Atlas Copco’s (Antwerp, Belgium; www.atlascopco.com) Oil-free Air division has announced that the company’s ZR series of water-cooled oil-free air compressors with built-in energy recovery systems is the first in the world to be TÜV certified for ‘net zero energy consumption’…
Ningxia Hanas Natural Gas Company Ltd has awarded Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) a lump sum contract for of a mid-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant to be built in Yinchuan, China. The contract covers the engineering, supply of main equipment,…
Due to the continuing global economic crisis, specialty chemicals group Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is postponing the construction of its new butyl rubber facility in Singapore. Production is now scheduled to start in 2014. Lanxess will use the time…
Honeywell (Morristown, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) has signed a definitive agreement valued at approximately $400 million to acquire the Kassel, Germany-based RMG Group (RMG Regel + Messtechnik GmbH and all of its subsidiaries, together RMG; www.rmg.de). RMG will be integrated into Honeywell…
Celanese Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.celanese.com) has announced that it will rename its AT Plastics Inc. business, an ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) copolymer and low density polyethylene (LDPE) resin producer, Celanese EVA Performance Polymers Inc. The name change is expected to…
The first major pieces of equipment have arrived at Duke Energy’s integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) plant in Edwardsport, Indiana. Using GE IGCC technology, the plant is expected to be the largest cleaner coal IGCC facility of its type in the…
Siemens Energy (Erlangen, Germany; www.siemens.com/energy) and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO; Delft, Netherlands; www.tno.nl) , have signed an exclusive cooperation agreement aimed at the further advancement of amino-acid salt-based carbon capture technology. Carbon capture technologies in the…
TU Dortmund (www.tu-dortmund.de) is among the winners of the competition “Bio.NRW” of the NRW-Ministry of Innovation. With the Chair of Technical Biochemistry (headed by Professor Andreas Schmid) in charge, TU-scientists together with their colleagues from the Research Center Jülich are…
ProSim (Labège; www.prosim.net) and the French Petroleum Institute (IFP; Rueil-Malmaison, both France; www.ifp.fr) and announce the signature of a partnership agreement aimed at integrating the PC-SAFT thermodynamic model in ProSim software thermodynamic component. IFP has recognized competencies in complex mixtures…
SNF Holding Co. (Riceboro, Georgia; www.snf.us) has announced its plans to construct a new waterâ€soluble polymers manufacturing facility in Iberville Parish, Louisiana. The proposed facility is expected to be built in phases over five years, with a total capital investment…