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Economic Indicators
Business neWs
Plant Watch
Air Liquide plans four new
oxygen units for China
April 19, 2010 - Air Liquide (Paris, France;
www.airliquide.com) has signed two contracts
to supply four air separation units
(ASUs). Air Liquide Hangzhou, the Engineering
& Construction center in China, will supply
two ASUs, each with a production capacity
of 1,400 metric tons per day (m.t./d) of
oxygen for the Yulin Energy and Chemical
Corp. of Shaanxi Yanchang PetroleumGroup.
These new ASUs will supply oxygen for a new
clean coal technology. Air Liquide will also
supply two ASUs, each with a production capacity
of 2,100 m.t./d of oxygen for the Shandong
Hualu Hengsheng Group. These new
ASUs will be installed to supply oxygen to coal
gasification units at a new acetic acid plant.
Outotec to deliver technology for
Bhushan Power & Steel Plant
April 17, 2010 - Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland;
www.outotec.com) plans to deliver
pelletizing technology to Bhushan Power &
Steel Plant Ltd. (BPSL) for BPSL's steel plant
expansion at Jharsuguda, located in India.
Outotec's solution covers engineering and
supply of proprietary equipment for an iron
ore pelletizing plant designed to produce
3.85-million m.t./yr of pellets. The plant is
scheduled to be commissioned in mid 2012.
Pöyry awarded biomass boiler
engineering project in U.S.
April 7, 2010 - We Energies (Milwaukee,
Wisc.; www.we-energies.com) has awarded
Pöyry Oyj (Helsinki, Finland; www.poyry.com)
an engineering contract for a €185-million
capital project for a new 50-MW biomass
cogeneration plant to be constructed at the
Domtar paper mill facility in Rothschild, Wisc.
The value of Pöyry's assignment is estimated
at approximately €6.5 million. Construction
for the new facility is planned to start in the
spring of 2011 with the biomass cogeneration
facility starting operation in late 2013.
SGL and BMW plan a new carbon
fiber plant in the U.S.
April 6, 2010 - SGL Group SE (Wiesbaden,
Germany; www.sglcarbon.com) and BMW
Group (Munich, Germany; www.bmwgroup.
com) have announced that their joint venture,
SGL Automotive Carbon Fibers LLC, will
build a state-of-the-art carbon fiber manufacturing
plant in Moses Lake, Wash. During
the initial phase, $100 million will be invested.The
fibers manufactured at Moses Lake
will be used exclusively for BMW Group's upcoming
Megacity Vehicle. This new vehicle is
set to be launched before 2015.
SABIC signs an agreement with Celanese
for the construction of a polyacetal facility
April 1, 2010 - SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia;
www.sabic.com) has concluded an
agreement with the Celanese Corp. for the
construction of a 50,000 ton polyacetal
(POM) production facility at the SABIC affiliate,
National Methanol Co. complex in Jubail
Industrial City, Saudi Arabia.The engineering
and construction of the facility is expected
to begin by 2011. The facility is planned to go
onstream by 2013. Total invested capital in the
project is expected to be around $400 million.
Bayer MaterialScience to build industrialscale
facility for eco-friendly chlorine
March 30, 2010 - Bayer MaterialScience
(Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayermaterialscience.com)
has signed a contract with
plant engineering company Uhde to build
a new plant for chlorine production based
on common salt. The plant, which will have
a capacity of 20,000 m.t./yr and be built at
Chempark Krefeld-Uerdingen in Germany, is
scheduled to start operating in the first half of
2011 (for more on the technology see p.16).
ABB wins order for new
aluminum mill in China
March 25, 2010 - ABB (Zurich, Switzerland;
www.abb.com) has won a $20-million order
from Shandong Nanshan Aluminum to
deliver electrical and automation solutions
and engineering services for its new threestand
Tandem Cold Mill in Longkou, China.
The new mill will have a capacity of 400,000
m.t./yr of aluminum coils that will be used to
make aluminum cans and is scheduled to
start operation in 2012.
Mergers and acquisitions
BTS and TU Dortmund establish new
research company
April 19, 2010 - Bayer Technology Services
(BTS; Leverkusen; www.bayertechnology.
com) and the Technical University of Dortmund
(both Germany; www.tu-dortmund.
de) 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 developed and tested in this " factory
of the future. " The construction of the new
building required is being funded in part by
€5 million from the German state of North
Rhine-Westphalia's Ministry of Innovation,
Science, Research and Technology under
Economic Stimulus Package II. Construction
in the Cologne-Flittard section of the
Chempark Leverkusen site is scheduled to
begin in spring 2010, with completion expected
one year later.
Evonik purchases colloidal
silica maker in the U.S.
April 15, 2010 - Evonik Degussa Corp. (Parsippany,
N.J.; www.evonik.com) has purchased
a controlling interest in Harris & Ford Silco,
LLC (Portland, Ore.), from Harris & Ford, LLC
(Indianapolis, Ind.), for an undisclosed sum.
The company has been renamed Evonik
Silco Materials, LLC and will remain in Portland.
Evonik Silco Materials manufactures
colloidal silica and ultra-high purity silica, a
key component of the chemical mechanical
polishing (CMP) process in the semiconductor
manufacturing industry. Financial details
of the transaction were not disclosed.
Joint development of new
organic semiconductors
April 13, 2010 - Merck KGaA (Darmstadt;
www.merck.de) and Plastic Logic GmbH
(Dresden, both Germany; www.plasticlogic.
com) have announced plans to jointly develop,
test and commercialize Merck's new
organic semiconductors in Plastic Logic's
displays. The production and launch of
these new materials are planned for 2011.
Globe Specialty Metals acquires
Core Metals Group
April 1, 2010 - Globe Specialty Metals, Inc.
(New York; www.glbsm.com) has acquired
Core Metals Group, LLC , one of North
America's largest producers of high-purity ferrosilicon
and other specialty steel ingredients.
Globe paid $52 million in cash for the company,
which was owned by the Ospraie Funds.
The Core Metals Group, headquartered in
Coraopolis, Pa., services the steel, chemical
and other industrial markets.
Dorothy Lozowski
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