Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo; www.yokogawa.com) announces that it has completed the acquisition of Soteica Visual Mesa (SVM), a leading energy-management technology provider, further delivering on a number of key objectives of Yokogawa's Transformation 2017 mid-term business plan. This announcement marks…
Within the next five years, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany ; www.basf.com) plans to invest globally more than €200 million in its plastic additives business, approximately half of which in Asia, focusing on capacity expansions and operational excellence. Plastic additives improve…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has appointed Dr. Samir J. Serhan executive vice president, leading the company’s Technology, Engineering and Manufacturing functions, excluding HyCO (hydrogen and carbon monoxide). He also will have profit and loss responsibility for the Liquefied…
The Dresser-Rand business (www.dresser-rand.com), a part of the Siemens Power and Gas Division (www.siemens.com), received an order from Air Liquide Global E&C Solutions Hangzhou Co. for an innovative compressor train to be used in an air separation plant in China.…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) is increasing its production capacities for HDK pyrogenic silica. To this end, Wacker is expanding a hydrophobic silica specialties plant at its site in Burghausen, Germany. The plant’s capacity will rise by 40% as…
We are officially settled into our new headquarters building located at 2009 Renaissance Boulevard, King of Prussia, PA. We briefly touched on the move in our end of year blog posted Dec. 30th and are excited to report…
In our prior post, we talked about using variants of the classic PID algorithm in order to control vacuum processes. In the simplest form, the PID control loop can be reduced to a P-only, or 2-point, algorithm. For example, by…
Saudi Aramco (Dhahran; www.saudiaramco.com) has acquired the Converge product line and associated operations and technologies from U.S.-based Novomer Inc. (Waltham, Mass.; www.novomer.com). The transaction was valued at up to $100 million. Converge is manufactured from and contains a significant portion…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) has expanded its range of services in Asia with today’s official opening of a new food laboratory at its Technical Center in Singapore. The regional competence center now has a newly created laboratory dedicated…
Ineos Technologies (Rolle, Switzerland; www.ineos.com) announced that INEOS O&P USA has acquired 100% of the shares of WLP Holding Corp., one of the largest high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipe manufacturers in North America. The business is headquartered in Fort Worth, Tex.…