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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
White Martins, the Brazil-based subsidiary of Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com), has signed a 15-year agreement to supply nitrogen and oxygen to Braskem (São Paulo, Brazil), the largest petrochemical company in the Americas by capacity and the world’s largest producer…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has won a contract from Minera Quadra Chile Limitada (Santiago), a subsidiary of Quadra FNX Mining Ltd. (Vancouver, B.C., Canada), to perform work at the company's Sierra Gorda project in Chile. Fluor booked approximately $1…
Bechtel Corp. (San Francisco, Calif.; www.bechtel.com) has purchased ConocoPhillips’ (Houston, Tex.; www.conocophillips.com) leading delayed coking technology, a move that uniquely positions Bechtel for growth in the refining industry. ThruPlus Delayed Coking Technology is a proprietary process for upgrading heavy oil…