Use this visual mapping method to assess functional qualifications A variety of factors — including a shift in the median age of workers worldwide and the impending skills shortage due to attrition and early retirements — have created a need…
Sener Ingeniería y Sistemas, S.A. (Sener; Madrid, Spain;www.sener.es) has clinched several contracts for the design and supply of solar fields in Spain: the Aste 1A and Aste 1B, Termosolar Soluz Guzmán, Consol-Orellana and La Africana plants. With these five new…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that its Global Engineering and Construction Group has received a contract from Huntsman (Europe) BVBA to undertake the front-end engineering design (FEED) for the expansion of Huntsman's Isocyanates Facility at Caojing, in…
The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) announced today that its Denmark-based subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Vølund A/S (B&W Vølund), has been awarded a contract worth more than $30 million to design and supply a boiler, combustion system,…
Braskem-Idesa, the joint venture (JV) between the Brazilian Braskem and Mexican Group Idesa has taken another important step for the development of its Ethylene XXI project in Mexico. The JV has chosen Technip (Paris; www.technip.com) as technology provider for the…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is building an integrated production plant for organic specialty surfactants at its site in Shanghai, China. With an investment in the upper double-digit million euro range, the production network is scheduled to begin operation…
In late 2010 Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann GmbH (HKM; Duisburg-Huckingen www.hkm.de) awarded Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) a contract to build a second coke oven battery at its Duisburg Huckingen site as well as to expand the gas treatment unit and…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) and PT Inti Karya Persada Teknik have jointly received a notice of bidding award for a fertilizer project from the state-owned Indonesian fertilizer company, PT Pupuk Kalimantan Timur (Kaltim). The plant will be…
Harper International (Buffalo, N.Y.; www.harperintl.com) has finalized a contract with the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for a full pilot scale carbon fiber process line valued at greater than $12 million. The line is a…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is planning to build a new facility to produce catalysts for the manufacture of biodiesel in Argentina. Basic engineering for this plant, which will have capacity of over 60,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr),…