Alstom (Paris, France; www.alstom.com) has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with StatoilHydro on behalf of the partners of the European CO2 Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM) for a chilled ammonia (carbonate) CO2 capture plant at TCM in Norway.…
Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) announces the start-up of an additional gas phase reactor at its Schwechat plant in Austria that will enhance its ability to produce superior high-flow materials for the automotive and packaging sectors. The new four-reactor…
Nghi Son Refinery & Petrochemical LLC (NSRP) has awarded Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) the basic engineering design contracts for some of the units of the new 200,000 bbl/d petroleum refinery that is to be constructed in Thanh Hoa province located…
High-performance elastomer seals specialist, Precision Polymer Engineering, Ltd. (PPE; Blackburn, U.K.; www.prepol.com) has completed a three-year, £5-million, expansion of its manufacturing, sales administration, materials research and training facilities in Blackburn. The expansion doubles the size of PPE’s factory to 6,000…
Brooks Instrument (Hatfield, Penn.; www.brooksinstrument.com) has announced its acquisition of certain assets of Celerity’s Instrumentation Div. Celerity designs and manufactures precision instruments and advanced gas and liquid delivery solutions, including thermal mass flow devices, for the semiconductor industry where it…
Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) and the Danish Technological Institute (www.dti.dk) have received 1-million euros from the Danish Energy Agency for a project aiming to turn bioethanol into an economic and sustainable replacement of fossil fuels for diesel vehicles.…
Uhde Inventa-Fischer GmbH (Berlin, Germany; www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) has entered into a contract with the Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) to provide the technology license and the basic engineering for the second PET (polyethylene terephthalate) resin expansion of its manufacturing affiliate, Arabian…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will shut down the Styropor plant (EPS, expandable polystyrene) at its site in Tarragona, Spain. The closure is scheduled for August 2009. As a direct consequence of the plant closure and due to the current…
Telvent (Madrid, Spain; www.telvent.com) announced it is partnering with Longwatch, Inc. (Norwood, Mass.; www.longwatch.com) to integrate components of the Longwatch Surveillance System with the Telvent OASyS DNA supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system. This alliance provides oil, gas, electric,…
The Technical University of Denmark (DTU; www.dtu.dk), the Technische Universität München (TUM; www.tum.de) and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e; www.tue.nl) are starting a graduate school in Sustainable Energy Technologies. All three have a strong international reputation in this field. It…