Aerial view of Imperial Sugar following 2008 dust explosion and fire (photo courtesy of CSB) The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a new safety video depicting how accumulations of combustible dust at worksites can provide the fuel…
Agilent Technologies, Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.; www.agilent.com) and Varian, Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.; www.varianinc.com) have signed a definitive agreement for the acquisition by Agilent of Varian, a leading worldwide supplier of scientific instrumentation and associated consumables for life science and…
The specialty chemicals Group Altana AG (Wesel, Germany; www.altana.com) has entered into an agreement to acquire the business of the North American company Water Ink Technologies, Inc. The company produces primarily water-based and UV inks, coatings and varnishes for narrow…
Yesterday, a coalition of U.S. manufacturing groups known as the American Materials Manufacturing Alliance recommended changes to the American Clean Energy and Security Act (HR 2454) in a letter to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) of the Senate Committee on Environment…
Process Systems Enterprise, Ltd. (PSE; London, U.K.; www.psenterprise.com) has just released version 3.2 of the gPROMS advanced process modeling (APM) software. gPROMS is widely used by large process industry companies in the oil & gas, chemicals and petrochemicals, power generation,…
Lewa GmbH (Leonberg, Germany; www.lewa.de) has been acquired by the Japanese company Nikkiso Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.nikkiso.co.jp/english), and both companies are excited about their shared synergies in product technology and global market presence. The acquisition contract is still pending…
GEA Power Cooling Inc. (Lakewood, Colo.; www.geaict.com), a subsidiary of GEA Group (Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com), received an order to supply, design and erect a cooling tower for the combined cycle power plant “West County” in Palm Beach County, Fla. The…
Along with other industrial companies, Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com/energy) is participating in the Desertec initiative to provide sustainable power to Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. A corresponding Memorandum of Understanding was signed today in Munich. Environmentally friendly…
Sturtevant Inc., (Hanover, Mass.; www.sturtevantinc.com) has entered into an agreement as the exclusive supplier of corn fractionation mills to Crown Iron Works (Roseville, Minn.; www.crowniron.com). Sturtevant’s Simpactor Pin Mill was chosen by Crown to play a pivotal role in their…
The Chinese central government has approved the Joint Feasibility Study Report submitted by BASF and SINOPEC for the expansion of their joint venture (JV), BASF-YPC Co., Ltd. (BYC), in Nanjing, China, as of July 1, 2009. BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany;…