Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has recently signed contracts with more than 20 recycled-copper manufacturers in China to provide its oxy-fuel solution, and about half of them are already onstream and running. The solution helps to improve productivity and…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded, by Open Joint Stock Company (OJSC) Kazanorgsintez, a contract to provide technology and services for a grassroots furnace at Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.The project consists of the engineering and procurement of an SMK…
Kaneka Corp. (Osaka, Japan; www.kaneka.com) will establish a new manufacturing facility for acrylic fibers Kanekalon and Kanecaron in the premises of Kaneka (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. (Pahang State, Malaysia) with a production capacity of 12,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) and…
U.S. exports of chemicals grew 0.4% in 2013, while chemical imports declined by 1.0%, expanding the trade surplus in the U.S. chemical industry to $3.4 billion, according to the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). The value of the…
Ineos Technologies’ (Rolle, Switzerland; www.ineos.com) Ineos Oxide has expanded its ethylidene norbornene (ENB) plant at its Antwerp facility, increasing its capacity to 28,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr), making it the single largest ENB plant in the world, according to…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with AMEC plc (London, U.K.; www.amec.com) pursuant to which AMEC will make an offer to acquire all the issued and to be issued share…
NAES Corp. (Issaquah, Wash.; www.naes.com), a provider of services to the energy industry, announces it has entered the downstream market, providing capital construction and turnaround management and execution services to process plants in the Texas Gulf Coast, including the Houston…
Samsung Engineering Co., Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea; www.samsungengineering.com) has announced that it has received a contract for the $3.8 billion Mina Abdullah I refinery of the Clean Fuels Project (CFP) from Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC). The Mina Abdullah…
Camfil Air Pollution Control (APC; Jonesboro, Ark.; www.camfilapc.com) announces that its parent, Camfil (Stockholm, Sweden) has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of Handte Umwelttechnik GmbH in Germany and Handte's operations in Switzerland, the Czech Republic and China. The acquisition,…
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) is further strengthening its position in Germany by signing a major long-term supply contract with ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG in the Rhine-Ruhr area, one of the largest and leading industrial basins in Europe. Deliveries under…