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Cepsa’s Canadian PTA business acquired by Indorama
Indorama Ventures Public Co. Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand; www.indorama.net) has signed an agreement to acquire 100% shareholding of the Montreal-based purified terephthalic acid (PTA) business of Cepsa Química SA, Cepsa Chimie Montréal s.e.c. Cepsa's plant is the only PTA facility…
Evonik expands specialty silicones production in Germany and China
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has announced plans to invest in the gradual increase in global production volume of specialty silicones. In Essen, the company is currently putting the expansion of a plant for the production of these special…
Rentschler commissions new 2,000-L single-use bioreactor
Rentschler Biotechnologie GmbH (Laupheim, Germany; www.rentschler.de), a leading contract manufacturing and development organization (CDMO) for biopharmaceuticals, announced today that its new 2,000-L single-use bioreactor has been put into operation. The new bioreactor, built and commissioned in only six months,…
MHI Mechatronics Systems receives orders for advanced wastewater-treatment technology
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Mechatronics Systems, Ltd. (MHI-MS), a group company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi-global.com), has received an order for wastewater treatment facilities employing its proprietary "two-phase activated sludge system," an advanced wastewater treatment technology, for…
Specialty chemical market volumes drop in February, ACC report says
U.S. specialty chemical market volumes fell 0.6% in February after a 1.0 decline in January, continuing the soft start to 2015, according to the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). “The…
Air Liquide process technology chosen for BASF’s U.S. gas-to-propylene project
Air Liquide Global E&C Solutions, the Engineering and Construction activity of Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has announced that it has been selected by BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) to supply their gas-to-propylene (GTP) project with Air Liquide’s MegaMethanol and…
Foundation of Lauda Scientific as an independent company
From March 1, 2015 the full subsidiary Lauda Scientific GmbH (Lauda-Königshofen, Germany; www.lauda.de) will take over the development, sales and customer service for Lauda measuring instruments. For the managing director Gunther Wobser, this new foundation constitutes consistent development: “With this…
Amec Foster Wheeler wins two U.S. environmental contracts
Amec Foster Wheeler (London, U.K.; www.amecfw.com) has been awarded two contracts by Freeport-McMoRan Inc. for the design and supply of a new wet-fluegas-desulfurization system at their existing copper smelter facility in Miami, Arizona. The value of the contracts has not…
Intergraph acquires Norwegian software company OhmTech
Intergraph Corp. (Huntsville, Ala.; www.intergraph.com) Process, Power & Marine has acquired OhmTech A/S (Stavanger, Norway), a provider of pressure-vessel design software for more than 30 years. OhmTech’s technical and development staff in Norway have joined Intergraph as part of the…
PPG completes resin-production plant in Brazil
PPG Industries, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.ppg.com) announced the the completion of a $40-million, 65,000-ft2 plant for onsite resin production at its Sumaré, São Paulo, Brazil, coatings manufacturing facility. “The expansion of the Sumaré facility demonstrates PPG’s long-term commitment to our…