INEOS Styrolution (Frankfurt, Germany; www.ineos-styrolution.com) announced plans to increase its compounding capacity for engineering plastics by an additional 34,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) at its Moxi plant located in Gujarat, India. Expected for completion in 2019, this expansion will…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) signed a Master Services Agreement (MSA) expansion amendment with Chevron Products Company (Chevron) to provide elective construction management (CM) services on an as-needed basis at the company’s refineries located in El Segundo and…
Clough AMEC, a 50/50 joint venture (JV) between Clough and Amec Foster Wheeler (London, www.amecfw.com) based in Australia, has won a landmark contract to provide maintenance services to ammonia facilities in Western Australia that supply international and domestic fertilizer markets…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced its intent to sell the company's Technology business. CB&I is targeting to close the transaction by the end of the 2017 calendar year. "Supported by more than 100 years of technology development, our Technology…
The specialty chemicals Group Altana AG (Wesel, Germany; www.altana.com) has acquired a technology portfolio and research and development platform from U.S.-based NuLabel Technologies, Inc. It comprises innovative technologies for additive manufacturing of sustainable decoration solutions as well as novel technology…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract by PETRONAS Refinery and Petrochemical Corporation Sdn. Bhd. for an isononanol plant located in Pengerang, Johor, Malaysia. Fluor will book the undisclosed contract value in the…
Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo, Japan; www.sdk.co.jp) has decided to acquire assets concerning the Sublimation-Recrystallization Method to manufacture silicon carbide (SiC) wafers from Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation (NSSMC) and Nippon Steel & Sumikin Materials Co., Ltd. (NSMAT) by…
Amec Foster Wheeler (London, U.K.; www.amecfw.com) has been awarded a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) contract by Total Raffinage France, a subsidiary of Total, the French multinational integrated oil and gas company. Total has stated that the Donges refinery, located in…
As part of a project of Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.asahi-kasei.co.jp) verified a newly developed process for diphenyl carbonate (DPC), a monomer used to produce polycarbonate (PC), which is used…
Vestolit GmbH, a 100% subsidiary of Mexichem S.A.B. de C.V. (Tlalnepantla, Mexico; www.mexichem.com), has started up the specialty polyvinyl chloride (PVC) capacity expansion that was first announced in May 2015 at the Mexichem Marl plant in Germany. Initial product runs…