Mustang Engineering L-P- (Houston; www.mustangeng.com), a Wood Group Company, and Sime Darby’s Energy & Utilities Division have entered into a joint venture (JV) to form a new company called Mustang Sime Darby. The new company will provide project management, design and…
Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) will supply Porvoon Energia with a biomass boiler plant for combined heat and power production (CHP) in the township of Tolkkinen, Finland. The boiler plant will be delivered by the Metso-Wärtsilä joint venture MW Power…
A new steam pipeline installed as part of a joint project between AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) and Dutch waste-processing company Twence B.V. (Hengelo; www.twence.nl) is expected to deliver annual energy savings for the salt production equivalent to providing gas…
CB&I (Houston; www.cbi.com) announced today that Lummus Technology has been awarded a contract by Formosa Chemicals and Fibre Corporation (FCFC) for the license and engineering design of a grassroots cumene and phenol plant to be built in Ningbo, China. This…
The Technology business unit of KBR Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract by Tianji Coal Chemical Industry Group, Co. (Tianji) to provide licensing and related engineering services for a grassroots aniline plant to be located in Lucheng, Shanxi,…
AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has signaled its strategic intent to accelerate growth by investing close to €90 million in a new facility being built in Brazil. The plant, operated by the company's Pulp and Paper Chemicals business, Eka Chemicals,…
Genzyme Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.; www.genzyme.com) plans to build an additional manufacturing plant in Geel, Belgium, to support the long-term growth of Myozyme and Lumizyme for Pompe disease. The company held a ceremony today in Geel to mark the start of…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by Burgasnefteproekt EOOD (a Lukoil engineering subsidiary) a lump sum services contract, worth approximately €70 million, for the phase 1 of a heavy residue hydrocracking complex to be built at its petroleum refinery located…
Minerals Technologies Inc. (www.mineralstech.com) announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Specialty Minerals Inc., has entered into a long-term agreement with The West Coast Paper Mills Ltd. (www.westcoastpaper.com) to build and operate a satellite precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) plant at…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with SNC-Lavalin, Inc. (Montreal, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) to design and deliver a new copper flash smelting furnace and related services to RTB Bor’s smelter in Serbia. The contract value exceeds €60 million.…