Metabolix, Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.; www.metabolix.com) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with CJ CheilJedang Corp. (CJ; Seoul. Korea; www.cj.co.kr) for a strategic commercial manufacturing arrangement for specialty polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), including the company's newly launched amorphous polyhydroxyalkanoates (a-PHA).…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) announced today it provided services for The Lubrizol Corp.’s (Wickliffe, Ohio; www.lubrizol.com) recently commissioned chlorinated polyvinyl chloride (CPVC) compounding plant in Dahej, India. The plant, which has capacity to produce 55,000 metric…
Ecolab Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.; www.ecolab.com), a global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services, has changed the name of Nalco — its water and process services business — to Nalco Water (nalco.ecolab.com). The new name more…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been awarded a contract for a project of Chambal Fertilisers and Chemicals Limited (CFCL), a major private sector fertilizer producer in India, to construct a large-scale fertilizer complex in Kota, Rajasthan, India.…
MEGlobal (Dubai, United Arab Emirates; www.meglobal.biz), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Equate Petrochemical Co. (www.equate.com), plans to construct a new world-scale monoethylene glycol (MEG) manufacturing facility at Dow’s (Midland, Mich; www.dow.com) Oyster Creek site in Freeport, Texas. The new Oyster…
Chiyoda Corp.’s (Yokohama, Japan; www.chiyoda-corp.com) subsidiary, Chiyoda Singapore (PTE) Limited, has been awarded an offshore engineering and procurement contract for Indonesia Copper Smelter (ICS) project by PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI), which is an affiliate of Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (Phoenix, Ariz.).…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Saint-Gobain India Pvt Ltd. (SGIPL) to provide civil engineering services for the proposed third float-glass-line capacity expansion of SGIPL’s World Glass Complex in Chennai, India. SGIPL is…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik) has begun to build a plant form the production of organically modified specialty silicones in Shanghai, China. The project is part of a global investment initiative, with a first production expansion commissioned in…
Under coordination by Kelvion (Bochum, www.kelvion.com), a total of twelve partners — within the context of the project MinWaterCSP, for minimized water consumption in concentrated solar power plants (CSP) — will develop solutions to reduce the consumption of water in…
Kolon Plastics (Gimcheon, Korea; www.kolonplastics.com) and BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) signed an agreement to establish a joint venture (JV) in Korea to manufacture polyoxymethylene (POM), an engineering plastic used in industrial, transportation, construction and consumer markets. The 50-50…