Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.co.jp) announced today the successful launch of operations at a 25-MW coal-fired carbon capture facility at Southern Company's Plant Barry, owned and operated by Alabama Power. Through the successful launch of this project,…
The bulk of the week’s economic data from around the world confirm a slowdown in industrial activity that has been a trend for the past several months, the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) states in its latest Weekly…
As part of the Obama Administration's efforts to cut foreign oil imports, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu today announced up to $36 million to fund six small-scale projects in California, Michigan, North Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin, that will advance…
Bechtel Corp. (San Francisco, Calif.; www.bechtel.com) has been selected by the National Development and Innovation Committee (NDIC) of the Government of Mongolia to provide master planning services for the development of the Sainshand Industrial Complex. The planned industrial hub is…
A grassroots diesel-hydrotreater unit (Prime-D), licensed by Axens Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net), was successfully put into production at Saudi Aramco’s (www.saudiaramco.com) Ras Tanura Refinery. The 105,000 bpsd (barrels per stream day) unit — one of the world’s largest — produced ultra…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) has concluded an agreement with the Chinese soda ash producer Tianjin Soda Ash Plant under which Solvay will invest €16 million in two steps to acquire a 30% participation in the soda ash plant built…
Lonza (Basel, Switzerland; www.lonza.com) is investing CHF10 million to expand its biopharmaceutical development services platform in Singapore. Lonza’s Development Services business, the front-end of the biological mammalian custom manufacturing process, offers customized and innovative services used in the development of…
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…
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…