VeruTEK Announces Verification of Complete Environmental Remediation of Toxic Soils and Groundwater Using Advanced Analytical Chemistry Methods

VeruTEK Technologies, Inc. (VTKT.OB) announced the development of new analytical chemistry methods to further support their already advanced Smart Environmental Remediation Technologies including Surfactant Enhanced In Situ Chemical Oxidation (S-ISCOTM), a combination of plant oil-based surfactants and chemical oxidation processes that destroy recalcitrant chemicals. VeruTEK is using Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (UPLC/MS™)... Read more..

Thermal Energy Expands Senior Management and Sales Team

Thermal Energy International Inc. announce the following senior management appointments: Peter Bennett, Sales and Marketing Director, GEM Ltd. Peter Bennett joins the Company as Sales and Marketing Director, GEM Ltd. Mr. Bennett is responsible for the overall leadership and management of UK and European sales, marketing and business development activities. This includes expanding market presence and growth of the GEM(R) steam trap product line throughout... Read more..

Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract for New Refinery in Libya

Foster Wheeler Ltd. announced that its Milan-based subsidiary Foster Wheeler Italiana S.p.A., part of its Global Engineering and Construction Group, has been awarded a contract by Zwara Oil Refinery Company Limited (ZORCO) for consultancy and project management services for a planned new 200,000 barrels per stream day crude oil refinery at Mellita, near Zwara, in the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. ZORCO is a project company in... Read more..

Foster Wheeler Awarded Coal-to-Liquids Feasibility Study in China

Foster Wheeler Ltd. announced that its subsidiaries, Foster Wheeler Energy Limited and Foster Wheeler International Engineering & Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., together with its consortium partner, Wuhuan Engineering Company, have been awarded contracts by Sasol Synfuels International (Proprietary) Limited (Sasol) and Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group Company Ltd. (Shenhua) to perform a feasibility study for an 80,000 barrels per day coal-to-liquids... Read more..

Aquatech Awarded a Contract in California for Zero Liquid Discharge

Aquatech International Corporation, a leader in the field of water and wastewater treatment, desalination, water reuse, and zero liquid discharge, has recently received an order from Gemma Power Systems for the Colusa Power Station in Maxwell, California. Aquatech will design, manufacture and supply Potable Ultrafiltration, Wastewater Ultrafiltration, Reverse Osmosis and a wastewater Forced Circulation Crystallizer. This equipment will receive surface... Read more..

The Linde Group is to build a new air separation plant in the border region next to Basel

The technology group The Linde Group, via its Swiss subsidiary PanGas AG, is to build a new air separation plant in Muttenz, in the Swiss canton of Basel-Land, for around 68 million Swiss francs (44 million euro). The new plant, which will have a capacity of over 500 tons of liquefied nitrogen, oxygen and argon per day will come on stream in the late autumn of 2010. “This new air separation plant will enable us to increase security of supply,... Read more..

Timminco Announces Increase in Revolving Line of Credit

Timminco Limited announced that its Credit Agreement with Bank of America, N.A. has been amended to increase the maximum revolving credit line to US$50.0 million from US $32.8 million. The Revolver bears interest at US prime rate plus 0.5% to 1.25%, does not require minimum repayments and is secured by Timminco’s assets. The availability of the Revolver is subject to the borrowing base net of an availability reserve. The Credit Agreement expires... Read more..

Authentix Extends Swaziland Fuel Marking Contract

Authentix, Inc.®, today announced that the African nation of Swaziland has extended its fuel authentication contract with Authentix through 2009. The Authentix program has helped Swaziland increase the sale of legal tax paid fuel by more than 20% and has resulted in a corresponding drop in the number of commercial and retail sites illegally selling smuggled fuel. Swaziland originally implemented the Authentix program in 2004 to combat wide scale... Read more..

Air Liquide Industrial U.S. LP Announces Price Increases

Air Liquide Industrial U.S. LP, the subsidiary of American Air Liquide Holdings, Inc. that supplies bulk industrial gases throughout the U.S., announced today that it will raise prices for its industrial gas customers. Prices for bulk oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen will increase approximately 15 percent. Carbon dioxide and dry ice prices will increase 10 percent. Prices for helium, which has been impacted worldwide by increased demand and limited sources,... Read more..

Arsenal Capital to Acquire Ferro Corporation’s Fine Chemicals Business

Arsenal Capital Partners, a leading New York-based private equity firm that invests in middle-market specialty industrial, healthcare, and financial services companies, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ferro Corporation’s Fine Chemicals business, a leading manufacturer of electrolytes used in the manufacture of lithium ion batteries, as well as high performance intermediates for other key end products, for... Read more..