Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and construction management contract by Novo Nordisk (www.novonordisk.com) for its new $2-billion diabetes active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing facility in Clayton, N.C. Fluor has been providing basic design…
Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. (MHPS; Yokohama, Japan; www.mhps.com) has signed a technology license agreement (TLA) for Selective Catalyst Reduction (SCR) System with L&T-MHPS Boilers Private Ltd. (LMB; Mumbai, India; www.lntmhps.com), a joint venture company of Larsen & Toubro Ltd.…
JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.com) has been awarded a contract for the construction of a photovoltaic power plant from Karumai Higashi Solar, LLC. This follows its receipt of the contract for the Karumai Nishi facility in April of this year.…
Wacker Biosolutions, the life sciences and biotechnology division of the Wacker Group (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com), is acquiring a large-scale fermentation plant from Antibióticos de León SLU (ADL) in Spain. Today, the two companies announced the signing of the contract of…
thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) has supplied and recently commissioned Egypt’s largest nitrogen fertilizer complex (photo). It is located in the Damietta free trade zone, some 160 km north-east of Cairo, and will be operated by the Egyptian…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex; www.cbi.com) has been awarded two contracts for a grassroots refinery in China. The scope of work includes the license and engineering design of an alkylation unit and two Chevron Lummus Global (CLG) diesel hydrocracking units along…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) will build a new production plant for its HDK brand of pyrogenic silica at its Charleston, Tenn. site. The new facility, with an annual capacity of about 13,000 metric tons, is anticipated to involve…
Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.; www.bv.com) and Casale S.A. (Lugano, Switzerland; www.casale.ch) have signed a global licensing and cooperation agreement that designates Black & Veatch as a licensee for Casale’s innovative fertilizers, melamine, methanol and related chemical technologies. The…
Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.; www.bv.com) has secured a contract for the licensing technology and related services for sulfur recovery units (SRU) and acid-gas removal units (AGRU) to support natural gas processing on the Jurassic field, a project central…
GPH Ispat Ltd., a manufacturer of long products based in Chittagong, Bangladesh, has commissioned Primetals Technologies Ltd. (London, U.K.; www.primetals.com) to supply a minimill with a total annual capacity of 815,000 metric tons (m.t.) of finished products and billets. The…