Business & Economics
Repsol to expand petrochemical complex in Sines
Today, Repsol's (Madrid, Spain; www.repsolypf.com) CEO, Antonio Brufau, Portugal’s Prime Minister, and Minister of Economy José Socrates and Manuel Pinho, have announced the initiation of the Sines Petrochemical Complex expansion project. This important project is one of company's main worldwide…
Compressed air program cuts plant energy costs up to 40%
Norgren Inc. (Chicago, Ill.) and Pneu-Logic Corp. (Portland, Org.) today announced a joint initiative to provide what they say is the chemical process industries' (CPI) first intelligent compressed air management program offering plant-wide analysis, realtime process control and pneumatic system…
Outotec to deliver iron-ore sinter plant to India
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has won an order from Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) for the design and delivery of an iron-ore sinter plant for SAIL’s Rourkela Steel Plant in Orissa. Outotec will implement the turnkey plant project…
People: Who’s Who
ABB (Zurich, Switzerland) appoints Joseph Hogan CEO. Cal Dooley becomes president and CEO of the American Chemistry Council (Arlington, Va.). The Automation Federation (Research Triangle Park, N.C.) names Paul B. Goodson managing director. Judy Nabers is elected CFO of Container…
Economic Indicators: Business News
Plant Watch Emerson wins contract to automate water-treatment-chemicals plant in China August 20, 2008 — Nalco Industrial Services Co. has selected Emerson Process Management to be the main instrument vendor for a new water-treatment-chemicals plant in the Nanjing Chemical &…
BASF makes offer to acquire Ciba
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) plans to acquire Ciba Holding AG (Basel, Switzerland), a leading specialty chemical company, and will make a public takeover offer to Ciba’s shareholders. BASF will pay CHF 50.00 in cash for each nominal share in…
September Letters
2008 Perkin Medal Honors a Pioneer in CFC and HCFC Aternatives On the 18th of this month, the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI; London; www.soci.org) awards its 2008 Perkin Medal to Dr. Ian Shankland, director of technology for Honeywell’s Fluorine…
CB&I awarded contracts for world-scale petrochemical complex in India
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com), through Lummus Technology, has been awarded contracts with an overall value in excess of $45 million by Essar Gujarat Petrochemicals Ltd. for technology licenses and basic engineering related to a major grassroots petrochemicals complex in…
Solvay’s vinyls affiliate increases PVC production
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) announces today that its Thai affiliate Vinythai has increased its polyvinyl chloride (PVC) production capacity in its plant in Map Ta Phut (Thailand) by 70,000 metric tons (m.t.) to 280,000 m.t./yr, to accompany the growth…
The Linde Group enters into JV with Sinopec subsidiary
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) has entered into a joint venture (JV) with Sinopec Fujian Petrochemical Company Ltd. (FPCL), a subsidiary of China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec), for the long-term supply of industrial gases to customers in the…