Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) says it will establish a new manufacturing campus in Zhangjiagang, China, to support growing demand in Asia for energy technology and advanced materials produced by its Performance Materials and Technologies (PMT; Morris Township, N.J.) business. The initial phase…
Ametek, Inc. (Berwyn, Pa.; www.ametek.com) has acquired Creaform, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of portable 3-D measurement technologies and a provider of 3-D engineering services for approximately $120 million. Based near Québec City, Canada, the privately held company has annual…
AkzoNobel (Amsterdam; www.AkzoNobel.com) has strengthened its manufacturing footprint in India by opening a new €20 million decorative paints plant in Gwalior, which will have a capacity of 55 million L/yr. The new Greenfield facility – AkzoNobel’s sixth factory in India…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) :JEC) announced today that it was awarded a contract from Codelco’s Radomiro Tomic Division for sustaining capital services for its Radomiro Tomic (RT) copper mine in Calama, Antofagasta, Chile. The three-year contract has…
EuroChem (Moscow, Russia; www.eurochem.ru), one of the world's largest fertilizer companies, today announces the launch of drilling and blasting operations at its phosphate rock development project in Kazakhstan. The large-scale development of the phosphate rock deposit is carried out by…
WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) announces the recent award of an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract by Invista for the development of a new hexamethylene diamine (HMD) plant at Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park. The plant will produce…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; Washington, D.C.; www.epa.gov) is finalizing a rule that will allow the agency to restrict imports of potentially harmful perfluorinated chemicals that could be used in carpets. The regulation will require companies to report to…
Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc. (Columbus, Ohio; www.momentive.com) has announced that it has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Kanoria Chemicals & Industries Limited (Kanoria) to form a joint venture (JV) that would construct a new phenolic specialty resins…
Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.; www.bv.com) has been selected as the Engineer of Record for the Marine Works and Desalination components on the $3.43 billion Escondida Water Supply (EWS) project in Chile. Black & Veatch's role is leading the…
The partial shutdown of the federal government earlier this month didn’t take the steam out of the U.S. economy, according to the American Chemistry Council’s (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) monthly Chemical Activity Barometer (CAB) released today. The CAB is a…