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German E&C: Large industrial plant manufacturing industry takes on new challenges  

“The member companies of Germany’s Large Industrial Plant Manufacturer’s Group (AGAB; Frankfurt am Main; www.grossanlagenbau.vdma.org) booked orders worth €24.9 billion in 2011, an 11% increase compared to the previous year (€22.4 billion in 2010)”, announced Helmut Knauthe, AGAB spokesman and…

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Siemens to provide IPS composting system in China  

Guodian Northeast Environmental Protection Industry Group, Ltd. has selected Siemens Industry Automation Division (Nuremberg, Germany; www.siemens.com/water) to supply an IPS composting system using the new Mechanically Enhanced Biodrying (MEB) process for the Shenyang Wastewater Treatment Plant Sludge Treatment Project in…

U.S. and global chemical production rose in February, ACC report says

Both the global and U.S. chemical production regional indices (Global CPRI and U.S. CPRI, respectively) rose in February, according to the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com).   The global CPRI…

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GEA builds milk powder plant in New Zealand  

GEA Group AG (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.geagroup.com) has received an order worth more than €70 million from Fonterra in New Zealand. The order will be handled by the GEA Process Engineering Segment. The new whole milk powder plant which only utilizes…

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DSM to launch new line of bio-based materials via Brazilian partnership  

Royal DSM N.V. (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding between its U.S.-based Business Unit DSM Functional Materials and Empresa Brasileira de Biotecnologia S.A. (Ebrabiotech; Araraquara, Brazil) for the launch of a new line of DSM-branded bio-based…

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WorleyParsons lands EPCM contract for major copper concentrator project  

WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) has been awarded the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract for the delivery of the Tsagaan Suvarga copper-molybdenum concentrator project for the Mongolyn Alt (MAK) Corp. MAK is the largest privately owned company…

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Samsung Engineering awarded EPC contract in Iraq  

Samsung Engineering (Seoul, Korea; www.samsungengineering.co.kr) officially signed a contract, worth approximately $1 billion, with LUKOIL Mid-East Ltd. for the project management, engineering, procurement, supply, transportation, construction, pre-commissioning of facilities comprising the Oil Gathering System, Central Processing Facilities and Water Supply…

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Air Products acquires Xebec’s adsorption technology  

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has acquired advanced adsorption technology assets for its Generated Gases product lines from Xebec Adsorption, Inc. (Blainville, Quebec, Canada) In this acquisition, Air Products purchased the technology, intellectual property and know-how related to structured…

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Lucite International boosts MMA & MAA production in the U.S.  

Lucite International, Inc. Memphis, Tenn.; www.luciteinternational.com) says that it is progressing with its investment to establish 150,000-ton/yr production of methyl methacrylate (MMA) in 2012 at its Beaumont, Tex., facility. The company will continue to produce MMA at its Memphis, Tenn.,…

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Intergraph introduces SmartPlant FreeView  

Intergraph Corp. (Huntsville, Ala.; www.intergraph.com) today released SmartPlant FreeView, a free .VUE viewer that allows users to display and navigate Intergraph 3D models and view associated plant properties. SmartPlant FreeView will open any Intergraph SmartPlant 3D and SmartMarine 3D projects…