The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2010 to: Richard F. Heck, University of Delaware (Newark, Del.) Ei-ichi Negishi, Purdue University (West Lafayette, Ind.) Akira Suzuki, Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan) "for…
Chiyoda Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.chiyoda-corp.com/en) today announces that Tokuyama Corp. (Tokyo; www.tokuyama.co.jp) group has awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for a polycrystalline silicon plant in Malaysia to Chiyoda in collaboration with Chiyoda Sarawak Sdn. Bhd. (Sarawak, Malaysia)…
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2010 to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, both at University of Manchester, U.K. “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene”. A thin flake of ordinary…
The technology group The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) and Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com), a market leading provider of integrated catalyst solutions, today announced they have been selected as technology suppliers for the syngas treatment and methanation unit…
Pulsafeeder Inc. (Rochester, N.Y.; www.pulsa.com) has acquired PeriFlo, Inc. (Loveland, Ohio; www.periflo.com) a leading provider of peristaltic pumps for the industrial and municipal water and wastewater markets. An innovative manufacturer, PeriFlo offers a complete family of peristaltic hose pumps for…
Bartec GmbH (Bad Mergentheim, Germany; www.bartec.de) has acquired Technor Safe Ex AS (Stavanger, Norway), one of the key markets for European oil-and-gas production, Technor heads its domestic market in the sale of explosion-proof equipment and systems. Typical applications for the…
GEA Mechanical Equipment (www.geaquipment.com), a segment of GEA Group AG (Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com) has received two major orders for the delivery of fuel systems for a gas-turbine power plant in Morocco and of decanters for the municipal wastewater clarification plant…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) has been awarded two lump sum contracts by Valero Refining Co. and Diamond Shamrock Refining Co. (both part of the Valero group) for two hydrogen plants at their refineries in Memphis, Tenn. and McKee, Tex. The…
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When it comes to a geographical concentration of chemical engineers and chemical process facilities, few cities in the world rival that of Houston, Texas. Given that, it might be surprising that this month will essentially mark the first time in…