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EdeniQ & Logos seek DOE integrated bio-refinery funding
EdeniQ, Inc. (Visalia, Calif,; www.edeniq.com) and Logos Technologies, Inc. (Arlington, Va.; www.logos-technologies.com) announced today the signing of a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE; Washington, D.C.; www.energy.gov) to receive up to $20.5 million in federal cost share under…
Outotec to deliver flotation technology for First Quantum Minerals
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with the First Quantum Minerals Limited Projects Office (Perth, Australia) for the delivery of flotation, thickening and automation technologies for several of their operations around the world. The total value of the contracts exceeds…
Emerson opens new global testing facility
Emerson Process Management (St. Louis, Mo.; www.emerson.com) officially unveiled its new $30-million testing facility on May 11 in Marshalltown, Iowa. Known as the Emerson Innovation Center--Fisher Technology, the 136,000-ft2 facility is used for testing of large-scale control valve assemblies and…
Lonza selects Nansha for new vitamin B3 plant
Lonza Group Ltd. (Basel, Switzerland; www.lonzagroup.com) has selected Nansha, its leading high-tech life-science site in China, as location for its new vitamin B3 manufacturing site. The investment, which was approved by the board of directors of Lonza Group Ltd, will help…
Buhler & Sigma-Aldrich ink nanoparticles agreement
The Buhler Group (Uzwil, Switzerland; www.buhlergroup.com) and Sigma-Aldrich (www.sigma-aldrich.com) have signed an agreement in which research volumes of nanoparticle dispersions from Buhler will be sold worldwide exclusively by Sigma-Aldrich. These products are dispersions of nanoscale inorganic particles in water and organic…
First Meteor EO/EG process facility starts up in China
Sinopec-SABIC (Tianjin) Petrochemical Co., Ltd (SSTPC), a joint venture between Sinopec and SABIC, relies on Meteor (Most Effective Technology for Ethylene Oxide Reaction) Process from The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow; Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) to produce ethylene oxide (EO) / ethylene…
Thai Paraxylene to license ExxonMobil’s PxMax technology
ExxonMobil Chemical Technology Licensing LLC (EMCTL) and ExxonMobil Catalyst Technologies LLC (EMCT; www.exxonmobilchemical.com) today announced that Suphon Tubtimcharoon, managing director of Thai Paraxylene Company Ltd. (TPX; www.thaioil.co.th/product/petrochemical_en.php), and Gary T. Schmidt, vice president of EMCTL and President of EMCT, signed…
Outotec Kaldo furnace technology for Boliden
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with Boliden AB (Stockholm, Sweden; www.boliden.com) for the delivery of Kaldo furnace technology to Boliden’s Rönnskär copper smelter in Sweden. The delivery will be a part of Boliden’s electronic-scrap recycling facility…
Celanese acquires LCP and PCT product lines from DuPont Performance Polymers
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) today announced that its Advanced Engineered Materials business has completed a transaction to acquire two product lines, DuPont Zenite liquid crystal polymer (LCP) and Thermx polycyclohexylene-dimethylene terephthalate (PCT), from DuPont Performance Polymers. “This acquisition will…
Lanxess and TSRC to create rubber JV in China
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) and TSRC Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan www.tsrc.com.tw) will enter into a 50:50 joint venture (JV) in Greater China called Lanxess-TSRC (Nantong) Chemical Industrial Company Ltd. The two companies are jointly investing $50 million in a new plant…