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Clariant and KBR supply technology for ammonia plants in Indonesia

Clariant (Munich, Germany; www.clariant.com) today announced that it is providing total catalyst solutions for two major ammonia production plants in Indonesia, in cooperation with its licensing partner KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com). The new projects rely on KBR’s process technologies combined with…

Fluor Wins FEED Contract for Potash Mining Project in East Africa

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded a front-end engineering, design and optimization (FEED) contract by Danakali Ltd. in Eritrea, East Africa for the Colluli Potash Project following a competitive tendering process initiated and completed in 2016. Fluor will book…

B&W Awarded Contract to Replace Boiler at Ontario Steel Mill

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. announced today that its subsidiary, The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com), has been awarded a contract to supply and install a replacement boiler for ArcelorMittal Dofasco’s Hamilton, Ontario, steel manufacturing plant. B&W…

MHIA Completes Construction of World’s Largest Post-Combustion CO2-Capture System for the Petra Nova Project

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America, Inc. (MHIA; Houston), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi-global.com), has successfully completed construction of the world's largest post-combustion CO2 capture and compression system. Managed and executed in the U.S., the system…

Praxair starts up fourth ASU at Samsung Electronics in Hwasung

Praxair Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) announced the startup of its fourth air separation unit (ASU), a 1,400-ton/d unit, and upgrade of the pipeline system serving the Samsung Electronics Co. (Samsung) Hwasung site in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. The new plant…

Siemens and GEA partner in delivering continuous manufacturing to pharmaceutical industry

GEA AG (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.gea.com) and Siemens AG (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) announce a partnership to bring continuous manufacturing to the pharmaceutical and life sciences industry by offering an integrated continuous tablet manufacturing line. The collaboration will deliver both production benefits,…

Altana acquires Formulated Resins Business from Solvay

The specialty chemicals group Altana AG (Wesel, Germany; www.altana.com) has acquired the Formulated Resins business of Belgian chemical group Solvay S.A. (Brussels; www.solvay.com). The products are sold primarily under the Conap brand name. This business generated sales of approximately $20…

Air Liquide operates the world’s largest hydrogen storage facility

Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has recently commissioned the largest hydrogen-storage facility in the world, an underground cavern in Beaumont, Texas, in the Gulf Coast region of the U.S. This unique hydrogen storage cavern complements Air Liquide’s robust supply capabilities…

MET to supply ammonium-sulfate WFGD system to Sanders Lead

Marsulex Environmental Technologies Corp. (MET; Lebanon, Pa.; www.met.net) and Sanders Lead Company Inc. (Troy, Alabama) have finalized a contract for the supply of MET’s proprietary ammonium-sulfate fluegas desulfurization (AS-FGD) system at their Troy, Alabama lead smelter and battery reclamation facility.…

Axens awarded contract to supply PolyFuel technology in Romania

OMV Petrom has selected Axens (Rueill-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) to supply the PolyFuel technology for its project at the Petrobrazi Refinery. The capacity of the project is 200,000 ton/yr. The aim of the unit is to maximize diesel production by converting…