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Sulzer Chemtech opens sales and engineering office in Brazil  

Sulzer Chemtech Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzer.com) has opened an office in Brazil to better service its customers in the Brazilian market in the field of products and services for separation, reaction and mixing technology. The new office in Vinhedo near…

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Lewa-Nikkiso expands its presence in life sciences  

Lewa-Nikkiso America, Inc. (Holliston, Mass.; www.nikkiso.com) has recently acquired Integrated Process Technologies, Inc. (IPT), a Massachusetts-based company specializing in the engineering, design, and manufacture of high-purity process systems. IPT has a proven track record of delivering design-build projects for the…

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Axens and HTI to jointly promote ebullated-bed technology for upgrading heavy oil  

Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) has entered into a technology alliance with HTI, a subsidiary of Headwaters Inc (South Jordan, Utah; www.headwaters.com). The purpose of the alliance is to promote the combined use of Axens' and HTI's technologies to produce clean…

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Outotec collaborates with Global Oil Shale in the development of a concentration process for oil shale  

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) and Global Oil Shale Group Plc. (London, U.K.; www.globaloilshale.com) have agreed on collaboration in the development of a commercial-scale concentration process for kerogen, a mixture of organic material contained in surface mineable oil shale deposits.…

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Technip awarded contract for a PE-expansion project in Canada  

Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by NOVA Chemicals Corp. the detail engineering, and procurement services contract for the Polyethylene (PE) 1 expansion project located at their Joffre site near Red Deer in Alberta, Canada. The project includes the installation…

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UOP’s C3 Oleflex process selected for propylene plant in the U.S. Gulf Coast  

UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, has been selected to provide technology for the world’s largest on-purpose propylene production facility, located on the U.S. Gulf Coast. Ascend Performance Materials Operations LLC will use UOP’s C3 Oleflex process…

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BASF strengthens its enzyme technology footprint  

With three separate transactions, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany: www.basf.com) has strengthened its technology footprint in industrial enzymes, one of BASF’s identified growth fields: BASF has completed the acquisition of Henkel’s detergents enzyme technology. Additionally, BASF has entered into a research…

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Neste Jacobs and Global Oil Shale sign oil shale development and engineering agreement  

Technology, engineering and project management company Neste Jacobs Oy (Espoo, Finland; www.nestejacobs.com) and energy company Global Oil Shale Group PLC (GOS; Jersey, U.K.; www.globaloilshale.com) have signed a Strategic Oil Shale Development and Engineering Agreement to collaborate in oil shale processing…

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Meeting point for the CPI in China: AchemAsia opens in Beijing  

With 418 exhibitors, AchemAsia has opened in Beijing on Monday morning. Until Thursday, companies from 23 countries present on 6,500 m² the latest for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry as well as related sectors. The exhibition covers everything from laboratory…

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Lanxess opens first production facility for high-performance bladders in Brazil  

Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany: www.lanxess.com) is focusing on the megatrend of mobility also in Brazil. In Porto Feliz, the specialty chemicals company’s wholly-owned subsidiary Rhein Chemie has opened a new facility for high-performance bladders (curing bladders), which are used in…