Business & Economics
Bosch to take over boiler manufacturer Loos
The Bosch Thermotechnology division (Stuttgart, Germany; www.bosch.com) plans to take over Loos Deutschland GmbH (Gunzenhausen, Germany), as well as its subsidiaries and investments outside Germany. The agreement to acquire 100% of the shares was signed in Stuttgart on April 7,…
Fluor selected for SaskPower carbon capture engineering
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced today that it was awarded front-end engineering for CO2 capture for the SaskPower Boundary Dam Integrated Carbon Capture and Sequestration Demonstration project in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada. The contract value for the first quarter award…
AspenTech launches release 7.1 of aspenONE
Aspen Technology, Inc. (Burlington, Mass.; www.aspentech.com), a leading provider of software and services to the process industries, today introduced batch process development innovations for the pharmaceutical and specialty chemical industries. The innovations in the new 7.1 release of aspenONE software…
Anhydro biofuel technology for Dong Energy
When the United Nations convenes its 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen, Inbicon A/S (Fredericia, Denmark; www.inbicon.com) — the technology company of Dong Energy — will showcase its biomass-to-ethanol conversion and energy-integration at the new 1.4 million-gallon-per-year demonstration plant. Anhydro (Søborg, Denmark;…
Dow announces divestiture of Morton Salt
The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow; Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) has announced that Rohm and Haas, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow, has entered into a definitive agreement to sell the stock of Morton International, Inc., the salt business of Rohm and…
Lonza awarded ‘Potent Compound Safety Certification’
Lonza Group Ltd.’s (Basel, Switzerland; www.lonza.com) facility for antibody drug conjugates (ADC) in Visp, Switzerland, was recently certified by SafeBridge Consultants, Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.; www.safebridge.com) as competent and proficient in the safe handling of highly potent active pharmaceutical ingredients…
NOAA raises flame-retardants concern to U.S. coastal ecosystems
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; www.noaa.gov) scientists, in a first-of-its-kind report issued today, state that polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), chemicals commonly used in commercial goods as flame retardants since the 1970s, are found in all U.S. coastal waters and…
Dow completes acquisition of Rohm and Haas
The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) announced that it has completed its acquisition of Rohm and Haas, following a high-profile legal dispute over Dow's January 23rd decision not to close the deal once the appropriate regulatory approvals were in…
Siemens acquires Elan Software Systems
Siemens Industry Sector (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com/industry) is expanding its industrial portfolio by acquiring Elan Software Systems SA (Toulouse, France), an international software supplier for Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. This step will enable Industry Automation…
Achema maintains influence
Longtime readers of this magazine may notice that the April cover theme marks an exception to a rule that has been fairly well established for awhile now. Topics on the cover of Chemical Engineering typically reflect one of the practical,…