Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) will build a new and fully integrated polysilicon production site near the city of Cleveland, Tenn. The chemical company announced the decision today. With an annual capacity of 15,000 metric tons (m.t.), the production…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from CPC Corp. (CPC; Taiwan) to design and license Jacobs' proprietary EuroClaus technology for a desulfurization unit as part of the Ta-Lin refinery expansion project in Kaoshiung, Taiwan. Officials…
ComberS.r.l., (Colzate, Bergamo, Italy; www.comber.it) the Italian manufacturer of NutscheFilter - Dryers, vertical Pan and horizontal Paddle drying systems, will be part of the Heinkel Group (Besigheim, Germany; www.heinkel.de) effective December 2010 and operating under the name of Comber Process Technology S.r.l. Commercial operations have been…
The U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE; Washington, D.C.; www.energy.gov) announced today that a $428-million, five-year contract has been awarded to the Babcock & Wilcox Conversion Services, LLC (B&WCS; Lynchburg, Va.; www.babcock.com), for operation of the depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) facilities…
Aveva Solutions Ltd. (Cambridge, U.K.; www.aveva.com) launched its new AVEVA IntelliLaser technology at SPAR Europe 2010 (Amsterdam; December 7–8). As an extension to the AVEVA NET information management solution, the new IntelliLaser product enables owner operators of industrial process plants…
A new version of the eChemPortal has been launched yesterday by OECD. It provides free public access to information on more than 600,000 records on chemical substances. By launching the new eChemPortal, the OECD (Paris; www.oecd.org) has reached a new…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Petronas (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; www.petronas.com) today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to undertake a joint feasibility study to produce specialty chemicals in Malaysia, a move that would extend the two parties’ existing business…
The Italian firm Comber S.r.l (Colzate, Italy; www.comber.it), maker of batch equipment for solid-liquid separation and vacuum drying, is now a part of the Heinkel Group (www.heinkel-group.com; Hamburg, Germany). Effective in December 2010, Comber will operate as Comber Process Technology…
WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) has been awarded a contract for the engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction (EPC) of the field facilities at the Husky Oil – Sunrise Energy Project. The Sunrise steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) plant site is…
The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) plans to increase ethane cracking capabilities on the U.S. Gulf Coast over the next two to three years, and improve its ethane cracking capabilities by 20–30% in this timeframe. In addition, Dow announced…