Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from DuPont Titanium Technologies (DuPont) to provide full engineering procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for the company's Mexico titanium-dioxide capacity expansion project. Officials did not disclose the contract…
Elevance Renewable Sciences Inc. (Bolingbrook, Ill.; www.elevance.com) has acquired the Delta BioFuels facility in Adams County, Mississippi. The company intends to convert the facility to a biorefinery and derivatives operation in a multi-phase project that will involve an investment of…
Westec Environmental Solutions, LLC (WES; Chicago, Ill.; www.wes-worldwide.com) announced today that Spanish utility company Iberdrola, through Perseo, has chosen to invest in WES for its carbon capture technology. Iberdrola, a one-hundred-year-old company with operations in Europe, Latin America and the…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) is expanding its hydrogen capacity in Texas and Louisiana and extending its Mississippi River corridor H2 pipeline system under long-term supply agreements for 270-million standard cubic feet per day (scfd) with Valero Energy Corp. In…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been awarded a contract for a 100,000-ton/yr butadiene production plant for PT Petrokimia Butadiene Indonesia. the plant, located at Cilegon, West Java, is slated to startup in 2013. The approximately $110-million lump-sum…
SKC Co. (Seoul, Korea) and Uhde Inventa-Fischer GmbH (Berlin, Germany; www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) have signed a contract for the supply of a plant for the production of high-quality PET (polyethylene terephthalate) for the manufacture of films in Jincheon, Republic of Korea. The…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by Showa Denko Carbon, Inc. (www.sdkc.com), to expand its graphite products manufacturing facility in Ridgeville, S.C. Located in Dorchester County, the Showa Denko plant produces graphite…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has acquired a majority ownership of Consulting Engineering Services (India) Private Ltd. (CES; Delhi, India; ). Founded in 1969, CES is a leading power, infrastructure, and civil engineering company in India. It employs…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) and its partner Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp. (TNSC; www.tn-sanso.co.jp/en) today officially started up the new integrated-production facility for monosilane and Aerosil in Yokkaichi, 400 km south of Tokyo. Evonik has thus realized a future-oriented project…
Overall employment in the U.S. chemical industry fell by 800 jobs in May, after posting gains in April and March, according to the latest Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). Citing data…