Xebec Adsorption Inc. (Xebec; Montreal, Canada; www.xebecinc.com), a provider of biogas-upgrading, natural-gas and hydrogen-purification solutions for the clean energy market, announced today that it has received its first order for a landfill gas upgrading system from Huiming EP&CE Co., Ltd,…
Sulzer Metco AG (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzermetco.com) has acquired the DLC activities of Bekaert (Kortrijk, Belgium; www.bekaert.com). The acquisition, which includes Bekaert’s diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings and racing activities, will deliver significant technological benefits to Sulzer and Bekaert customers, as both…
Novasep (Pompey, France; www.novasep.com), a leading supplier of manufacturing solutions to the life science industries, and instrAction (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.instraction.com), a manufacturer of innovative chromatographic stationary phases for API (active pharmaceutical ingredient) purification processes, today announced that they have entered…
Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com) has been awarded a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by Summit Texas Clean Energy LLC to provide coal gasification and power block technology for the Texas Clean Energy Project (TCEP). The new polygeneration IGCC…
Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com), is planning to design, install, and operate a pilot plant for treating a slipstream (1 MW equivalent) at the Tampa Electric Big Bend Station to demonstrate Postcap technology for post-combustion CO2 gas capture. The primary…
Economic data were generally negative this week, and the recovery of global industrial production appears to be slowing, the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Arlington, Va.; www.americanchemistry.com) says in its latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Trends report. Charting the various economic…
Babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Energy, Inc., (B&W NE; Lynchburg, Va.) and Bechtel Power Corp. (San Francisco, Calif.: www.bechtel.com)have entered into a formal alliance to design, license and deploy the world’s first commercially viable Generation III++ small modular nuclear power plant.…
AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has agreed to acquire the worldwide assets of Swedish-based company Lindgens Metal Decorating Coatings and Inks, including its majority stake in the Server Boya joint venture in Turkey. Financial details were not disclosed. Consultations with employee…
Catalytic Distillation Technologies (CDTech; Pasedena, Tex.; www.cdtech.com) has been awarded a contract by OAO UNPZ Ufa Refinery for the license and basic engineering of a fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) gasoline hydrodesulfurization unit in the Russian Federation. The FCC unit is designed…
Bayer Technology Services GmbH (BTS; Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayertechnology.com) and the Excellence Cluster for the Engineering of Advanced Materials — Hierarchical Structure Formation for Functional Devices (EAM) at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (www.eam.uni-erlangen.de) have signed a cooperation agreement. The focus is…