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Turbomachinery & Pump Symposia kicks off in Houston
The Turbomachinery and Pump Symposia (TPS; www.tps.tamu.edu) officially begins today (Dec. 12) with a welcome address by Jody Elliott, president of domestic oil and gas at Oxy Oil & Gas. Taking place at the George R. Brown Convention Center in…
AkzoNobel expands production capacity for colloidal silica in Sweden
AkzoNobel’s (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) Specialty Chemicals business is investing more than €4 million to increase production capacity in Sweden for its Levasil CC-branded product line of patented surface-modified colloidal silica. The expansion will help meet growing customer demand and will…
Air Products brings ultra-high-purity gas plant onstream in Nanjing
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced that its new plant in the Pukou Economic Development Zone (PKEDZ), Nanjing, eastern China, has come on-stream to supply ultra-high purity gases to its customer in the park. The facility also provides liquid…
Sekisui and LanzaTech progress with waste-to-chemicals project in Japan
Sekisui Chemical Co. (Osaka, Japan; www.sekisuichemical.com) and carbon recycling company LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.; www.lanzatech.com) have made significant progress on a waste-to-chemicals platform converting municipal solid waste (MSW) to new products. Today, many MSW streams are incinerated or super-heated to produce…
Wood Group awarded EPCM contract from GlaxoSmithKline for German biotech facility
Wood Group plc (Aberdeen, Scotland; www.woodgroup.com) is providing GSK Vaccines GmbH (GSK), part of GlaxoSmithKline Group, with engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for a new biotech facility to be built in Marburg, Germany. The new multi-million dollar contract…
Jacobs wins FEED contract from Canada Kuwait Petrochemical Corp.
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) has been awarded a contract by Canada Kuwait Petrochemical Corp. (CKPC) to provide front-end engineering design (FEED) services for a proposed greenfield, integrated propane dehydrogenation and polypropylene facility located in Sturgeon County, Alberta,…
Suez wins €43-million contract to build water plant in Cameroon
SUEZ (Paris, France; www.suez-environnement.fr) has been tasked with building a production plant for drinking water in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, on behalf of Chinese company SINOMACH-CMEC. This contract, worth €43 million for SUEZ, includes pumping of raw water into…
Oxea to begin dioctyl terephthalate production in Europe
Oxea GmbH (Monheim am Rhein, Germany; www.oxea-chemicals.com), a part of the Oman Oil Company, has entered into a cooperation with a German partner to produce dioctyl terephthalate (DOTP), a general purpose non-ortho-phthalate plasticizer, in Europe. By 2019, Oxea will initially…
Lonza opens plastics applications laboratory in Georgia
The Coatings and Composites business of Lonza Group (Basel, Switzerland; www.lonza.com) announced that it is opening its plastics laboratory at the Lonza Innovation and Technology Center located in Alpharetta, Ga. This new laboratory enables Lonza to deepen its understanding of…
Thermo Fisher Scientific acquires emissions-monitoring assets from Eptek
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Waltham, Mass.; www.thermofisher.com) announced it has completed the acquisition of certain assets from EPTEK Technology Co. Ltd. and several related entities with offices in Taiwan and mainland China. The assets acquired include volatile organic compound…