Mobile Navigation

Business & Economics

Member Exclusive

Air Products to expand nitrogen capacity in Korea  

Air Products (Allentown, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) says it will increase production of gaseous nitrogen and expand its nitrogen pipeline in the Gumi National Industrial Complex, North Gyeongsang Province, Korea to serve the increasing demand of its electronics customers in the country’s…

Member Exclusive

Praxair China supplies combustion technology to Shandong Steel Mill  

Praxair (China) Investment Co. (Shanghai; www.praxair.cn) has signed a combustion equipment contract with Shandong Guangfu Group Co. to implement the Praxair proprietary oxy-fuel technology for this new customer, one of the leading steel and iron enterprises in Shandong province, North…

Member Exclusive

 SGL Group breaks ground for a new graphite-production center in Bonn  

SGL Group – The Carbon Company (Wiesbaden, Germany; www.sglgroup.com) today celebrated the construction of a new production center for the manufacture of isostatic graphite. Construction is scheduled to start in September while work on the production facility will be completed…

Member Exclusive

Outotec to deliver gas cleaning and sulfuric acid plant technology to Uzbekistan  

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with OJSC Almalyk Mining & Metallurgical Co. (AMMC) for the design and delivery of a gas cleaning and sulfuric acid plant to AMMC's existing copper production facilities, located near Almalyk, Uzbekistan.…

Member Exclusive

Parsons: Lead D-B contractor for depleted Uranium deconversion facility  

Parsons (Pasadena, Calif.; www.parsons.com) has been selected by International Isotopes Inc., a leading manufacturer of nuclear medicine products, as the prime contractor for the design-build (D-B) of the planned depleted uranium deconversion facility in Lea County, New Mexico This contract…

Member Exclusive

Pall announces expansion plans in Brazil  

Pall Corp. (Port Washington, N.Y.; www.pall.com), a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire its long-time Brazilian distribution partner, Engefiltro (Sao Paulo; www.engefiltro.com.br) . The acquisition will strengthen Pall’s…

Member Exclusive

Foster Wheeler and Socar to form a new JV company in Azerbaijan  

A subsidiary of Foster Wheeler AG’s (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) Global Engineering and Construction Group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate to form a jointly-owned company with The State Oil Co. of Azerbaijan Republic (Socar) in the Republic…

Member Exclusive

Outotec to deliver concentrator technology for the Miheevsky project in Russia  

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland: www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with ZAO Miheevsky GOK, a subsidiary of Russian Copper Co., for the design and delivery of a new copper concentrator for the Miheevsky porphyry-copper project located in Chelyabinsk, Russia. The contract…

China’s industrial accelerates compared to last year, ACC report says

In June, China’s industrial output accelerated to 15.1% over a year ago at this time, up from 13.3% year-to-year (Y/Y) in May, according to data compiled in the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Trends report from the American Chemistry Council…

Member Exclusive

Outotec to deliver alumina calcination technology to Ma’aden Alcoa JV in Saudi Arabia  

Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Ma'aden Bauxite Alumina Co., a joint venture (JV) between Saudi Arabian Mining Co. (Ma'aden) and Alcoa in Saudi Arabia, on the delivery of two calciners to the JV’s  integrated aluminum complex at…