ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) has appointed Bazmi Husain as chief technology officer (CTO), effective January 1, 2016. Husain, an expert in power and automation who has been with ABB for more than 30 years, will report to CEO Ulrich Spiesshofer.…
Effective September 1, 2015, Hoerbiger Group (Zug, Switzerland; www.hoerbiger.com) will acquire internationally renowned explosion protection specialist IEP Technologies, LLC (Marlborough, Mass. ; www.ieptechnologies.com) from Sentinel Capital Partners (New York, N.Y.; www.sentinelpartners.com). This acquisition will make Hoerbiger one of the…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced that Egypt’s Alexandria National Refining & Petrochemicals Company (ANRPC) will use UOP technology and equipment as part of a $300-million, multi-year project to expand an existing, state-of-the-art gasoline production facility…
AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) is to invest more than €1.3 million to build a pilot plant for coating resins at its Performance Coatings site located in Felling, UK. The state-of-the-art facility will provide resin samples for product testing and…
One of the world’s leading polymer materials suppliers has a new identity. From September 1, 2015 Bayer MaterialScience is operating under the Covestro name. The company is now legally and economically independent, but will remain a 100 percent subsidiary of…
Camfil Air Pollution Control (APC; Jonesboro, Ark.; www.camfilapc.com) , a global manufacturer of dust, mist and fume collection equipment, reports that Christian Debus has been appointed as the new executive vice president in charge of worldwide operations. He will be…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has started up new production plants for C4-based products in the Marl Chemical Park, Germany. These were formally opened today in the presence of Hannelore Kraft, Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia, and Klaus Engel,…
Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark, www.topsoe.com) has signed an agreement with Increase Performance Inc. to acquire full ownership of the Furnace Manager Technology. The acquisition will be an important expansion of the technology and service offering to Topsoe’s global…
Amec Foster Wheeler (London, U.K.; www.amecfw.com) was awarded a front end engineering design (FEED) contract by Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical Company Ltd (BSR), a subsidiary of state-owned Vietnam National Oil & Gas Group (PetroVietnam), for their Dung Quat…
The board of directors of Myriant Corp. (Quincy, Mass.; www.myriant.com) an affiliate of PTT Global Chemical Public Company Limited (PTTGC), announced that Cenan Ozmeral will retire as Myriant's president and chief executive officer. Dr. Ozmeral will continue to serve as…