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ABB to automate world’s largest iron ore mine investment in Brazil  

ABB (Zurich, Switzerland; www.abb.com) has won orders totaling $140 million from Vale S.A. (Vale) to supply automation and electrical equipment for the world’s largest iron ore project investment, which comprises in the development of a mine and a processing plant…

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Jacobs wins contract from Lotte Chemical  

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) was awarded a contract by Lotte Chemical UK Ltd. to provide construction management services for a new polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plant to be built at the Wilton International Site in Redcar, Cleveland, U.K.…

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Athabasca Oil selects GE’s water-treatment technologies for SAGD project  

Athabasca Oil Corp. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) has awarded GE (www.ge.com) a contract to design and supply an integrated evaporator system for its 12,000-bbl/d Hangingstone oil sands operation located near Fort McMurray in northeastern Alberta, Canada. GE’s produced water evaporation process…

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Air Products supplies integrated oxy-fuel solution to Jinxin Glass  

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) recently signed a contract to supply its integrated oxy-fuel solution to Jinxin Glass in Jiyuan, Henan Province, China to help Jinxin reduce emissions and improve productivity and quality in its glass production. A manufacturer…

EPA proposal adds two microorganisms to exemption list

Normal 0 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; Washington, D.C.; www.epa.gov) is proposing to add two microorganisms (specific strains of the fungus Trichoderma reesei and specific subspecies of the bacterium Bacillus amyloliquefaciens) to the list of ten recipient microorganisms that…

ECHA seeks public consultation on 54 potential substances of very high concern

Normal 0 The European Commission has requested ECHA (European Chemicals Agency; Helsinki; Finland; echa.europa.eu) to prepare Annex XV dossiers for 37 substances on their behalf. Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and the United Kingdom have also put forward proposals…

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KBR to provide Purifier technology for first world-scale ammonia plant in U.S. in nearly 25 years  

KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract by Iowa Fertilizer Co., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Orascom Construction Industries (OCI), to provide licensing, engineering services and proprietary equipment for its grassroots fertilizer plant in Southeastern Iowa. The plant will be…

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BASF building production plant for specialty zeolites in Ludwigshafen  

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is investing in the construction of a production plant for specialty zeolites at its Ludwigshafen, Germany, headquarters site. The plant is expected to start up operations in the first quarter of 2014, significantly increasing BASF’s…

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Foster Wheeler awarded contract for new Terrace Wall steam reformer in Russia  

Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) Nasdaq: FWLT) announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by JSC Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat, for the engineering and material supply of a new double-cell…

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Solvay doubles specialty fluorinated-derivatives production capacity in France  

Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) says it is doubling the production capacity for specialty fluorinated aliphatic derivatives at its plant in Salindres, France, to keep up with the growing demand in strategic markets, such as energy storage, electronics and pharmaceuticals.…