Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. (MHPS; Yokohama, Japan; www.mhps.com) has signed a technology license agreement (TLA) for Selective Catalyst Reduction (SCR) System with L&T-MHPS Boilers Private Ltd. (LMB; Mumbai, India; www.lntmhps.com), a joint venture company of Larsen & Toubro Ltd.…
JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.com) has been awarded a contract for the construction of a photovoltaic power plant from Karumai Higashi Solar, LLC. This follows its receipt of the contract for the Karumai Nishi facility in April of this year.…
VACUUBRAND has updated our oemvacuumpump.com website. This site is home to a wealth of technical reference information on our pumps, calculators to assist in pump selection, and white papers. You can also read about our work in a variety…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) announced that it has started up its carbon dioxide purification and liquefaction plant at Delaware City Refining Company’s facility in Delaware City, Delaware. The 450-ton-per-day plant is producing food and beverage quality liquid carbon dioxide…
Asahi Glass Co. (AGC; Tokyo; www.agc.com) has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of CMC Biologics, a world-leading biologics Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (“API”) manufacturer with major investors including Monitor Clipper Partners and European Equity Partners, for…
Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzer.com) signed a binding agreement to acquire Wärtsilä’s Vessel Internal Electrostatic Coalescer (VIEC) business. The VIEC business is based in Asker, Norway. VIEC’s patented technology separates oil from water in a highly efficient manner and it…
Linde AG (Munich, Germany; www.the-linde-group.com) and Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) announced that the companies intend to combine in a merger of equals under a new holding company through an all-stock transaction. The companies have signed a non-binding term sheet…
Wacker Biosolutions, the life sciences and biotechnology division of the Wacker Group (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com), is acquiring a large-scale fermentation plant from Antibióticos de León SLU (ADL) in Spain. Today, the two companies announced the signing of the contract of…
Sound levels in a plant or in a lab are often high enough to be distracting, and sometimes they are high enough to create health and safety concerns for workers in the immediate area. We've published a noise level calculator…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced that Chevron (China) Chemicals Co. (Chevron Oronite) has selected Fluor to perform front-end engineering and design (FEED) work for a manufacturing facility in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China. Fluor booked the undisclosed contract value in the…