Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Mintal Group Co., a large manufacturer of ferrochrome and stainless steel, on the design and delivery of a new ferrochrome plant to Baotou, in the Inner Mongolia, China. The contract value is…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is investing €12 million to convert 50% of its ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) synthetic-rubber production in Geleen, the Netherlands, to innovative Keltan ACE technology. During 2013, the German specialty chemicals company will implement the…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) announced today that Jacobs Engineering SA (JESA), the company's joint venture (JV) with OCP S.A. (OCP; www.ocpgroup.ma), has been selected to provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for two new diammonium…
Axens' (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) technologies have been selected by Saudi Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabi; www.saudiaramco.com) for its Jazan Refinery & Terminal Project. The refinery, scheduled to be commissioned in December 2016, will have a capacity of 400,000 barrels per stream…
Yesterday, Momentive Performance Materials Inc.’s (Albany, N.Y.; www.momentive.com) Quartz & Ceramics business kicked off an expansion of its specialty quartz production facility in Geesthacht, Germany, with a ceremony attended by government and business leaders, company officials and plant associates. The…
PPG Industries (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.ppg.com) is increasing its global precipitated-silica production capacity by more than 18,000 ton/yr in response to growing global demand. The capacity expansion includes projects at PPG’s Lake Charles, La., and Delfzijl, Netherlands, manufacturing locations. Kevin Braun,…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is strengthening its commitment to produce premium synthetic rubbers from bio-based raw materials. The German specialty chemicals company aims to commercially produce ethylene-propylene-diene monomer (EPDM) from bio-based ethylene by the end of the year. It…
Process Systems Enterprise (PSE; London, U.K.; www.psenterprise.com), providers of the gPROMS high-fidelity process modeling environment and related ModelCare services, today announced the release of its new gCRYSTAL product. gCRYSTAL provides an integrated, easy-to-use, drag and drop graphical environment for model-based…
The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) announced today that its subsidiary Babcock & Wilcox Canada Ltd. (B&W Canada) has been awarded a contract to supply four modularized boilers for the Kearl Oil Sands Project (Kearl) being developed by…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com), within the framework of a cooperation partnership with Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com), was awarded a contract for providing basic and front end engineering services on a Petrobras grassroots fertilizer complex to be located at…