France Toray Buys Remaining Shares in SOFICAR Toray Industries, Inc./JP has purchased the remaining shares in Société des Fibres de Carbone S.A. (SOFICAR), a subsidiary engaged in manufacturing and sales of carbon fibers in France, in which Toray held a 70 % stake, from Arkema, the French business partner with a 30 % stake in SOFICAR and made it into a wholly owned subsidiary.
Germany Air Pollution Control at IFAT ENTSORGA 2012 The waste-recovery and disposal industry makes use of technologies to reduce air pollution in many different ways. For example in the extraction of harmful substances in biomass combustion processes, in environmentally friendly operation of processing plant and in purifying the emissions resulting from the recycling of electronic waste. As a spin-off, more and more systems are recovering energy or secondary raw materials from the emissions streams.
Russia RUSNANO to Establish Production of Energy-Efficient Glass RUSNANO, the NSG Group, which operates in Russia under the Pilkington name, the EBRD and the Russian STiS Group have signed an agreement to establish a new venture incorporating the production of high-quality glass with special coating.
India Essar Steel Completes Capacity Expansion at Hazira The Essar Steel Hazira announced doubling of its capacity to 10 Mt/a.
South Korea Taekwang Industrial to Produce Carbon Fiber According to Yonhap News Agency, Taekwang Industrial Co., a South Korean chemical fiber company, will begin commercial production of carbon fiber starting in March 2012 for the first time in South Korea.
USA Alcoa Plans to Curtail Smelters in Italy and Spain Alcoa announced that it intends to curtail operations at three European aluminum smelters as part of a previously announced restructuring in its Global Primary Products business. The restructuring will reduce the company’s global smelting capacity by 12 % or 531000 t.
Hungary ic-cmtp2 on 8–12 October 2012 in Miskolc-Lillafüred The 2nd International Conference on Competitive Materials and Technology Processes, ic-cmtp2, will be held on 8–12 October 2012 in Miskolc-Lillafüred.
Germany SGL Group Organizes Idea Contest for New Composite Material CARBOCRETE SGL Group – The Carbon Company – launches its first public idea contest about the “Germany – Land of Ideas” open innovation platform www.innovationskraftwerk.de on 11 January.
USA Blastcrete Equipment Company Names Bagwell General Manager Blastcrete Equipment Company announces the appointment of Maury Bagwell as General Manager.
Canada Orbite Awards Alumina Calcination and Its Acid Recovery Basic Engineering Contract to Outotec Orbite Aluminae Inc. has awarded Outotec, a contract to perform the basic engineering of its metallurgical grade alumina calcination process and its associated hydrochloric acid recovery.