Nghi Son Refinery & Petrochemical LLC (NSRP) has awarded Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) the basic engineering design contracts for some of the units of the new 200,000 bbl/d petroleum refinery that is to be constructed in Thanh Hoa province located…
High-performance elastomer seals specialist, Precision Polymer Engineering, Ltd. (PPE; Blackburn, U.K.; www.prepol.com) has completed a three-year, £5-million, expansion of its manufacturing, sales administration, materials research and training facilities in Blackburn. The expansion doubles the size of PPE’s factory to 6,000…
Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) and the Danish Technological Institute (www.dti.dk) have received 1-million euros from the Danish Energy Agency for a project aiming to turn bioethanol into an economic and sustainable replacement of fossil fuels for diesel vehicles.…
Uhde Inventa-Fischer GmbH (Berlin, Germany; www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) has entered into a contract with the Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC) to provide the technology license and the basic engineering for the second PET (polyethylene terephthalate) resin expansion of its manufacturing affiliate, Arabian…
Brooks Instrument (Hatfield, Penn.; www.brooksinstrument.com) has announced its acquisition of certain assets of Celerity’s Instrumentation Div. Celerity designs and manufactures precision instruments and advanced gas and liquid delivery solutions, including thermal mass flow devices, for the semiconductor industry where it…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will shut down the Styropor plant (EPS, expandable polystyrene) at its site in Tarragona, Spain. The closure is scheduled for August 2009. As a direct consequence of the plant closure and due to the current…
Telvent (Madrid, Spain; www.telvent.com) announced it is partnering with Longwatch, Inc. (Norwood, Mass.; www.longwatch.com) to integrate components of the Longwatch Surveillance System with the Telvent OASyS DNA supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system. This alliance provides oil, gas, electric,…
The Technical University of Denmark (DTU; www.dtu.dk), the Technische Universität München (TUM; www.tum.de) and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e; www.tue.nl) are starting a graduate school in Sustainable Energy Technologies. All three have a strong international reputation in this field. It…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and F.A.R. Fabbrica Adesivi Resine S.p.A (F.A.R.; Cologno Monzese, Italy;www.gruppofar.it/far/eng/index.htm), have agreed to cooperate for the production, marketing and sale of the polyalcohol trimethylolpropane (TMP). This cooperation is expected to take effect in July 2009.…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; www.epa.gov) has awarded Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.us) its New Chemicals Program P2 Recognition Project Award for the company’s Exolit OP 560, a new-generation non-halogenated flame retardant. The product is made by Clariant’s Pigments &…