HRST, Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.; www.hrstinc.com) has added to their capabilities in performance analysis and modeling by integrating ANSYS software into the firm’s extensive knowledge of HRSG technologies. “The energy environment has changed in recent years,” Amy Sieben, HRST’s Analysis…
Foster Wheeler AG (FWC; Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCm) contract by Sasol for its Fischer-Tropsch Wax Expansion Project to be located at Sasolburg,…
Air Liquide (Paris; www.airliquide.com) has signed another major long-term contract in the steel industry in China. It will invest about €40 million in Yichun, Heilongjiang Province (northeastern China), 350 km north of Harbin, Heilongjiang’s capital city, to supply Xilin Steel…
The inventories-to-sales ratio for chemical products fell to a record low in January, suggesting increased production could follow, according to data compiled and analyzed by the American Chemistry Council (ACC). Sales of chemical products at the wholesale level rose 3.6% in…
U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced today that a project with NRG Energy has been selected to receive up to $154 million, including funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Located in Thompsons, Tex., the post-combustion capture and…
Caloric Anlagenbau GmbH (Gräfelfing, Germany; www.caloric.com) has won the contract for a hydrogen expansion project in Malaysia. After successful operation of the first plant delivered by Caloric and started up in 2006 the customer chose again Caloric’s high efficient HC…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) and Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc., an operating unit of The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (Lynchburg, Va.; www.babcock.com) have formed a strategic alliance with Fluor’s Power Group to market and sell carbon-dioxide-capture systems…
U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu today announced selections for the award of approximately $40 million in total to two teams led by Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse Electric Co. and San Diego-based General Atomics for conceptual design and planning work for the…
Bayer MaterialScience LLC (BMS; www.bayermaterialscience.com), a subsidiary of Bayer AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayer.com) and part of the global Bayer MaterialScience business, has acquired Artificial Muscle, Inc. (AMI; Sunnyvale, Calif.). AMI is a pioneer and leader in the field of electroactive…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) has decided to expand the global capacity of its high-performance rubber Neodymium Polybutadiene (Nd-PBR). Lanxess will invest about €20 million to increase production by an additional 50,000 metric tons per year at its sites in Dormagen,Germany; Orange,…