New manager for Sandvik’s Tube & Pipe division

Sandvik Steel has appointed Mr Peter Gossas as Manager of the Company’s Tube & Pipe Division.

Air Products’ recovery process selected for Texas

Air Products and Chemicals Inc. has been selected to supply a hydrocarbon and nitrogen recovery system for a new polyethylene manufacturing plant to be owned by Chevron Phillips Chemical Company and Solvay Polymers Inc.

Vacuum inlet trap for condensables and solids

MV Products of North Billerica, Massachusetts, USA has introduced a new high-capacity vacuum inlet and exhaust trap made of stainless steel gauze or micron-rated polypropylene.

Russia’s Slavneft to develop oilfield in Sudan

Russian-Belarus oil firm Slavneft has signed a joint venture deal to develop an oilfield in Sudan and was now waiting for a production sharing agreement.

Allegheny appointment

Allegheny Technologies Incorporated announced today that James C. Diggs, 53, senior vice president and general counsel for PPG Industries, Inc., has been elected to the company's Board of Directors.

Fluor announces new appointment

Fluor Corporation announced that J. Michael Gallagher has joined the company's Mining and Minerals unit as senior vice president of Operations in the Americas.

WestFarm Foods to expand in Idaho’s Magic Valley

West Farm Foods plant to construct a technologically advanced, 70,500 square foot dehydration facility along side its existing milk condensing plant in Jerome, Idaho.

Russia’s Sibneft bids to extract oil in Kuwait

Russia's sixth largest oil producer OAO Sibneft will take part in a tender to develop four large oil fields in North Kuwait, Sibneft's spokesman said.

DCH receives order for 5kw fuel cell

DCH Technology, Inc. a manufacturer of hydrogen fuel cells and hydrogen-specific sensors, announced that the Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) has ordered a 5kW DCH Enable(TM) fuel cell power system with a natural gas reformer for testing and demonstration.

Fuel cell breakthrough

Altair International Inc. announces that its unique, proprietary technology the company appears to have solved the material mismatch problem for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC).