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Air Products creating world’s largest H2-pipeline-supply network

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) plans to construct a new 180-mile long pipeline connecting its existing Louisiana and Texas hydrogen pipeline systems, creating the world’s largest hydrogen plant and pipeline supply network. This integrated pipeline system…

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Wacker buys silicone-production plant in South Korea

Wacker Chemicals Korea Inc., a Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) subsidiary, is acquiring the Lucky Silicone brand from Henkel Technologies (Korea) Ltd.. The two companies announced a purchase agreement to this effect today. The transaction still requires antitrust approval.…

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Commissioning of a new O2 production unit in Italy

Air Liquide (Paris; www.airliquide.com) announces the commissioning of a new high-pressure and high-purity gaseous oxygen production unit in Italy. It was installed in Castelnuovo del Garda, near Verona, where Air Liquide already operates another air separation unit. With a production…

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Construction starts on new He plant in U.S.

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) and Matheson (www.mathesongas.com), a member of the Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp. (TNSC) group, today announced that onsite construction has commenced on a new, jointly-owned liquid helium production plant near Big Piney,…

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Fluor to design two solar power plants in Spain

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced today that Elecnor S.A. (Madrid, Spain; www.elecnor.es) has awarded the company an engineering services contract for two new 50-MW concentrating solar power (CSP) plants in Alcazar de San Juan, Spain. Fluor booked the undisclosed…

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Foster Wheeler awarded contract for two pulverized-coal steam generators in Vietnam

Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has been awarded a contract by Japan’s Marubeni Corp. for the design and supply of two pulverized coal steam generators for the Nghi Son…

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Toyo & LG Group form ‘green’ JV

Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has established a joint venture (JV) with LG Group (Seoul, South Korea; www.lgcorp.com) through Toyo Engineering Korea Ltd. and Serveone Co., both of which are 100% subsidiaries of their respective parent companies. The…

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DSM and Brain to develop water-soluble vitamins

DSM Nutritional Products GmbH (Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany; www.dsmnutritionalproducts.com), a subsidiary of the Dutch company Royal DSM N.V. (www.dsm.com) Brain AG (Zwingenberg, Germany; www.brain-biotech.de) have announced a strategic cooperation in the biotechnological production of water-soluble vitamins.  Benefiting from the long-term experience of…

Dow Corning’s Stephanie A. Burns to be Awarded the 2011 International Palladium Medal

Sunil Kumar, Chairman of the International Palladium Medal Award Committee of the Société de Chimie Industrielle announced today that the prestigious international award will be made to Stephanie A. Burns, chairman, president, and CEO of Dow Corning (www.dowcorning.com), in recognition…

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Ecopetrol starts up the HDT Complex Project

Ecopetrol S.A. (Bogotá, Columbia; www.ecopetrol.com.co) has successfully started-up two new units for the production of Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (Prime-D) and Ultra Low Sulfur Gasoline (Prime-G+), as part of its Hydrotreating Project (HDT) at its Barrancabermeja Refinery, located in the…