Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) and Matheson (www.mathesongas.com), a member of the Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp. (TNSC) group, today announced that onsite construction has commenced on a new, jointly-owned liquid helium production plant near Big Piney,…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced today that Elecnor S.A. (Madrid, Spain; www.elecnor.es) has awarded the company an engineering services contract for two new 50-MW concentrating solar power (CSP) plants in Alcazar de San Juan, Spain. Fluor booked the undisclosed…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has been awarded a contract by Japan’s Marubeni Corp. for the design and supply of two pulverized coal steam generators for the Nghi Son…
Air Liquide (Paris; www.airliquide.com) announces the commissioning of a new high-pressure and high-purity gaseous oxygen production unit in Italy. It was installed in Castelnuovo del Garda, near Verona, where Air Liquide already operates another air separation unit. With a production…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has established a joint venture (JV) with LG Group (Seoul, South Korea; www.lgcorp.com) through Toyo Engineering Korea Ltd. and Serveone Co., both of which are 100% subsidiaries of their respective parent companies. The…
DSM Nutritional Products GmbH (Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany; www.dsmnutritionalproducts.com), a subsidiary of the Dutch company Royal DSM N.V. (www.dsm.com) Brain AG (Zwingenberg, Germany; www.brain-biotech.de) have announced a strategic cooperation in the biotechnological production of water-soluble vitamins. Benefiting from the long-term experience of…
Ecopetrol S.A. (Bogotá, Columbia; www.ecopetrol.com.co) has successfully started-up two new units for the production of Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (Prime-D) and Ultra Low Sulfur Gasoline (Prime-G+), as part of its Hydrotreating Project (HDT) at its Barrancabermeja Refinery, located in the…
Ineos Technologies (Lyndhurst, U.K.; www.ineos.com) has licensed its Innovene S Process for the manufacture of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) to the JSC Angarsk Polymer Plant of ROSNEFT in Angarsk, Russia. The 345,000 metric ton per year…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has decided to build a specialty polymers compounding plant at its site in Changshu in the province of Jiangsu, China. Start-up of the plant is expected in the last quarter of 2012. The plant will satisfy the…
Metso (Helsinki; www.metso.com) will develop and supply an automation system to AW-Energy Ltd.’s (Vantaa, Finland; www.aw-energy.com) demo power plant, the first one in the world to generate electricity from the surge, a form of ocean energy. AW-Energy will expand its…