Lucid Energy (Portland, Ore.; www.lucidenergy.com) today announced the commercial availability of its in-pipe hydropower system, known as the LucidPipe Power System. This renewable energy system enables large users of energy and water — such as municipal water and wastewater, agricultural…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been jointly awarded, with ENPPI — an engineering company under the Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum — a contract to build a 460,000 ton/yr ethylene plant and a 20,000 ton/yr butadiene extraction plant…
Industrial biotechnology company Verenium Corp. (San Diego, Calif.; www.verenium.com) today announced it has closed a transaction with DSM Food Specialties B.V., a business group of Royal DSM (Heerlen, The Netherlands; www.dsm.com), in which Verenium has sold to DSM its oilseed…
OPX Biotechnologies Inc. (OPX; Boulder, Colo.; www.opxbio.com) today announced that the company has successfully demonstrated its fermentation process for bio-based acrylic acid at the 3,000-L scale. OPX is working with The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) to bring its…
“The member companies of Germany’s Large Industrial Plant Manufacturer’s Group (AGAB; Frankfurt am Main; www.grossanlagenbau.vdma.org) booked orders worth €24.9 billion in 2011, an 11% increase compared to the previous year (€22.4 billion in 2010)”, announced Helmut Knauthe, AGAB spokesman and…
Both the global and U.S. chemical production regional indices (Global CPRI and U.S. CPRI, respectively) rose in February, according to the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). The global CPRI…
GEA Group AG (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.geagroup.com) has received an order worth more than €70 million from Fonterra in New Zealand. The order will be handled by the GEA Process Engineering Segment. The new whole milk powder plant which only utilizes…
Royal DSM N.V. (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding between its U.S.-based Business Unit DSM Functional Materials and Empresa Brasileira de Biotecnologia S.A. (Ebrabiotech; Araraquara, Brazil) for the launch of a new line of DSM-branded bio-based…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has acquired advanced adsorption technology assets for its Generated Gases product lines from Xebec Adsorption, Inc. (Blainville, Quebec, Canada) In this acquisition, Air Products purchased the technology, intellectual property and know-how related to structured…
Lucite International, Inc. Memphis, Tenn.; www.luciteinternational.com) says that it is progressing with its investment to establish 150,000-ton/yr production of methyl methacrylate (MMA) in 2012 at its Beaumont, Tex., facility. The company will continue to produce MMA at its Memphis, Tenn.,…