Black & Veatch (www.bv.com), in a joint venture (JV) with Civmec (BVCJV), will upgrade and expand Western Australia’s largest wastewater treatment plant. The EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) alliance contract with the Water Corporation will see Black & Veatch return…
SNC-Lavalin (Montreal; Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded a contract by Norilsk Nickel to implement a Sulfur Recovery Project at the Nadezhda Smelter, located at the company’s Polar Division in the Krasnoyarsk Region, Russia. This project is one of the…
Within the next five years, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany ; www.basf.com) plans to invest globally more than €200 million in its plastic additives business, approximately half of which in Asia, focusing on capacity expansions and operational excellence. Plastic additives improve…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has appointed Dr. Samir J. Serhan executive vice president, leading the company’s Technology, Engineering and Manufacturing functions, excluding HyCO (hydrogen and carbon monoxide). He also will have profit and loss responsibility for the Liquefied…
The Dresser-Rand business (www.dresser-rand.com), a part of the Siemens Power and Gas Division (www.siemens.com), received an order from Air Liquide Global E&C Solutions Hangzhou Co. for an innovative compressor train to be used in an air separation plant in China.…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) is increasing its production capacities for HDK pyrogenic silica. To this end, Wacker is expanding a hydrophobic silica specialties plant at its site in Burghausen, Germany. The plant’s capacity will rise by 40% as…
Saudi Aramco (Dhahran; www.saudiaramco.com) has acquired the Converge product line and associated operations and technologies from U.S.-based Novomer Inc. (Waltham, Mass.; www.novomer.com). The transaction was valued at up to $100 million. Converge is manufactured from and contains a significant portion…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) has expanded its range of services in Asia with today’s official opening of a new food laboratory at its Technical Center in Singapore. The regional competence center now has a newly created laboratory dedicated…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has signed a long-term contract with MEGlobal to supply oxygen and nitrogen to its new ethylene glycol (EG) plant being built in Freeport, Texas. MEGlobal (www.meglobal.biz), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Equate Petrochemical Co. (www.equate.com), is…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) continued to execute its strategy of providing environmental solutions for growing water treatment applications in China. The company recently started up two vacuum pressure swing adsorption (VPSA) oxygen supply systems for Jiangbin Water Treatment Co.,…