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Sonara refinery upgrade in Cameroon

Cegelec (Paris, France; www.cegelec.com), an international group providing technological services to companies and public authorities, has signed a turnkey contract (EPCC) with Cameroon’s Société Nationale de Raffinage (Sonara) to upgrade the management system and replace the instrumentation and control systems…

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Alstom invests in BrightSource Energy  

Alstom (Paris, France; www.alstom.com) says it will complement its strong portfolio in renewables through a partnership with BrightSource Energy, Inc. (Oakland, Calif.; www.brightsourceenergy.com) to enter the high-growth solar energy market. Alstom today announces it is investing up to $55 million in…

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Honeywell and DuPont form JV to manufacture new refrigerant

Honeywell (Morristown, N.J.; www.honeywell.com) and DuPont (Wilmington, Del.; www.dupont.com) today announced a manufacturing joint venture (JV) to produce a new refrigerant for use in automotive air conditioning systems. The new refrigerant has 99.7% lower global warming potential (GWP) than the…

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Outotec to deliver a copper plant in Chile

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Minera Lumina Copper S.A. on the delivery of a copper solvent extraction and electrowinning plant for the Caserones project, located in high mountains in northern Chile. The contract value is approximately EUR 65…

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Toyo wins urea contract from Cuba

Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been awarded a contract from Cuvenpeq S.A. — a petrochemical and fertilizer joint venture between the Cuban government and Pequiven S.A from Venezuela — for a urea production and granulation plant in…

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Construction starts on first Lanxess plant in Russia

Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is today officially starting work on construction of its first production facility in Russia. In the future, Lanxess subsidiary Rhein Chemie will produce rubber chemicals in Dzerzhinsk in the Nizhny Novgorod region for the markets…

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Holly selects GTC Technology’s BenZap technology

GTC Technology US, LLC (Houston; www.gtctech.com) was selected by Holly Corp. (Dallas, Tex.; www.hollycorp.com) and two subsidiaries to provide process design engineering and its licensed GT-BenZap technology for benzene management and reduction. The licensed technology will support Holly’s efforts for…

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EdeniQ & Logos seek DOE integrated bio-refinery funding

EdeniQ, Inc. (Visalia, Calif,; www.edeniq.com) and Logos Technologies, Inc. (Arlington, Va.; www.logos-technologies.com) announced today the signing of a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE; Washington, D.C.; www.energy.gov) to receive up to $20.5 million in federal cost share under…

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Outotec to deliver flotation technology for First Quantum Minerals

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with the First Quantum Minerals Limited Projects Office (Perth, Australia) for the delivery of flotation, thickening and automation technologies for several of their operations around the world. The total value of the contracts exceeds…

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Messer commissions new CO2 recovery plant

Messer Group GmbH (Sulzbach/Frankfurt, Germany; www.messergroup.com) has commissioned a new CO2 liquefaction plant with a production capacity of 150,000 ton/yr of carbon dioxide on the site of the British company Ineos Oxide in Zwijndrecht near Antwerp, Belgium. The Messer Group…