POWTECH 22: Strong comeback for the meeting place for process engineering

Huge joy at getting back together in the halls of the Nuremberg Exhibition Centre: POWTECH, Europe's leading trade fair for powders and bulk solids, brought delight to exhibitors and trade visitors after the enforced break due to Corona. There were around 9,000 trade visitors, increasingly coming ...

Joint Venture KEPCO-Uhde Inc. to co-operate in the field of coal gasification

KEPCO, the largest utility in South Korea, and Germany based Uhde have signed a Joint Venture Agreement. The contract was signed at the head office of Uhde in Dortmund, Germany, with the presence of the CEO of KEPCO, Mr. Ssang-su Kim, the CEO of ThyssenKrupp AG, Dr. Heinrich Hiesinger, and the ...

New Equipment for controlling electrostatic in hazardous atmospheresl

ATEX approval - ACHEMA 2003

At ACHEMA 2003, Newson Gale Ltd will be displaying the Cenelectrex range of Static Grounding & Bonding Equipment for controlling electrostatic in industrial hazardous (potentially explosive) atmospheres. It is essential to ensure safe grounding and bonding procedures in order to prevent ...

ChevronTexaco and ConocoPhillips agree on partnership

Procession of liquefied natural gas in Venezuela for export to the US market

ConocoPhillips to Acquire 40 Percent Interest; ChevronTexaco Holds 60 Percent and Operatorship; Both Companies will be Working in Collaboration with PDVSA ChevronTexaco and ConocoPhillips announced today their partnership in the exploration and development of Block 2 of the offshore Plataforma ...

"Zerodur®" for biggest telescope project in the People’s Republic of China

Schott has received its biggest order to date from the People’s Republic of China for the supply of "Zerodur®"-mirror blanks. The first part-shipment for the main mirror consisting of 40 segments and two further test mirrors will be made in 2002. The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber ...

Krupp Uhde wins second major contract from Iran

Krupp Uhde has won a second major contract for the construction of a polyethylene plant in Iran within a space of only 8 weeks. The customer is the Jam Petrochemical Company, a subsidiary of the National Petrochemical Company (NPC), Teheran. This plant will also have a capacity of 300,000 ...

New TechniData subsidiary in Singapore

In January 2010, TechniData EHS Solutions Asia started operations in Singapore. The new company is a wholly owned subsidiary of TechniData AG. The subsidiary will play a key role in enhancing TechniData’s presence in the Asia-Pacific market. Its key task lies in further developing the ...

Laser process simulation available as app for first time

In laser material processing, the simulation of processes has made great strides over the past few years. Today, the software can predict relatively well what will happen on the workpiece. Unfortunately, it is also highly complex and requires a lot of computing time. Thanks to clever ...

Kinetic Systems, Inc. Appoints Peter M. Maris, President and Chief Executive Officer

Kinetic Systems, Inc., a global provider of process and mechanical solutions to electronics, biopharmaceutical and general industry clients, announced the appointment of Peter M. Maris as President and Chief Executive Officer as well as to its Board of Directors. He will also continue to oversee ...

How to 3-D print your own sonic tractor beam

Last year Asier Marzo, then a doctoral student at the Public University of Navarre, helped develop the first single-sided acoustic tractor beam -- that is, the first realization of trapping and pulling an object using sound waves from only one direction. Now a research assistant at the University ...