Aker Solutions opens new manufacturing facility in Pickering, Ontario Canada

16-Jun-2009 - Aker Solutions has opened its new 90,000 square foot state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Pickering, Ontario, Canada. The new facility will allow Aker Solutions to capitalize on market demand for fabrication of its proprietary equipment for acid plants, by more than doubling its production ...

Gifted guardians of life and the environment: Europe honours the inventors of the year

04-May-2009 - Health and the environment were the big winners when the European Commission and the European Patent Office presented the 2009 European Inventor of the Year awards. In the presence of the Head of the Czech Parliament Miloslav Vlcek and over 400 guests in Prague Castle, EPO President Alison ...

Evonik Takes Third Place in the International Energy Efficiency Awards 2009

23-Apr-2009 - State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology Jochen Homann handed Dr. Hans-Jürgen Kress, head of the Operational Excellence unite (OPEX) at Evonik Industries the award for taking third place in the International Energy Efficiency Awards 2009 in Hannover. The awards are ...

Coating copies microscopic biological surfaces

19-Sep-2008 - Someday, your car might have the metallic finish of some insects or the deep black of a butterfly's wing, and the reflectors might be patterned on the nanostructure of a fly's eyes, according to Penn State researchers who have developed a method to rapidly and inexpensively copy biological ...

SGL Group acquires Dr. Schnabel GmbH & Co KG

Manufacturer of fluorine plastic apparatus for corrosion protection

06-Sep-2007 - The SGL Group acquired Dr. Schnabel GmbH & Co KG. This company is a manufacturer of fluorine plastic apparatus for corrosion protection. Both companies have agreed to treat the purchase price as confidential. The transaction is still subject to approval by the antitrust authorities. The ...

BASF, CogniTek sign joint development agreement for creation of high efficiency heat exchange utilizing ionic liquids

06-Aug-2007 - BASF Corporation and CogniTek Management Systems, Inc., announced that they have signed a cooperation agreement to examine whether the combined use of supercritical carbon dioxide and ionic liquids gives rise to particularly efficient ways of using low temperature heat sources for power ...

Air Products to provide liquefaction process technology and equipment for first LNG plant in Peru

10-Feb-2006 - Air Products announced that it has received an order from Peru LNG S.R.L. to provide its proprietary process technology and main cryogenic heat exchanger for the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Peru. "Air Products continues to advance its technology in close cooperation with the ...

Air Products to provide liquefaction process technology and equipment for new LNG plant in yemen

22-Sep-2005 - Air Products announced that it received an order for two main cryogenic heat exchangers from Yemen LNG Company Ltd. for two liquefied natural gas (LNG) process trains to be built in Bal-Haf, Republic of Yemen. The two heat exchangers will be part of Yemen's first-ever LNG plant. "Air Products ...

Rohm and Haas Company awarded $5.2 Million grant to develop new technology to produce acrylic acid from propane

20-Dec-2004 - Rohm and Haas Company with support from Engelhard Corporation, has been awarded a $5.2 million grant by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Industrial Technologies Program to develop a major new manufacturing process that will use propane instead of propylene to manufacture acrylic acid. The ...

GEA Acquires Heat Exchanger Specialists WTT

25-Oct-2004 - GEA Group has acquired WTT Wilchwitzer Thermo-Technik GmbH (WTT) with immediate effect. The parties to the deal have agreed not to disclose the purchase price. This acquisition strengthens GEA's core business in its Process Equipment division. The profitable WTT Group is based in Nobitz-Wilchwitz ...