Chementator
Chementator: Bringing the corrosion resistance of tantalum to off-the-shelf stainless-steel parts
Tantaline (Lyngby, Demnark; www.tantaline.com) has developed a process that creates a surface alloy of tantalum on…
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Heavy crude UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com) plans to do further development of…
Business News
TEL and Edwards to develop new abatement solution
Edwards (Crawley, U.K.; www.edwardsvacuum.com) today announced that it will jointly develop a perfluorocarbon (PFC) gas-abatement…
Hoerbiger plans to acquire Altronic
Hoerbiger Holding AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.hoerbiger.com), plans to acquire Altronic, Inc. (Girard, Ohio) — a…
A new piperazine flaker for BASF in Antwerp
In the first quarter of 2009 BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will start up a…
Siemens’ acquisition of innotec approved
Following the completion of antitrust proceedings by end of September, the EU Commission has approved…
Bayer builds new chlorine recycling plant in Shanghai
Bayer MaterialScience (Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayermaterialscience.com) plans to build another chlorine recycling plant at the Bayer…
Production starts at China’s largest integrated silicone site
Today, Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) and Dow Corning Corp. (Midland, Mich.; www.dowcorning.com) officially…
AkzoNobel doubles MCA production in China
AkzoNobel (Amersfoort, Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) is to increase monochloroacetic acid (MCA) production capacity at its Taixing…
DuPont opens new facility to serve growing titanium metals industry
Yesterday, DuPont announced that a new titanium tetrachloride purification unit has begun operations at the…
BASF and Gazprom boost natural gas production in Siberia
Today BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Russia’s OAO Gazprom (www.gazprom.com) officially launched natural gas…
Global chemicals-industry M&A activity surges despite volatile economy
Today, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, (PwC) released its quarterly report Chemical Compounds: Global Chemicals Mergers & Acquisitions Analysis…
Edwards receives largest order in company's history
Edwards (Crawley, U.K.; www.edwardsvacuum.com) today announced one of the largest orders in the company’s history—the…
AkzoNobel opens Elotex production facility in China
AkzoNobel Functional Chemicals (www.akzonobel.com) has officially opened a new production site in Shanghai, China, for…
Mitsubishi Rayon to acquire Lucite International
The Board of Lucite International Group Ltd., (Southampton, UK; www.lucite.com), has announced that the company…
LS extends site in Pulnoy, France
Laboratoires Sérobiologiques (LS; www.laboratoires-serobiologiques.com), the active ingredients business of Cognis Care Chemicals, has begun to…
LyondellBasell grants Lupotech T license to Borealis
Borealis AG (www.borealisgroup.com) has selected LyondellBasell’s (Rotterdam, Netherlands; www.lyondellbasell.com) Lupotech T technology for a new…
Novo Nordisk invests in new insulin-production plant in China
Novo Nordisk A/S (Bagsvaerd, Denmark; www.novonordisk.com) today announced a major investment in a new insulin…
SulphCo announces positive results from commercial-scale field trials
SulphCo, Inc. (Houston, Tex.; www.sulphco.com), a technology company with a patented ultrasound process to desulfurize…
Outotec and Eesti Energia to form a JV for development of oil shale processing
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) and Eesti Energia (www.energia.ee) have agreed to form a joint…
K-TEK to integrate ASI Instruments and form Solids Level group
K-TEK Corp., (Prairieville, La.; www.ktekcorp.com), a leading manufacturer of instrumentation for liquid-level measurement, has announced…
New Haldor Topsøe subsidiary in Latin America
To further strengthen its presence and services to clients in Latin America, Haldor Topsøe (www.topsoe.com),…
Foster Wheeler wins contract for wax expansion project in South Africa
Foster Wheeler Ltd., (Clinton, N.J.; www.fwc.com), a global engineering and construction contractor and power equipment…
Sale of Pulcra Chemicals is now formally completed
Cognis (Monheim, Germany; www.cognis.com), a global specialty-chemicals supplier, has announced that the sale of Pulcra…
Economic Indicators: Business News
Plant Watch Oxea expands carboxylic-acids production, adds butyric acid October 14, 2008 — Oxea GmbH…
Chementator: A new gasifier slated for its commercial debut
Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.biz) has commercialized a new gasifier design, the Prenflo (pressurized entrained-flow)…
Chementator: A trash-to-syngas process earns a patent
PHREG Technologies, Inc., a startup company in Yorba Linda, Calif., has received a patent on…
Chementator: This process improvement speeds up delayed coking
Decoking in a delayed coker operation is a laborious process that can take up to…
Technical & Practical
Cover Story: Process Modeling Moves Center-Stage
Process modeling has progressed from the "molecule accounting" of steady-state flowsheeting packages to become a…
Pressure-Relief System Design
Pressure relief systems are vital in the chemical process industries (CPI) for handling a…
Condition-Based Maintenance Management Enhances Reliability
Management is a process of managing risk; maintenance management is a process of managing risk…
Engineering Practice: Get More From Vertical Thermosiphon Reboilers
A very common heat exchanger in the chemical process industries (CPI) is the vertical thermosiphon…
Facts at Your Fingertips
Facts at Your Fingertips: Biodiesel Production
Biodiesel can be produced from vegetable oils by three types of reactions: base catalyzed transesterification…