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Hägglunds Drives acquires Rineer Hydraulics

Hägglunds Drives AB (Mellansel, Sweden; www.hagglunds.com) has signed an agreement to acquire the operations of the U.S. company Rineer Hydraulics Inc. for approx. $23 million. The acquisition will strengthen Hägglunds Drives’ product offering and position on the North American market.…

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Foster Wheeler to supply CFB gasifier for BTL pilot plant  

Foster Wheeler Ltd. (Hamilton, Bermuda; www.fwc.com) announced today that its Finnish subsidiary Foster Wheeler Energia Oy, part of its Global Power Group, has been awarded a contract by NSE Biofuels Oy Ltd. for a circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) biomass gasifier to…

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Technip awarded contract for H2 plant in Romania  

Technip (Paris, Framce; www.technip.com) has been awarded by Rominserv and Rompetrol Rafinare (both members of The Rompetrol Group), a lumpsum contract, worth approximately 40 million euros, for a hydrogen plant to be constructed at the Petromidia Refinery in Constana, Romania.…

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Solvay to power its Bernburg, Germany plant with secondary solid fuel 

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announced today that work has begun to build a refuse-derived fuel (RDF) power plant at its site in Bernburg, Germany, which is scheduled to supply energy for the production of sodium carbonate and hydrogen peroxide…

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PL Propylene to build large propane-dehydrogenation plant    

PL Propylene LLC, a PetroLogistics company (Houston, Tex.; www.petrologistics.com), announced today the commencement of a project to construct a 1.2 billion lb/yr propane-dehydrogenation plant to produce propylene. The facility will be located in the vicinity of the Houston Ship Channel…

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Sinclair to expand refinery in Tulsa with GEABloc

Only one month after the acquisition of GEA ViEX Inc. Canada (www.geagroup.com), the company has received a significant order for GEABloc custom-designed fully welded heat exchangers from the USA. The equipment will be used in various refinery processes at Sinclair…

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Süd-Chemie/Linde to develop production plants for second-generation biofuels  

Süd-Chemie AG (www.sud-chemic.com) and Linde Group (both Munich, Germany; www.linde.de) have agreed to co-operate on an exclusive basis to develop and market plants for the production of second-generation biofuels. This will involve a biotechnological process to extract fuels, such as…

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Wacker Dymatic opens new production plant for silicone emulsions in China

Wacker Dymatic, a joint venture of Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) and Dymatic Chemicals Inc. (Shunde, China), opened a new silicone emulsion plant in China. The facility, located in the Jiangsu Yangtze River Chemical Industrial Park, Zhangjiagang city (Jiangsu…

ONGC to produce aromatics with UOP Technology  

ONGC Mangalore Petrochemical—a venture jointly promoted by India's largest crude oil and natural gas producer, Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC; Dehradun, India; www.ongcindia.com), and Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemical Ltd. (MRPL; Mangalore, India; www.mrpl.co.in)—has chosen UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.;…

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BASF sells its Shreveport site

BASF Corp. (Florham Park, N.J.; www.basf.com) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its manufacturing facility in Shreveport, Louisiana and the related contract manufacturing business for finished pharmaceuticals to Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories (www.drreddys.com) an international pharmaceutical…