Business & Economics
KBR to revamp North Fertilizer Plant in Iraq
KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract by First Global Co. to revamp the North Fertilizer Plant in Baiji, Iraq. Under the terms of the contract, KBR will provide a license for its proprietary ammonia process and related engineering…
Topsøe signs contract with Russian JSC Acron
Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) has signed a contract with the Russian company JSC Acron for the design of a 2,060 metric tons per day (m.t./d) ammonia plant. The plant will be located in Veliky Novgorod, where an ammonia…
Jacobs awarded contract by Aurubis Bulgaria
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) says its Chemetics unit in Pickering, Ontario, Canada was awarded a design and fabrication contract by Aurubis Bulgaria AD for two proprietary designed sulfuric acid coolers to be installed in its acid plant…
Jacobs receives contract from Honeywell for Baton Rouge manufacturing plant
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has been awarded a contract from Honeywell to provide engineering services for the expansion of its Baton Rouge, La. manufacturing facility. The expansion enables the Baton Rouge facility, one of the leading refrigerants…
The game changer for 2012
As we round the corner from 2011 to 2012, economists are painting dimming pictures for global economic recovery. For instance, a report from IHS (Lexington, Mass.; www.ihs.com) chief economist Nariman Behravesh says, “World growth will slow in 2012 — the…
Evonik to build a new methionine production complex in Singapore
With the largest of its chemical investments to date, Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) plans to strengthen its core business with essential amino acids for animal nutrition. The Group will invest roughly one-half billion Euros in Singapore for the…
U.S. industrial production slips in November, ACC report says
Citing U.S. Federal Reserve data, the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) said U.S. industrial production slipped by 0.2% in November following a 0.7% gain in October. “The largest declines were in motor vehicles and parts, wood products,…
Air Products: Largest single onsite ASU order ever
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has signed a long-term contract with Shaanxi Future Energy Chemical Co., and will build, own and operate the largest onsite air separation unit (ASU) order ever awarded to an industrial gas company. The facility,…
World’s largest onsite high-purity ammonia plant comes onstream in China
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) says it has brought a large-scale, onsite ammonia plant onstream in China’s Anhui Province to supply ultra-high-purity NH3 to Anhui Sanan OptoElectronics Co., a subsidiary of Sanan OptoElectronics (Sanan). The plant, located at Sanan’s…
Technip awarded a GTL contract in Uzbekistan
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by Uzbekistan GTL LLC an extension of the existing reimbursable services contract, for the front-end engineering design of a gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant, located 40 km south of Qarshi in Uzbekistan. This plant will be…