Business & Economics
Honeywell to acquire combustion equipment vendor Callidus Technologies
Honeywell has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Callidus Technologies (Tulsa, Oklahoma; www.callidus.com), a manufacturer of custom-designed and fabricated industrial combustion products, including refinery burners and controls, flares and thermal oxidizers. The agreement is subject to customary closing conditions, including…
IPS to supply control technology to world’s first H2 power plant
Invensys Process Systems (IPS; Plano, Tex.; www.invensys.com), a global technology, software and consulting firm, today announced that it has been selected by Enel to supply control and automation technology for the world’s first hydrogen-fuelled power plant, to be constructed in…
GTC Technology selected for large aromatics project at Rafo
Petrochemical Holding GmbH (Vienna, Austria), has chosen eight proprietary process technologies of GTC Technology (Houston, Tex.; www.gtchouston.com) — CrystPX, GT-BTX PluS, GT-BTX, GT-IsomPX, GT-TransAlk, GT-Aromatization, Pygas Hydrotreating, and Hydrodesulfurization — for a major petrochemical project in its 3 MM ton/yr…
Metso’s automation for renewable diesel plants
Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) will deliver comprehensive automation and safety solutions for two greenfield plants being built by Neste Oil Corp. in Singapore and in Rotterdam, Netherlands. As agreed with the customer, the values of the orders will not…
Solvay acquires ASCC in Egypt
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has entered into a final agreement for the acquisition of 100% of Alexandria Sodium Carbonate Company (ASCC) from Holding Company for Chemical Industries (HCCI), an Egyptian State-owned holding company. The operation is part of Solvay’s…
Wacker expands polysilicon production
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany) plans to construct a new polysilicon production plant at its Nunchritz site (Saxony, Germany) with a nominal annual capacity of 10,000 metric tons (m.t.). The first batch of polysilicon from this “capacity expansion phase 9”…
GEA invests in the future
GEA Group AG (Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com) has decided to implement a multi-year investment program for its Mechanical Separation Division comprising a total volume of around 160-million euros. Besides being among the most cycle-resistant divisions within the GEA Group, the Mechanical…
DuPont, Danisco JV breaks ground for biofuels facility
The DuPont cellulosic ethanol joint venture (JV), DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol LLC (DDCE; Itasca, Ill.; www.dupontdanisco.com), has broken ground for its first pilot-scale biorefinery and state-of-the-art biofuels research and development facility in Vonore, Tenn. The JV has partnered with the…
Calendar — November and December 2008 CPI Events
North America Pointwise User Group Meeting 2008. Pointwise (Fort Worth, Tex.). Phone: 817-377-2807; Fax: 817-377-2799; Web: pointwise.com Fort Worth, Tex. Nov. 5 – 6 Pack Expo International. PMMI (Arlington, Va.). Phone: 703-243-8555; Fax: 703-243-8556; Web: pei2008.packexpo.com Chicago, Ill. Nov. 9…
Who’s Who
Bill Decker is appointed president of Aquionics (Erlanger, Ky.). Robert Leisk joins Biokinetics, Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.) as senior vice president — international biopharmaceutical business development. Draegerwerk (Leubeck, Germany) names Ralf Drews president and CEO of its NAFTA Safety Division. Gelest,…