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French company DRT announces plans for U.S.-based biorefinery

DRT (Dax, France; www.drt.fr) a specialist in processing rosin and turpentine oil distilled from pine resin, has purchased land in Georgia, which marks the first step of its move across the Atlantic. To meet growing demand from international markets, and…

Emerson expands monitoring capabilities with IntelliSAW acquisition

Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.; www.emerson.com) has acquired IntelliSAW Inc., a leading provider of systems that protect electric-power transmission and distribution equipment by measuring and monitoring temperature, humidity and partial discharge using advanced sensor and analytic technologies. The IntelliSAW suite of…

Honeywell acquires research-chemicals business from Sigma-Aldrich

Honeywell (Morristown, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Seelze, Germany-based laboratory research chemicals business from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, Mo.; www.sigma-aldrich.com) for approximately  €105 million. The acquired Sigma-Aldrich business develops and manufactures high-purity research chemicals and other materials…

Total to use Axens process technology at La Mède biorefinery

Total S.A. (Paris; www.total.com) has selected Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) process technology, Vegan, for its first biorefinery, to be located at La Mède (France). The plant will produce 500,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of high-quality paraffinic biodiesel, treating primarily…

ThyssenKrupp receives order to build cement plant in Colombia

  ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com), the plant engineering and construction specialist of the ThyssenKrupp Group, has received an order to build a cement clinker production line from Cementos Argos, the biggest cement producer in Colombia and one…

Technip to supply hydrogen reformers for Petronas’ RAPID project in Malaysia

  Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) has been awarded by Tecnicas Reunidas a significant contract to supply three hydrogen reformers as part of the hydrogen production facility at Petronas’ Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID) project located in the state of…

Veolia to provide crystallization system for Compass Minerals potassium sulfate expansion

Compass Minerals (Overland Park, Kan.; www.compassminerals.com) has selected Veolia Water Technologies (Moon Township, Pa.; www.veoliawaterstna.com) to provide the HPD Crystallization equipment necessary to expand production of its potassium sulfate product at its facility near Ogden, Utah, in the U.S. The…

Air Liquide to design cryogenic system for experimental fusion-reactor project

Air Liquide’s (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed a new contract with ITER-India for the design and manufacturing of 19 cryogenic lines for the ITER project. This latest contract comes after two earlier ones, signed in 2012 and in 2013, bringing the…

Cytec selects Fluor to provide EPCM services for Wales adhesives expansion

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Te.; www.fluor.com) announced that Fluor Ltd., its U.K. operation, was selected by Cytec Industries Inc. for the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) of the expansion of its high-performance adhesives manufacturing facility in Wrexham, North Wales. Fluor…

Badlands licenses four PE reactor lines in North America using Univation process technology

Badlands NGLs, LLC (Denver, Colo.; www.badlandsngls.com) and Univation Technologies, LLC (Houston; www.univation.com), a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) announced that Badlands has licensed Univation Technologies’ Unipol PE Process for four polyethylene (PE) reactor lines, representing…