A new Web application collects cost and performance estimates for electric generation, advanced vehicles, and renewable fuel technologies and makes them available for utilities, policy makers, consumers, and academics. The Transparent Cost Database (TCDB; available at openEI.org) app provides technology…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by EPAX Pharma UK Ltd., the U.K. subsidiary of Trygg Pharma AS, based in Norway, for the…
Along with other economic data, the composite leading indicator (CLI) for May among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries signals an easing of economic activity in most major OECD countries, and a more marked slowdown in most…
Tyco International Ltd. (Schaffhausen, Switzerland; www.tyco.com) has announced that its ADT North America Commercial Security business unit has officially been renamed to Tyco Integrated Security. This name change reflects the company’s exclusive focus and commitment to providing security solutions to…
Praxair China (Shanghai; www.praxair.cn) has started up a new air separation plant in Nanjing, Jiangsu province for Meishan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Baosteel Group, one of the world’s top steel makers. This new air separation plant…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has begun work on a new project for Sasol Technology Pty. Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa) for its Tar Separator Project. The new contract is for engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for the replacement…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has been awarded multiple orders, worth a total of €265 million, for technology deliveries to National Iranian Copper Industries Co.'s (NICICO) copper and molybdenum projects in Iran. Approximately €58 million of these contracts will be…
Pöyry Oyj’s (Vantaa, Finland; www.poyry.com) Industry business group has been awarded a services assignment by Companhia Siderurgica Nacional S.A. (CSN) for detailed engineering to finalize the iron ore beneficiation plant expansion at Casa de Pedra Mine in the state of…
Employment in the U.S. chemical industry was 0.1% higher (up by 900 jobs) in June compared to the previous month, driven by a gain in non-production worker employment, according to economic data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics that…
BP (London, U.K.; www.bp.com) and JBF Petrochemicals (a wholly owned subsidiary of JBF Industries Ltd.) have signed an agreement for licensing BP’s latest generation purified terephthalic acid (PTA) technology. JBF intends to build a 1.25 million metric tons per annum…