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Mitsubishi Chemical and Mitsui Engineering to produce and sell zeolite membranes for U.S. bioethanol market

Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC; Tokyo; www.m-kagaku.co.jp) and Mitsui Zosen Machinery & Service, Inc. (MZM), a subsidiary of Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. have agreed to form a business tie-up to produce and sell zeolite membranes. With the goal of entering…

Jacobs wins three-year Sipchem contract

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) received a three-year contract from Saudi International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem) to provide general engineering services at Sipchem’s Jubail Industrial City facilities in Saudi Arabia. Under the terms of the contract, Jacobs is expected…

Johnson Matthey names new financial director

Johnson Matthey (London; www.matthey.com) has announced that Anna Manz will join the company's board on 17th October 2016, succeeding Den Jones as Group Finance Director. This follows the announcement on 2nd March that Den Jones will step down as Group…

Black & Veatch passes performance acceptance at First Prico-NGL facility

Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.; www.bv.com) today announced the first facility licensing its proprietary Prico-NGL gas-processing technology successfully passed performance acceptance. Located in Alberta, Canada, the facility is using Prico-NGL to extract valuable natural gas liquids (NGL) from the…

Evonik opens new competence center for silanes at its Rheinfelden site

On July 14, Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) held the inauguration ceremony for a new silanes competence center at its Rheinfelden, Germany site, thereby continuing its expansion in research and development in the area of silane technology. The specialty…

Vacuum Unit Conversion

One of the most common issues we help customers with is how to measure units and communicate that information to others.  While this might sound simple, there are a multitude of units used to measure pressure.  The potential for confusion…

Praxair expands helium supply in Central Europe

Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has signed a long-term agreement for the purchase of liquid helium from Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo SA (PGNiG), a leader in the Polish natural-gas market, as well as the only producer of helium in…

PPG announces executive appointment

PPG Industries, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.ppg.com) announced that Jeff Oravitz, previously chief executive officer of MetoKote, is appointed vice president of PPG coatings services and president of PPG-MetoKote, reporting directly to Viktor Sekmakas, PPG executive vice president. PPG announced July…

Outotec to deliver process equipment for Polymetal’s gold project in Kazakhstan

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has been awarded a contract by Bakyrchik Mining, a subsidiary of Polymetal International Plc, for the delivery of process equipment to the gold project Kyzyl in north-eastern Kazakhstan. The parties have agreed not to disclose…

DFG Senate Commission submits 52nd list of maximum workplace concentrations and biological exposure limits

The Senate Commission for the Investigation of Health Hazards of Chemical Compounds in the Work Area of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG; Bonn, Germany; www.dfg.de) presented the 52nd issue of the List of Maximum Workplace Concentrations (MAK values)…