Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard, the Netherlands; www.stamicarbon.com), the licensing and IP Center of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (www.mairetecnimont.it), has signed a license agreement with Tierra del Fuego Energia Y Quimica S.A., an Argentina based company controlled by shareholders from China. The agreement…
In the Chinese province Shandong, a coal-fired power plant will be putting into operation the first industrial-scale plant worldwide for CO2 storage by algae. Within the framework of this project, GEA Westfalia Separator Group (Oelde, Germany; www.westfalia-separator.com) has been awarded…
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…
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…