CBW Chemie GmbH Bitterfeld Wolfen (www.cbwchem.com) and WeylChem Group (www.weylchem.com) have reached an agreement with DyStar Colours Deutschland GmbH (Frankfurt; www.dystar.com) for the acquisition of DyStar’s production site in Brunsbüttel, Germany. The site, which is part of the Bayer Industrial…
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the selection of 22 projects that will accelerate carbon capture and storage research and development for industrial sources. Funded with more than $575 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, these R&D…
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK; Brentford, U.K.; www.gsk.com) and Lonza (Basel, Switzerland; www.lonza.com) today announced that they have entered into a new agreement under which Lonza will support the ongoing development of GSK’s biopharmaceutical pipeline by supplying manufacturing capacity for five early stage…
Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL; New Delhi; www.iocl.com) has chosen Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) to supply the technology for its coker-gas-oil (CGO) hydrotreating unit at its Haldia Refinery. With a design capacity of 1.4-million ton/yr, the new unit will hydro-process…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has received an order from Konkola Copper Mines for the delivery of the third electric furnace and related services for the Chingola copper smelter in Zambia. The order value is approximately €13 million. The order…
Solvay S.A. Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) and its Chinese partner Sinochem Lantian have decided to build a new electronic grade hydrogen fluoride production installation for Lansol Fluorchem Co., Solvay's joint venture with Zhejiang Lantian Environmental Protection Co., a subsidiary of Sinochem…
JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) and Abengoa Solar (Seville, Spain; www.abengoasolar.com) have formed a partnership to own two 50-MW concentrating solar power (CSP) plants in El Carpio (Córdoba), Spain. Abengoa Solar, who will also operate both facilities, will retain control…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo; www.outotec.com) Kemira Oyj (Helsinki, both Finland; www.kemira.com) have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to develop, promote and support the companies’ businesses in minerals and oil-sands processing as well as associated industrial water treatment solutions. Kemira offers a…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has decided to increase the production capacity for peroxide-curable (PC) fluoroelastomers, commercialized under the trademark Tecnoflon, in the Solvay Solexis plant at Spinetta Marengo, Italy. Solvay is investing €10 million in the capacity increase, which is…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has won an order from Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) for the design and delivery of an iron-ore sinter plant for SAIL’s Bhilai Steel Plant in Chhattisgarh. Outotec will implement the turnkey plant project…