Acroni, d.o.o., a Slovenian steel producer belonging to the Slovenian Steel Group (SIJ), has awarded Primetals Technologies, Ltd. (London, U.K.; www.primemetals.com) an order to supply a new 95 metric ton argon oxygen decarburization (AOD) converter and dedusting system to…
As part of the joint venture Elme Messer Gaas, Messer, the largest privately owned industrial gases specialist and the second shareholder, the BLRT Grupp, one of the biggest industrial holdings in the Baltic States, have invested around 5 million…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has signed an agreement to divest 50% of shares in its Spanish operations, Fluor S.A., to Sacyr Industrial S.L.U. (www.sacyr.com), a leading multinational Spanish construction company. The new entity, SacyrFluor, will be headquartered in…
BioOutsource Ltd. (Glasgow, Scotland; www.biooutsource.com) , part of Sartorius Stedim Biotech Group and a global leader in biologics contract testing and biosimilar characterization for the biopharmaceutical industry, today announced the opening of a new facility that doubles BioOutsource’s capacity…
QuantumSphere, Inc. (QSI; Santa Ana, Calif.; www.qsinano.com) says it has completed its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility for the production of the company’s proprietary FeNIX nano iron catalyst product. FeNIX nanocatalysts were developed to address costly production inefficiencies within the several…
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; www.mhi-global.com) and Mitsubishi Corp. (MC; both Tokyo, Japan; www.mitsubishicorp.com) will build a large scale ammonia and urea fertilizer production plant for Navoiyazat Joint Stock Co. (Navoiyazat JSC), a chemical production company of the Uzkimyosanoat…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) will form a global business unit (GBU) combining all of its pigments activities effective January 2016. In the second half of 2016, BASF intends to carve out its pigments business and establish separate legal…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has signed an agreement with Siberwood LLC to examine the construction of new hydrogen peroxide capacity in Russia, using Solvay’s innovative myH2O2 technology, which is particularly suitable for large customers requiring secure on-site production…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Petronas Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG; www.petronaschemicals.com.my) will build a new world-scale production plant for highly reactive polyisobutene (HR-PIB) at the site of their existing joint venture, BASF Petronas Chemicals Sdn Bhd (www.basf-petronas.com.my), in…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract in excess of $90 million by NefteGazIndustriya, LLC, through project developer MAVEG Industrieausruestungen GmbH, for the Afipsky Oil Refinery. The scope of work includes detailed engineering, procurement, fabrication and…