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North America Pittcon 2008. The Pittsburgh Conference (Pittsburgh, Pa.). Phone: 412-825-3220; Web: pittcon.org New Orleans, La. Mar. 1 – 7 SPAR 2008. Spar Point Research LLC (Danvers, Mass.). Phone: 978-774-1102; Fax: 978-774-4841; Web: sparllc.com Houston, Tex. Mar. 3 – 5…

You & Your Job: When it Becomes Necessary to Fire An Employee

These guiding principles will help you prepare properly and avoid making this task more unpleasant than it has to be If you ever find yourself in a management position, inevitably at some point you will have to terminate an employee.…

People: Who’s Who

Atlas Material Testing Technology (Chicago, Ill.) elects Rick Weiler president and CEO. Stephen Pegler joins BEM Systems (Phoenix, Ariz.) as senior engineer. Albert N. Crawford is named vice president of sales by Charkit Chemical Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.). Kelly Semrau is…

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Economic Indicators: Business News

Plant Watch Oxea Increases Alcohol Capacity in North America January 24, 2008 — Oxea is expanding its oxo alcohols capacity at its production site in Bay City, Texas. The production capacity for propionaldehyde and n-propanol will be increased 10% by…

February’s Crossword Puzzle      

Across 1.     M and A challenge 7.     Location technology 9.     Exhibitors’ offering 12.    Centers of attention 13.    Virus 14.    Home of the girl from Ipanema 15.    To view laser-scanning output 16.    Survey company 18.    Critical business survival…

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Dow and Aker Kvaerner selected for PP project in China

PetroChina Petrochemical Co. has selected Dow’s (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) UNIPOL polypropylene (PP) process technology for its new 300,000-m.t./yr PP facility, and Aker Kvaerner (Oslo, Norway; www.akerkvaerner.com) will provide the extended process design package and technical advisory services.   The plant…

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Three mobile reactors for hazardous chemistry  

On the international chemicals markets, hazardous chemistry and custom synthesis for the production of active pharmaceutical ingredients and their precursors represent an attractive combination. Besides the additional capacities, however, customers are also calling for an increasing flexibility regarding the dimensioning…

Sulzer Chemtech & Kühni collaborate on LLE

As of February 1, the Swiss firms Sulzer Chemtech Ltd. (Winterthur; www.sulzerchemtech.com) and Kühni AG (Allschwil; www.kuhni.ch) will work closely together in the field of extraction. The goal of this co-operation is to develop comprehensive solutions for the complex task…

Turkish Wastewater-Treatment Plant Increases Capacity and Lowers Costs with Siemens’  Program

 Siemens has received a 5.5 million euros award to provide a wastewater-treatment system and associated piping, instrumentation and engineering to the Inegol Industrial Zone in Inegol, Turkey.  The system will increase the capacity of Inegol’s wastewater-treatment plant, while lowering costs.…

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Linde receives contract from BASF for H2 plant

The technology group The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) has signed a contract with BASF (www.basf.com) to construct a large hydrogen plant for their facility in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Linde will be handling the basic and detail engineering and materials procurement…