Specialty chemicals company Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is to expand annual production capacity at its Dormagen, Germany, site for its ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (EVM) line sold under the product brands Levapren and Levamelt by 30% to 15,000 metric tons.…
GEA Group AG (Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com) is planning to build a separator production facility in Wuqing, China. Production is scheduled to start in 2011. The site, which is located immediately next to an existing GEA Heat Exchangers Segment production plant,…
Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. (Bolingbrook, Ill.; www.elevance.com) has entered into a joint development agreement with Stepan Co. (Northfield, Ill.), to evaluate and commercialize novel surfactants, antimicrobials and polyurethane polyols based on Elevance’s specialty feedstocks, including 9-decenoic ester and C18 di-basic…
Brooks Instrument (Hatfield, Penn.; www.brooksinstrument.com) has received important CSA and CRN approvals for the Model 810 magnetic level gage and associated transmitters and switches. These approvals verify Brooks’ compliance with international standards that users value. CSA International, a provider of…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) started a new production unit for high-quality, black iron-oxide pigments at its site in Jinshan, Shanghai. The produced color shades are the most advanced bluish type black pigments in the industry. With the annual capacity…
Ansys, Inc. (Canonsburg, Pa.; www.ansys.com) has launched ANSYS 13.0, the newest release of its engineering simulation technology suite designed to optimize product development processes — reducing the time and cost needed to foster product innovations. The advanced technology behind ANSYS…
BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Co.; Franklin Lakes, N.J.: www.bd.com), and Lonza Group Ltd (Basel, Switzerland; www.lonza.com) have entered into an exclusive licensing and collaboration agreement for Lonza to commercialize its microCompass molecular assays on the…
Metso (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) will supply a new biomass-fired power boiler, utilizing bubbling fluidized-bed technology, and a fluegas cleaning and condensation system to Bomhus Energi AB. The value of the order is over €50 million, and the order will be…
AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has underscored its ambition to double revenue in China within the next five years by opening its sixth powder coatings facility in the country. The plant is located in the Wuhan Economic and Technological Development…
Axens (Performance Programs; Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) has delivered to Aromatics Oman LLC (AOL) a Process Operations Simulator (POS) for its ParamaX complex started up beginning of 2010. The POS integrates all units of the complex. The simulations are based on…