Business & Economics
BASF selects PAS as its global alarm management software provider
PAS (Houston, Tex.; www.pas.com), a global leader in alarm management software and consulting services for the process industries, announced today that BASF (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has selected its alarm management software for their enterprise-wide alarm management initiative. The agreement enables…
IBM and Cefic develop state-of-the-art REACH solution for chemical industry
Cefic, representing the European Chemical Industry, and IBM developed a state-of-the-art solution which will facilitate and ease the exchange of information between companies with the final goal to submit the registration dossiers as foreseen by the REACH Regulation. SIEFreach is…
IPS provides Arkema Rotterdam with wireless solution for operators
Invensys Process Systems (IPS; Plano, Tex.), a global technology, software and consulting firm, today announced that it has been selected by The Arkema Group, a leading multinational chemical manufacturer, to provide a wireless alarm-management, handheld solution for hazardous industrial areas.…
Bentley acquires Struc-Soft Inc., to expand services for structural engineering and plant applications
Bentley Systems, Inc. announced that it has acquired Struc-Soft Inc., a Montreal-based reseller and developer of 2-D and 3-D engineering, construction, and fabrication products for analysis, design, and drawing production. Struc-Soft has been the exclusive North American reseller of Bentley’s…
LyondellBasell’s technologies selected by Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industries
Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industries Inc. LLP, in which LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) is holding a minority interest, has selected LyondellBasell’s polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) technologies for three new plants that will have a combined capacity of 1,300,000 metric tons (m.t.)…
BMS starts construction of TDI plant in China
During the course of this year Bayer MaterialScience (BMS; Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayermaterialscience.com) plans to start construction of a state-of-the-art, world-scale facility for producing the polyurethane raw material toluene diisocyanate (TDI) at the integrated production site in Shanghai. The relevant Chinese…
CAC builds sodium hypochlorite plant in Moscow
Wassertechnik Essen GmbH, a subsidiary of the Austrian EVN AG, has commissioned Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz GmbH (CAC; Chemnitz, Germany; www.cac-chem.de) to plan and erect a sodium hypochlorite plant on the basis of chlorine membrane electrolysis. Designed to have an annual capacity…
Ineos completes acquisition of Seal Sands site from BASF
Following clearance from the European Commission on August 1, 2008, Ineos Nitriles has successfully completed its agreement to purchase the Seal Sands site on Teesside, U.K. from BASF plc, a subsidiary of the German chemical company BASF. The acquisition includes…
Konica Minolta and Universal Display Corp. announce OLED technology license agreement
Konica Minolta licenses Universal Display's proprietary UniversalPHOLED and other OLED technologies to make and sell energy-efficient white OLED lighting products with novel design features and environmental benefits Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc. (Konica Minolta), a company that leads the way…
Canada’s first low-CO2 power plant
Siemens’ (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com/energy) coal gasification technology has been selected for Canada’s first low-CO2 IGCC power plant. EPCOR Power Generation is planning to build an integrated gasification combined cycle power plant (IGCC) featuring carbon capture and storage in Genesee near…