CST Industries, Inc. (Kansas City, Mo.; www.tanks.com), a global leader in the design, manufacture, and installation of storage tanks and covers, has acquired Temcor, Inc. (Gardena, Calif. Temcor designs, manufactures and erects clear span aluminum domes and specialty covers for…
GEA Group AG (Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com) received in its Energy and Farm Technology Segment orders worth EUR 46 million for efficient power plant cooling equipment from China. The orders consist of an Alex Air Cooled Condenser for the 2 x…
Specialty chemical company, Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) has announced its plans to build an ethoxylation plant in Dayabay, situated south of Guangzhou. The plant will be operational in early 2011 and will have a capacity of close to 50,000 metric…
The massive December 2007 explosion and fire at T2 Laboratories in Jacksonville, Fla. was caused by a runaway chemical reaction that likely resulted from an inadequate reactor cooling system, investigators from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB; www.csb.gov) said in…
Bartec GmbH (Bad Mergentheim, Germany; www.bartec.de) has taken over Vodec Ltd. (Nottingham, U.K.), a provider of communication and security systems. This acquisition is another milestone within the growth strategy of the internationally operating group of companies whose products and services…
Leading industrial companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to evaluate the setup of a hydrogen infrastructure in Germany so as to promote serial production of electric vehicles with fuel cells. This marks a major step towards the commercialization of…
AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) is realigning its Performance Coatings and Specialty Chemicals portfolios, which will result in the launch of two new business units and the merger of two others. Due to come into effect on January 1, 2010, the…
Skangass AS (Tananger, Norway) has ordered an operator training system (OTS) for its liquified natural gas plant from Yokogawa Norway (Tokyo, Japan). Yokogawa had already supplied the 300,000 ton/yr plant with its safety and automation system (SAS) and plant instrumentation.…
Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany; www.merck.de) has acquired Suzhou Taizhu Technology Development Co. (Taizhu; Taicang, China), a leading supplier of effect pigments. With total revenues of more than €14 million in 2008 and 300 employees, Taizhu is one of the biggest…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has been awarded a contract by ZE PAK S.A. for the design, supply and erection of a 55 MWe biomass-fired circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) boiler…