SGL Group (Wiesbaden, Germany; www.sglcarbon.com) will invest within the next three years approximately €75 million into the capacity expansion of isostatic graphite to support the global growth of its customers in the solar energy, light emitting diodes (LED) and semiconductor industries.…
SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded an engineering and procurement (EP) contract by Grizzly Oil Sands ULC for its new Algar Lake Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) facility located near Fort McMurray in north-eastern Alberta. The project…
Two Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies (VWS; Saint Maurice, France; www.veoliawaterst.com) companies — N.A. Water Systems (www.nawatersystems.com) and OTV (www.otv.fr) — have been awarded a contract to design and build a 24,000 m3/d (6.34-million gal/d) desalination facility on the island…
Siemens VAI Metals Technologies (Linz, Austria, www.siemens.com/metals) has received an order from the Steel Authority of India (SAIL) to supply an RH vacuum degassing plant to the Rourkela Steel Works in the state of Orissa. The new plant will allow high-quality…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will invest in a dispersions plant in Daya Bay Petrochemical Industrial Park in Huizhou, China. With an annual capacity of 100,000 tons, the new plant will produce XSB dispersions for the paper industry and acrylic dispersions…
Demand for triacetonamine derivatives (TAA derivatives) has kept rising for several years. Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is taking advantage of the economic opportunities afforded by this situation and is considerably expanding its production capacities for these special derivatives in…
The biomass-to-liquids (BTL) demonstration plant, jointly operated by the Oxford Catalysts Group (Abingdon, Oxfordshire, U.K.; www.oxfordcatalysts.com) and the Portuguese incorporated holding company SGC Energia (SGCE, www.sgc.pt), at the biomass gasification facility in Güssing, Austria, is now up and running. The plant…
Georg Fischer AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland; www.georgfischer.com) is further strengthening its market position in China: The Corporate Group GF Piping Systems is bringing its tenth production plant in China on stream. Using state-of-the-art production technology, the new plant will manufacture complete…
A seminar devoted to key aspects of pneumatic conveying will be held on Sept. 21–23, at the CycloTech System Proving Facility in York, Neb. The seminar titled "The Theory and Practice of Pneumatic Conveying" will include live demonstrations of full-scale…
Cobalt Technologies Mountain View, Calif., www.cobalttech.com) has signed an agreement with Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) whereby Fluor will provide engineering consulting services as Cobalt gears up to commercialize its biobutanol production technology. Additionally, Fluor will offer a broad range…