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Aspen Tech acquires rights to operator training simulator software from Inprocess Technology and Consulting Group
Aspen Technology, Inc. (Bedford, Mass.; www.aspentech.com) announced that it has acquired rights to Operator Training Simulator (OTS) framework software from Inprocess Technology and Consulting Group of Barcelona, Spain. Inprocess, developer of the OTS software, is a consulting service company supplying technological services to owner-operators…
BASF acquires waterproofing company in Mexico
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has signed an agreement to acquire Grupo Thermotek, a leading waterproofing systems supplier based in Monterrey, NL, Mexico. The transaction is subject to approval by relevant authorities and is expected to close by mid-2017. Both…
GE Additive establishes Customer Experience Center in Munich
GE Additive (www.geadditive.com) is establishing a “Customer Experience Center” in Munich, Germany – the first of several GE Additive centers planned worldwide to accelerate the use of additive manufacturing. The Munich center will allow current and potential customers to experience…
Virent appoints Stacey Orlandi as CEO
Virent, Inc. (Madison, Wis.; www.virent.com) announced the appointment of Stacey Orlandi as the company’s chief executive officer. Orlandi will lead efforts to commercialize Virent’s technology for the large scale production of renewable fuels and chemicals and replace Lee Edwards, who…
Arkema starts up expanded PVDF production lines in Changshu
Arkema (Colombes, France; www.arkema.com) has just successfully brought onstream new Kynar polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) capacities on its Changshu platform near Shanghai. With this 25% increase in its production capacities in China, Arkema, which runs PVDF production plants on 3 continents…
Messer to build the largest industrial-gas facility in Vietnam
On 17 April 2017, Messer (Bad Soden/Frankfurt, Germany; www.messergroup.com) and Hoa Phat Steel, the largest steel producer in Vietnam, signed a contract in Hanoi for the construction of two plants for the production of industrial gases. The contract is to…
Air Products’ India JV to Build Six New Air Separation Plants
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) today announced that INOX Air Products Ltd. (Mumbai), its joint venture (JV) in India, will build six new air separation units (ASUs) which will serve the growing onsite and merchant liquid industrial gases market…
Keppel Infrastructure to develop a gasification facility in Singapore
Keppel Infrastructure Holdings Pte Ltd. (Singapore; www.kepinfra.com) has signed an agreement with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) to develop, own and operate a state-of-the-art gasification facility on Jurong Island, Singapore. The agreement marks the culmination of a competitive selection…
WorleyParsons wins FEED contract for Biosynthetic Technologies’ first commercial base-oils facility
WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) has been awarded a contract by Biosynthetic Technologies (BT; Irvine, Calif.) to perform FEED design and engineering services for a new synthetic base-oil facility that will commercialize BT’s unique technology converting natural oils into…
BASF invests in sustainable production for high performance silica adsorbents in Germany
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) today announced the mechanical completion of a significant investment at its adsorbents production site in Nienburg, Germany. Two new state-of-the-art dryers at the site support BASF’s long-term commitment to its customers and underline BASF’s corporate…