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Website helps identify local pressure measurement expertise  

A revamped website from Continental Disc Corp. (Liberty, MO) features easy-to-use navigation and simple rupture-disc pressure-protection information in a new look that is clean and polished. Improved features include the Representative Locator function to help viewers find local pressure management…

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Biazzi wins hydrogenation order in Belgium

Biazzi SA (Montreaux, Switzerland; www.biazzi.com) has just received an order for a large hydrogenation unit from Belgian Oleon N.V., one of the three majors on the European oleochemical scene. After successful tests in the Biazzi laboratories on specific raw materials,…

Alstom awarded contracts for its Mer-Cure Hg-removal system

Alstom (Paris, France; www.alstom.comwww.alstom.com) and Reliant Energy, Inc. have announced the contract signing for the purchase of Alstom’s advanced mercury removal system, Mer-Cure. The deal follows the successful launch of Alstom’s Mer-Cure product line in 2007, marking Alstom’s entry into…

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Air Liquide invests in H2 unit to serve Rotterdam/Antwerp

In Rotterdam, Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has just won a long-term contract to supply hydrogen to Neste Oil’s Renewable Diesel plant. To meet the industrial gas requirements of Neste Oil, Air Liquide is investing in a new world-scale hydrogen…

Foster Wheeler to expand delayed coker complex in Hungary

In an announcement made today, Foster Wheeler Ltd. (Hamilton, Bermuda; www.fwc.com)  reported that its Madrid-based subsidiary, Foster Wheeler Iberia, S.A.U., has been awarded a contract to provide the basic design and estimating services for the expansion of a delayed coker…

UOP and Rentech form clean-fuel alliance

UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) announced today that it has formed an alliance with Rentech, Inc. (Los Angeles, Calif.; www.rentechinc.com) to jointly offer technology for the production of clean fuels, specialty waxes and chemicals. The non-exclusive agreement between UOP…

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Siltronic and Samsung start production of 300-mm wafers in Singapore  

Siltronic Samsung Wafer Pte. Ltd. (www.siltronic-samsung-wafer.com), a joint venture (JV) of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (www.samsung.com) and Siltronic AG (www.siltronic.com), today commissioned a new fab in Singapore for the production of 300 mm wafers. After only 18 months of construction,…

EFCG launches guidelines for fine-chemicals makers

The European Fine Chemicals Group (EFCG; Brussels, Belgium; www.efcg.cefic.org) has launched its new “Voluntary Guidelines for ISO-regulated Fine Chemical Manufacturers.” The Voluntary Guidelines were originally developed by the Agrochemical Intermediates’ Manufacturers in Europe (AIME) — a sub-section of EFCG  —…

Evonik expands silica capacity in Turkey

The Chemicals Business Area of Germany-based Evonik Industries AG, Essen, has expanded the silica capacity of its joint venture Egesil AS in Adapazari, near Izmit, Turkey. With the new capacity of 40,000 ton/year, Evonik Industries is keeping pace with the…

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Bulgarian refinery to upgrade with Axens’ technology

Lukoil Neftochim Burgas AD, a subsidiary of the Russian oil major Lukoil (Moscow; www.lukoil.com), has selected Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net)  to design and license technologies to convert Urals blend vacuum residue and gasoil (VGO) at its 165,000-bbl/d petroleum refinery in…