishes JV in Russia to produce feed amino acid L-lysine
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) and Russian company RusBiotech International have established the joint venture (JV) Russkie Biotechnologii for manufacturing L-lysine in Russia by means of a biotechnological process. Vassily Golubev, governor of the Rostov-on-Don region, and Vadim Varshavsky,…
Certified Safety Specialists announces name change
Certified Safety Specialists today announced that it has simplified the company name to reflect customer preferences. They now will be known as CertifiedSafety. The company also will be changing its web and e-mail addresses to reflect the change. The old www.gocss.net…
Caloric supplies H2 for polysilicon production in Taiwan
The hydrogen demand for a new polysilicon facility being built in Taiwan will be covered with units from Caloric Anlagenbau GmbH (Gräfelfing, Germany; www.caloric.com). With this contract Caloric establishes itself as a competent and reliable partner for this growing industry,…
MHI and MC: Large-scale SNG project using low-rank coal in Indonesia
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; www.mhi.co.jp) and Mitsubishi Corp. (MC; both Tokyo, Japan; www.mitsubishicorp.com) have agreed with the Indonesian government to collaborate in a large-scale substitute natural gas (SNG) synthesis project utilizing Indonesia's abundant low rank coal (LRC) which is…
USDA awards $136 million in biofuels- and bioenergy-related R&D grants
The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA; Washington, D.C.; www.usda.gov) today announced five major grants that focus on developing biomass-derived fuels, in part for aviation. The research and development awards, which total $136 million over five years, are part of the…
Dow and K2 Pure start chlor-alkali facility at California site
The Dow Chemical Co. ((Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) and K2 Pure Solutions (K2 Pure; Pittsburgh, Calif.; www.k2pure.com) today celebrated the successful start-up of a new chlor-alkali plant at Dow’s Pittsburg, Calif. site. The new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility will produce bleach to…
BASF to sell fertilizer activities to EuroChem
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has signed a contract with EuroChem (Moscow, Russia; www.eurochem.ru), to sell its fertilizer activities in Antwerp, Belgium. BASF also plans to sell its 50% share of the joint-venture (JV) PEC-Rhin (Ottmarsheim, France) to EuroChem. The…