Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Petronas, the state-owned oil company of Malaysia, to develop a basic engineering package for three sulfur recovery units (SRUs). Officials did not disclose the contract value, however noted…
SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded a contract by Compañía Minera del Pacífico S.A. (CAP Minería), to provide overall management, detailed engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for a thickened mine tailings disposal system at the Cerro…
The American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) today released its monthly Chemical Activity Barometer (CAB), a leading economic indicator derived from a composite index of chemical industry activity. The September CAB showed a 0.3% growth over the previous month.…
As the first multinational company to open a research center in China in 1997, Novo Nordisk A/S (Bagsværd, Denmark; www.novonordisk.com) now reaffirms its long-term commitment to the country by investing an additional $100 million to expand its state-of-the-art science facilities…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) is expanding its production capacity in South Korea for vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions. The company is constructing a new plant with an annual capacity of 40,000 metric tons (m.t.) at its site in…
JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) says that its wholly-owned Saudi Arabian subsidiary, JGC Gulf International Co., has been awarded a contract for an aromatics plant project from Sadara Chemical Co. (Sadara), a joint venture between Saudi Arabia Oil Company (Saudi…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that China’s Jiutai Energy (Zhungeer) Co. Ltd. has licensed UOP’s methanol-to-olefins (MTO) technology to convert methanol from coal into key plastics building blocks. The UOP/Hydro MTO process converts methanol…
The Global Chemical Production Regional Index (Global CPRI) rose 0.1% in August, according to the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). While the Global CPRI gain continues a string of gains for the past several months, the pace has…
Huber Engineered Materials (Atlanta, Ga.; www.hubermaterials.com, a division of J.M. Huber Corporation, has announced that it is increasing capacity at its precipitated silica plant in Etowah, Tenn. The expansion will add 14,000 metric tons annually (m.t./yr) at Etowah and is…
At the third session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management, the International Council of Chemical Associations called on stakeholders to take action to strengthen the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM), in order to improve and enhance the…