Caloric Anlagenbau GmbH (Graefelfing, Germany; www.caloric.com) will supply a new hydrogen generation plant in Indonesia. Design capacity of the plant is 1000 Nm3/h hydrogen. The steam reforming process will be initially started with natural gas as feedstock, but is also…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) announced today its purchase of a novel feed enzyme from the industrial biotechnology company Direvo Industrial Biotechnology GmbH (Cologne, Germany; www.direvo.com). Direvo´s tailor-made feed enzyme is an optimized and improved mannanase. It displays superior temperature…
Ineos Technologies (Cheshire, U.K.; www.ineostechnologies.com) today announced that it has licensed its Innovene polypropylene (PP) process to Zhong Tian He Chuang Energy Co. Located in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the 350,000 ton/yr plant will manufacture a full line…
There is no pdf available for this short news item Airgas, Inc. (Radnor, Pa.; www.airgas.com), with support from the Tulsa Metro Chamber and Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett, announced that it will hold a job fair to fill more than 60…
Linde Engineering Dresden GmbH (www.linde.com) has acquired the Carbo-V Technology of the insolvent Choren Industries GmbH (Freiberg, Germany) from the insolvency administrator Dr. Bruno M. Kübler. The Carbo-V Technology (for flowsheet, see Chem. Eng., August 2003, p. 16; www.chemengonline.com/articles/2003/NewsChem/NewsChem08012003_14.html) constitutes…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed a major long-term contract with Evraz Highveld Steel and Vanadium, the second-largest steel producer in South Africa. Air liquide is investing around €40 million in a new air separation unit (ASU), with a…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has acquired 47% of shares of a major engineering company, PT. Inti Karya Persada Teknik (IKPT; Jakarta, Indonesia; www.ikpt.com). IKPT, an engineering company founded in 1982, has a lot of experience in engineering,…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has executed a definitive agreement by which Praxair sold its advanced components business to FM Industries, Inc. (Fremont, Calif.). FM Industries is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NGK Insulators of Japan. Terms of the transaction were…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) says that Arlington Valley Solar Energy II, LLC (AVSE II), a member of LS Power Group, has awarded Fluor a lump-sum engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract, as well as a separate contract for ongoing…
JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) has been awarded a contract for a project to renovate cooling water facilities at a thermal power plant in Nassiriyah in southern Iraq. This marks the first post-Iraq War lump-sum contract for engineering, procurement, and…