Oliver Prato becomes managing director of Beumer Sarl (Paris, France). David Allen, a chemical engineering professor at the University of Texas (Austin), is appointed to the Environmental Protection Agency (Washington, D.C.) Science Advisory Board. Iriss, Inc. (Sarasota, Fla.) elects Tim…
Plant Watch Wacker and Dow Corning start production at integrated silicone site November 14, 2008 — Wacker Chemie AG and Dow Corning Corp. started production in the first stage of their new pyrogenic silica and siloxane plants in Zhangjiagang, China.…
Hoerbiger Holding AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.hoerbiger.com), plans to acquire Altronic, Inc. (Girard, Ohio) — a leading provider of ignition systems for gas engines. Hoerbiger is active throughout the world in the fields of compression technology, automation technology and drive technology;…
Edwards (Crawley, U.K.; www.edwardsvacuum.com) today announced that it will jointly develop a perfluorocarbon (PFC) gas-abatement system with Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL; www.tel.com) — the PA-01E for etch equipment. The new gas abatement system will be available mid-year 2009. The PA-01E…
In the first quarter of 2009 BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will start up a new plant for the production of up to 3,500 metric tons of piperazine chips per year at its integrated Antwerp Verbund site. This will significantly…
Following the completion of antitrust proceedings by end of September, the EU Commission has approved the acquisition of innotec GmbH (Schwelm, Germany) by Siemens AG (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) without imposing any conditions. This international vendor of digital engineering software and…
Bayer MaterialScience (Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayermaterialscience.com) plans to build another chlorine recycling plant at the Bayer Integrated Site Shanghai (BISS). The process for this new unit is based on the catalytic oxidation of hydrogen chloride using oxygen. The new technology has…
Today, Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) and Dow Corning Corp. (Midland, Mich.; www.dowcorning.com) officially started production in the first stage of their new pyrogenic silica and siloxane plants in Zhangjiagang, China. The new plants are key facilities of an…
AkzoNobel (Amersfoort, Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) is to increase monochloroacetic acid (MCA) production capacity at its Taixing site in China to 60,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr). “Our investment demonstrates our strong commitment to serving the growing Chinese market,” said Lars Andersson,…
Yesterday, DuPont announced that a new titanium tetrachloride purification unit has begun operations at the New Johnsonville, Tenn., titanium dioxide site. Most of the production of the high purity chemical will be used in the growing titanium metal manufacturing industry.…