Business & Economics
Hydrogen-generating plant for Ukraine
Caloric Anlagenbau GmbH (Gräfelfing, Germany; www.caloric.com) has won a contract to supply a hydrogen plant in the Ukraine based on Caloric’s steam-methane-reforming technology. Caloric will provide engineering and equipment for a new H2 plant and the corresponding distributed control system,…
AkzoNobel to sell stake in Pakistan PTA activities
AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, Netherlands; www.AkzoNobel.com) has agreed to divest its 75% stake in the pure terephthalic acid (PTA) activities of its Chemicals Pakistan business to Korean company KP Chemical Corp. (KPC). The holding in Pakistan PTA Limited — which is listed…
Mitsubishi Rayon completes its acquisition of Lucite International
Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.mrc.co.jp) completed its purchase of Lucite International Group Ltd. of the U.K., on May 28, 2009. The total acquisition cost was approximatley $1.6 billion. The acquisition of Lucite International will make Mitsubishi Rayon into…
HSC adds new polysilicon production capacity
The Hemlock Semiconductor Group (HSC; Hemlock, Mich.; www.hscpoly.com), which includes two Dow Corning joint ventures, has started up a new 8,500 metric tons (m.t.) polycrystalline silicon (polysilicon) production facility at its Hemlock, Mich. location. This new capacity, which has been…
Mustang awarded control system modernization contract at ConocoPhillips San Francisco refinery
Mustang (Houston), part of international energy services company John Wood Group PLC (“Wood Group”), has been awarded a contract by ConocoPhillips for a distributed control system (DCS) modernization project at its San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo, Calif. The project scope…
Silicon-crystal production expands in Jena
WackerSchott Solar GmbH (Jena, Germany; www.wackerschott.de), a joint venture between Wacker Chemie AG (Munich) and Schott Solar AG (Alzenau), officially commissioned a new factory building in Jena today. The building will be used to produce solar-grade silicon crystals. After a…
Caloric lands second CO2-capture contract
Caloric Anlagenbau GmbH (Gräfelfing near Munich, Germany; www.caloric.com) has signed the second contract for the supply of a carbon dioxide recovery unit using aMDEA-solvent within the last 12 months, based on its license granted by BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com).…
Cognis opens affiliate in India
Cognis GmbH (Monheim, Germany; www.cognis.com) has opened an affiliate in Mumbai, India. As of today, Cognis India will be a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Cognis Group, and will operate under the name of Cognis Specialty Chemicals Pvt. Ltd. Cognis first…
Intrinsically safe I/O subsystem
Invensys Process Systems (IPS; Plano, Tex.; www.ips.invensys.com) has teamed with Pepperl+Fuchs Inc. (Twinsburg Ohio; www.am.pepperl-fuchs.com) to offer seamless integration of the Pepperl+Fuchs intrinsically safe I/O interface product lines with IPS' I/A Series distributed control system technology. With built-in barriers and…
OSIsoft PI System to incorporate CEP Technology from Microsoft
OSIsoft (San Leandro, Calif.; www.osisoft.com) is incorporating advanced low latency Complex Event Processing (CEP) technology from Microsft Corp. (Redmond, Wash.; www.microsoft.com) into its PI System. Complex event processing platform from Microsoft captures data from system-level, application-level and external events and…