Business & Economics
Uhde wins major polymer contract in Qatar
Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.biz) has been awarded a lump-sum turnkey contract by Qatar Petrochemical Co. (QAPCO), a subsidiary of Industries Qatar and Total Petrochemicals of France, to build a 300,000 tonne-per-year low-density polyethylene (LDPE) plant within the scope of…
Lanxess: Two acquisitions in Asia
Specialty chemicals group Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is underpinning its long-term growth strategy in the BRIC countries with two acquisitions in Asia. Lanxess subsidiary Lanxess India Private Ltd will acquire the chemical businesses and assets of stock market listed…
Strategic partnership for MEMS-based products
Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG in (Reinach, Switzerland; www.endress.com) and Integrated Sensing Systems, Inc. (ISSYS; Ann Arbor, Mich.; www.mems-issys.com) today announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership. The objective of this agreement is to collaboratively develop and commercialize advanced sensing…
Endress+Hauser expands its production in Indiana
Klaus Endress addresses guests and employees at the inauguration ceremony on June 4, 2009. Photo: Dorothy Lozowski During this time of cutbacks, Endress+Hauser (Reinach, Switzerland; www.us.endress.com) showed its confidence in the American market by inaugurating a new multi-million dollar production…
Solvay upgrades & expands operations in Brazil
Solvay S.A. (Brussels; www.solvay.com) announced today that Solvay Indupa successfully concluded its three-year, $150-million investment program to upgrade and expand the operations at its Santo André plant in Brazil by starting up a new membrane chlor-alkali unit (MCA) associated with…
BASF to supply Sorbead for large gas-treating plant
The Catalysts division of BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will provide a total of 2,000 tons of its Sorbead H and WS for the world’s largest gas dehydration and hydrocarbon removal plant based on adsorption technology, located at the Portovaya…
ABB delivers PV solar power plant solution
ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) has completed delivery and commissioning of the 1-MW Totana photovoltaic (PV) power plant located in the region of Murcia in Spain. In a year, Totana produces 2.2 GWh of grid-quality electric power and displaces some 1,350…
Hoerbiger acquires Gala compressor business
Effective June 1, the Hoerbiger Group (Zug, Switzerland, www.hoerbiger.com) acquired the compressor business of Gala Precision Technology Private Ltd. (Thane, India), as part of a share deal. Gala Precision Technology Private Ltd., India is a leading manufacturer of valves and…
Aker Solutions granted engineering license in China
Aker Solutions ASA (www.akersolutions.com) has received its engineering license from the Chinese government authorities, granting the company’s subsidiary Aker Projects (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., permission to undertake engineering design for China-based projects in the chemical, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries. “We…
DSM acquires Biopract to enter biogas market
Royal DSM N.V. (Heerlen, Netherlands; www.dsm.com), has acquired privately held Biopract GmbH (Berlin, Germany). The acquisition will serve as an entry point for DSM into the promising biogas market, which is showing 15–20% growth per year. The acquisition has been…