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Editor’s Page: The Economic Outlook — 2008 and Beyond  

As 2007 draws to a close, the usual year-end flurry of economic analysis is hitting consumer and trade press alike. For this magazine’s global audience, the bottom line depends on where you’re standing and whether you’re looking back or forward.…

Calendar: January – February 2008

North America North American Environmental Field Conference & Exhibition. The Nielsen Environmental Field School, Inc. (Las Cruces, N.M.). Phone: 888-965-5026; Fax: 575-532-5978; Web: envirofieldconference.com Tampa, Fla. Jan. 14 – 16 13th Annual Transportation, Distribution and Security Conference. Chemical Week Conferences…

December Who’s Who  

Ioannis I. Valvis joins BASF (Florham Park, N.J.) as pharmaceutical industry director for its Intermediates business. ConocoPhillips (Houston, Tex.) promotes Stephen R. Brand to senior vice president of technology. CorrBan Technologies, Inc. (Houston, Tex.) names Jeanne P. Haner vice president…

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Economic Indicators: Business News

Plant Watch Clean gasoline technologies planned for SPRC in Thailand November 14, 2007 — The Star Petroleum Corp. (SPRC) has selected Axens’ technologies for its clean gasoline project in Rayong, Thailand. SPRC will install a 22,640-bbd/d grassroots unit that will…

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HPD to supply technologies for brine-production facility

HPD (Plainfield, Ill.; www.veoliawater.com HPD — a Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies company — has been awarded the supply of crystallization and evaporation equipment to TETRA Technologies, Inc. for their new facility located near El Dorado, Arkansas. The new plant…

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Solvay Indupa will produce bioethanol-based vinyl in Brasil

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announces today that the Board of its affiliate Solvay Indupa has approved a further $135-million-investment program to expand and increase the competitiveness of its vinyls production plant of Santo Andre, Brazil. This second stage of…

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Rockwell/Dassault to integrate digital factory and plant operations

Rockwell Automation (www.rockwellautomations.co.uk), a leading global provider of industrial automation power, control and information solutions and Dassault Systèmes (www.3ds.com), a world leader in 3D and product life cycle management (PLM) solutions, recently announced that they have signed a memorandum of…

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KBR lands contract for large NH3 plant in Venezuela

KBR (Houston, Tex.; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a $57-million contract by MAN Ferrostaal AG (MFS) to provide basic and detailed engineering services for an 1,800 m.t./d ammonia plant for Petroquímica de Venezuela, S.A. (Pequiven). The plant will be the first…

Dow Chemical and Petrochemical Industries Company of Kuwait announce JV

The Dow Chemical Co. (Dow; Midland, Mich., USA; www.dow.com) and Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC; and Kuwait City, Kuwait; www.pic.com.kw), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corp. (KPC; www.kpc.com.kw), today announced plans to form a 50/50 joint venture that will…

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Producing cleaner-burning fuels from CO2

UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop,com), a Honeywell company, announced today that it will partner with the University of Southern California's (USC) Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute to develop and commercialize new technology to transform carbon dioxide into clean-burning alternative fuels.…