Siemens AG (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) has decided to reorganize its activities in the water business. The company intends to focus in the future on automation and drive solutions for the control of water applications for municipalities and industry. The Business…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with the City of Zürich (represented by Entsorgung und Recycling Zürich), on the design and turnkey delivery of the largest and most advanced sewage-sludge thermal-treatment plant in Switzerland. Outotec's contract value…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today the third technology license for its breakthrough methanol-to-olefins (MTO) technology, which converts methanol from coal into key plastics building blocks. China’s Shandong Yangmei Hengtong Chemicals Co. will use UOP’s…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has been awarded the contract to supply two oxygen plants at the site of a copper smelter being built in Zambia by Kansanshi Mining Plc. The scope of the agreement includes Air Products supply…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is investing approximately €90 million in the first step to build a mobile emissions catalysts production facility in Åšroda ÅšlÄ…ska, a Special Economic Zone near WrocÅ‚aw, Poland. Construction of the new 40,000 square meter facility…
ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH (Uhde; Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) has, through its U.S. business partner, Uhde Corporation of America (Pittsburgh, Pa.), been selected by CF Industries, one of the world's leading fertilizer producers, to provide engineering and supply services for two fertilizer…
Normal 0 The European Chemicals Agency’s (ECHA; Helsinki, Finland; echa.europa.eu) Chemical Safety Assessment and Reporting tool (Chesar) contains additional functionalities to assist registrants in carrying out their chemical safety assessments (CSAs). As a new functionality, the exposure estimation tool for…
Normal 0 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a 60-day administrative stay of the Chemical Manufacturing Area Sources (CMAS) rule. Affected sources originally faced an imminent October 29 deadline to comply with the 2009 final rule, but with EPA…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Paradeep Phosphates Ltd. (PPL) to provide project management consultancy (PMC) services for its sulfuric-acid plant expansion project in Paradeep, Orissa, India. Officials did not disclose the contract value,…
The American Chemistry Council’s (Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) leading macroeconomic indicator known as the Chemicals Activity Barometer (CAB) rose 0.6% in October, marking the fourth consecutive month of gains. Also, the September and August CABs were upwardly revised, and the index…