Enerkem announces arrival of new senior management team member

01-Mar-2011 - Enerkem announced the appointment of Jean-François Normand as Vice President, Project Management.Prior to joining Enerkem, Jean-François Normand was a Director at Voith Hydro (previously Voith Siemens Hydro Power Generation), where he managed multiple hydroelectric projects and also launched its ...

ChemWerth appoints Dr. Jeffrey Bauer as President

Leading supplier of active pharmaceutical ingredients for generic drug formulations plans to expand reach

06-Oct-2010 - ChemWerth, Inc., has appointed Dr. Jeffrey Bauer as President effective. Dr. Bauer takes on the responsibility for leading the day-to-day business operations of ChemWerth, as well as charting its future growth strategy. Prior to joining ChemWerth, Dr. Bauer held the position of Vice President, ...

Bayer Technology Services and the Technical University of Dortmund establish the INVITE research company

New technlogies for green chemical industry

12-May-2010 - Bayer Technology Services (BTS) and the Technical University of Dortmund (TU Dortmund) have established the INVITE GmbH research company, which will operate a new research center at Chempark Leverkusen, Germany. Flexible and efficient production concepts that help to conserve resources will be ...

Univar Names Chief Information Officer

03-Mar-2010 - Univar has appointed Dave Cummings as vice president and chief information officer. Cummings joined Univar following a very successful 22-year career with energy giant ConocoPhillips. He has held a number of leadership positions in Engineering, Operations, Project Management, Business ...

SGS acquires the Intron Group, NL

19-Jan-2010 - SGS announced the acquisition of the Intron Group, Sittard, NL. The group provides inspection, testing, certification, consulting as well as project management services to the building materials industry. In addition to its state of the art laboratory in Sittard, Intron has an office in ...

Bicoll Biotechnology (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. completes modernization of its laboratory facilities for medicinal chemistry

09-Oct-2009 - Bicoll Biotechnology (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., announced that it has completed the modernization of its laboratory facilities for medicinal chemistry within Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, Shanghai to meet increasing demand for its medicinal chemistry capacities. At its central laboratory facility in ...

DSM to sell urea-licensing business to Maire Tecnimont

31-Jul-2009 - Royal DSM N.V. and Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. announced that they have reached an agreement for the sale of DSM's urea-licensing subsidiary Stamicarbon B.V. to Maire Tecnimont for a total consideration of EUR 38 million on a cash and debt-free basis. The intended sale is expected to close by Q4 2009, ...

Uhde wins major polymer contract in Qatar

09-Jun-2009 - Uhde has been awarded a lump-sum turnkey contract by Qatar Petrochemical Co. (QAPCO), a subsidiary of Industries Qatar and Total Petrochemicals of France, to build a 300,000 tonne-per-year low-density polyethylene (LDPE) plant within the scope of its LDPE-3 project. The plant will be based on the ...

Aker Solutions granted engineering license in China

04-Jun-2009 - Aker Solutions has received its engineering license from the Chinese government authorities, granting the company's subsidiary Aker Projects (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., permission to undertake engineering design for China-based projects in the chemical, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries. "We ...

Emerson Digitally Automates $375 Million Expansion of Coal Gasification Plant at Shanghai Coking & Chemical Corporation

Emerson PlantWeb architecture and engineering services selected for project that doubles output of methanol to meet the strong market requirement

09-Apr-2009 - Shanghai Coking & Chemical Corporation and Emerson Process Management announced that Emerson had been selected to provide its PlantWeb® digital plant architecture with FOUNDATION™ fieldbus technology for the $375 million expansion of the coal gasification plant in Shanghai. According to the ...