Business & Economics
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…
Calendar
North America 37th Turbomachinery Symposium. The Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M University (College Station, Tx.). Phone: 979-845-7417; Fax: 979-845-1835; Web: turbolab.tamu.edu Houston, Tx. Sept. 8 – 11 LogiChem 2008. Worldwide Business Research (New York, N.Y.). Phone: 888-482-6012; Fax: 646-200-7535; Web:…
August Letters
Receivers in Compressed Air Systems June, Cover Story Part 2, Compressed Air: Your Most Expensive Utility, pp. 39 – 43: This is a very good article. I want to add a thought about the current practice of specifying receivers. When…
Economic Indicators: Business News
Plant Watch Metso to supply mining equipment to Anglo American-MMX in Brazil July 1, 2008 — Metso Minerals will supply crushing, screening and feeding equipment to Anglo American-MMX for its Minas Rio Project located in the Minas Gerais state in…
Engineering Practice: A Lessons-Learned Knowledge Management System for Engineers
An organizational lessons-learned system facilitates the transfer of knowledge from one project team to another Lessons learned is a method of collecting the unique and important knowledge gleaned from experience. While most engineers have heard of this often cited, even…