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Fluor awarded bauxite-expansion project in Guinea

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced today that Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée (CBG) awarded Fluor an engineering, procurement and construction management contract for the Bauxite Production Expansion Project in Kamsar, Guinea. Fluor booked the $501 million contract value into…

Air Products awarded long-term contract to supply leading glass-wool manufacturer in South Korea

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has been awarded a long-term contract by KCC Corp., a leading glass maker and the largest construction-material manufacturer in South Korea, to supply oxygen to the new glass wool production line at its Gimcheon…

Rembe offers new service in explosion protection

Since spring 2016, the explosion-protection professionals from Rembe GmbH Safety + Control (Brilon, Germany: www.rembe.de) offers several new services within the Rembe Test Center: Customers can test the strength of their components or determine the conventional indices of new research…

thyssenkrupp and Eirich join forces in ore-processing partnership

thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) and Maschinenfabrik Gustav Eirich GmbH & Co. KG (Hardheim, Germany; www.eirich.de) have agreed to cooperate on the further development of the Eirich TowerMill, a highly energy-efficient agitated media mill for the wet grinding…

MHPS to supply first fluegas desulfurization system in the West Balkans

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd. (MHPS; Yokohama, Japan; www.mhps.com) signed a supply contract for the first fluegas desulfurization (FGD) system in the West Balkans for Ugljevik Thermal Power Plant, located in the Republic of Srpska — one of the two…

Evonik puts new silica plant into operation in Brazil

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) put its precipitated-silica production plant in Americana (São Paulo, Brazil) into operation on July 20, 2016. This high-growth silica is used mainly for high-quality low rolling resistance tires. In addition, by building this new…

Air Products invests in ultra-purity gases plant in China

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) says it will build a new plant and associated infrastructure in the Pukou Economic Development Zone (PKEDZ), Nanjing, eastern China, to supply ultra-high purity gases to its customers in the park. The PKEDZ is…

Black & Veatch passes performance acceptance at First Prico-NGL facility

Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.; www.bv.com) today announced the first facility licensing its proprietary Prico-NGL gas-processing technology successfully passed performance acceptance. Located in Alberta, Canada, the facility is using Prico-NGL to extract valuable natural gas liquids (NGL) from the…

Evonik opens new competence center for silanes at its Rheinfelden site

On July 14, Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) held the inauguration ceremony for a new silanes competence center at its Rheinfelden, Germany site, thereby continuing its expansion in research and development in the area of silane technology. The specialty…

Praxair expands helium supply in Central Europe

Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has signed a long-term agreement for the purchase of liquid helium from Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo SA (PGNiG), a leader in the Polish natural-gas market, as well as the only producer of helium in…