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Siemens and Bentley Systems initiate strategic collaboration
Siemens AG (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) and Bentley Systems (Exton, Pa.; www.bentley.com) today announced a strategic collaboration to advance the integration of digital product design and manufacturing processes design with information modeling for facilities lifecycle design. According to the Memorandum of…
EPA appoints new heads of two independent science advisory committees
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; Washington, D.C.; www.epa.gov) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson has appointed two engineers to serve as the chairs of two independent Federal Advisory Committees: the EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) and the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee…
Changes likely for Congressional committees with jurisdiction over chemical industry issues
Normal 0 The 113th Congress will see several changes in leadership of Congressional Committees that have jurisdiction over some of the chemical industry’s top legislative issues, according to the Society of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates (SOCMA). Senator James Inhofe (R-OK)…
New plant revamp contract awarded to EDL Anlagenbau
On November 7, 2012 the CEOs of Total Raffinerie Mitteldeutschland GmbH, Leuna and EDL Anlagenbau Gesellschaft mbH (Leipzig, Germany) signed a contract on the revamp of the fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) gas-processing plant, alkylation plant and reactor conversion of the…
Bechtel’s ThruPlus Coking technology to be used in Kazakhstan refinery
Bechtel (Houston; www.bechtel.com) has signed a license agreement with JSC Pavlodar Oil Chemistry Refinery (POCR) for a major modernization and process design of a delayed coking unit (DCU) complex in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan. The DCU complex will use Bechtel’s ThruPlus Coking…
Toyo awarded EO/EG project in Korea
Toyo Engineering Korea Ltd., a subsidiary of Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp), has been awarded a contract to build ethylene oxide (EO) and ethylene glycol (EG) plant with capacities of 80,000 ton/yr EO and 205,000 ton/yr EG planned…
Siemens to reorganize its water business
Siemens AG (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) has decided to reorganize its activities in the water business. The company intends to focus in the future on automation and drive solutions for the control of water applications for municipalities and industry. The Business…
Outotec to build the largest sewage-sludge thermal-treatment plant in Switzerland
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with the City of Zürich (represented by Entsorgung und Recycling Zürich), on the design and turnkey delivery of the largest and most advanced sewage-sludge thermal-treatment plant in Switzerland. Outotec's contract value…
UOP wins third license for MTO technology
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today the third technology license for its breakthrough methanol-to-olefins (MTO) technology, which converts methanol from coal into key plastics building blocks. China’s Shandong Yangmei Hengtong Chemicals Co. will use UOP’s…
Air Products supplying ASUs for copper-smelter project in Zambia
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has been awarded the contract to supply two oxygen plants at the site of a copper smelter being built in Zambia by Kansanshi Mining Plc. The scope of the agreement includes Air Products supply…