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Brooks Instrument acquires Key Instruments
Brooks Instrument (Hatfield, Pa.; www.brooksinstrument.com), a flow measurement and control provider, has acquired Key Instruments, Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Key Instruments is a flowmeter manufacturer that offers precision-machined acrylic, molded-plastic, glass-tube and electronic flowmeters, as well…
AutomationML Organization founded
In order to give the AutomationML standard a formal basis, seven companies and institutes founded the AutomationML Organization as industrial consortium on April 8th, 2009, at the site of Zuhlke in Eschborn, Germany. Representatives of ABB, Daimler, Fraunhofer IITB, NetAllied…
Ineos moves forward with waste-to-energy CHP plant
Further to the announcement today that Viridor Laing (Greater Manchester) Limited has achieved financial close on the Private Finance Initiative waste and recycling contract with Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority, Ineos ChlorVinyls (www.ineos.com) is able to announce that it has…
Choren supplies coal-burner technology to China
Choren Components GmbH, a part of the Choren Group (Freiberg, Germany, www.choren.com) is currently supplying modern burner technology and pressure-bearing equipment for coal processing to the People’s Republic of China. The burners, each weighing up to 1.6 metric tons (m.t.),…
Bosch to take over boiler manufacturer Loos
The Bosch Thermotechnology division (Stuttgart, Germany; www.bosch.com) plans to take over Loos Deutschland GmbH (Gunzenhausen, Germany), as well as its subsidiaries and investments outside Germany. The agreement to acquire 100% of the shares was signed in Stuttgart on April 7,…
Fluor selected for SaskPower carbon capture engineering
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced today that it was awarded front-end engineering for CO2 capture for the SaskPower Boundary Dam Integrated Carbon Capture and Sequestration Demonstration project in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada. The contract value for the first quarter award…
AspenTech launches release 7.1 of aspenONE
Aspen Technology, Inc. (Burlington, Mass.; www.aspentech.com), a leading provider of software and services to the process industries, today introduced batch process development innovations for the pharmaceutical and specialty chemical industries. The innovations in the new 7.1 release of aspenONE software…
Anhydro biofuel technology for Dong Energy
When the United Nations convenes its 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen, Inbicon A/S (Fredericia, Denmark; www.inbicon.com) — the technology company of Dong Energy — will showcase its biomass-to-ethanol conversion and energy-integration at the new 1.4 million-gallon-per-year demonstration plant. Anhydro (Søborg, Denmark;…
Dow announces divestiture of Morton Salt
The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow; Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) has announced that Rohm and Haas, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow, has entered into a definitive agreement to sell the stock of Morton International, Inc., the salt business of Rohm and…
Lonza awarded ‘Potent Compound Safety Certification’
Lonza Group Ltd.’s (Basel, Switzerland; www.lonza.com) facility for antibody drug conjugates (ADC) in Visp, Switzerland, was recently certified by SafeBridge Consultants, Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.; www.safebridge.com) as competent and proficient in the safe handling of highly potent active pharmaceutical ingredients…