This company has released Version 8.6 of its Agile Engineering Design System software, an integrated suite of computer-aided engineering (CAE) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) programs that is specialized for turbomachinery. This integrated system enables users to optimize designs based on…
The Smart Coupling product line features this company's IIoT Smart Tag Solution, which brings increased levels of connectivity by providing on-demand information to assist with streamlining and shortening new product installation, service maintenance, troubleshooting and changeover times throughout the product's…
Granuleworks is a simulation software for granulated materials that is based on discrete element analysis (DEM). Granuleworks can analyze various complex granule behaviors, including mixing, conveying, filling and compaction, as well as enable simulation of the motion of powder particles…
Part of a long and lustrous history, this year marks the 46th event for the Turbomachinery Symposium and the 33rd event for the International Pump Users Symposium. In another noteworthy milestone, the 2017 Turbomachinery & Pump Symposia (TPS) will be…
The Turbomachinery and Pump Symposia (TPS; www.tps.tamu.edu) officially begins today (Dec. 12) with a welcome address by Jody Elliott, president of domestic oil and gas at Oxy Oil & Gas. Taking place at the George R. Brown Convention Center in…
AkzoNobel’s (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) Specialty Chemicals business is investing more than €4 million to increase production capacity in Sweden for its Levasil CC-branded product line of patented surface-modified colloidal silica. The expansion will help meet growing customer demand and will…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced that its new plant in the Pukou Economic Development Zone (PKEDZ), Nanjing, eastern China, has come on-stream to supply ultra-high purity gases to its customer in the park. The facility also provides liquid…
Sekisui Chemical Co. (Osaka, Japan; www.sekisuichemical.com) and carbon recycling company LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.; www.lanzatech.com) have made significant progress on a waste-to-chemicals platform converting municipal solid waste (MSW) to new products. Today, many MSW streams are incinerated or super-heated to produce…
Wood Group plc (Aberdeen, Scotland; www.woodgroup.com) is providing GSK Vaccines GmbH (GSK), part of GlaxoSmithKline Group, with engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for a new biotech facility to be built in Marburg, Germany. The new multi-million dollar contract…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) has been awarded a contract by Canada Kuwait Petrochemical Corp. (CKPC) to provide front-end engineering design (FEED) services for a proposed greenfield, integrated propane dehydrogenation and polypropylene facility located in Sturgeon County, Alberta,…