SNF Holding Co. (Riceboro, Georgia; www.snf.us) has announced its plans to construct a new waterâ€soluble polymers manufacturing facility in Iberville Parish, Louisiana. The proposed facility is expected to be built in phases over five years, with a total capital investment…
GEA Ibérica, a Spanish subsidiary of GEA Group Bochum, Germany; www.geagroup.com) has received an order to design, manufacture and supply seven surface condensers for new solar thermal power plants in Spain with an aggregate capacity of 350 MW. Worth about…
Mustang (Houston), part of international energy services company John Wood Group PLC, has received Chevron’s (San Ramon, Calif.) Gold Star Award for Safety Excellence, which recognizes contractors with outstanding safety records. To receive the award, Mustang had to meet strict…
Total (Courbevoie, France; www.total.com), the majority shareholder (55%) of the Vlissingen refinery, exercised its pre-emptive rights over the shares (45%) of this asset that were offered for sale by Dow Chemical Co. Concurrently, Lukoil submitted a binding purchase offer to Total…
Alstom (Paris, France; www.alstom.com) has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with StatoilHydro on behalf of the partners of the European CO2 Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM) for a chilled ammonia (carbonate) CO2 capture plant at TCM in Norway.…
Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) announces the start-up of an additional gas phase reactor at its Schwechat plant in Austria that will enhance its ability to produce superior high-flow materials for the automotive and packaging sectors. The new four-reactor…
Nghi Son Refinery & Petrochemical LLC (NSRP) has awarded Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) the basic engineering design contracts for some of the units of the new 200,000 bbl/d petroleum refinery that is to be constructed in Thanh Hoa province located…
High-performance elastomer seals specialist, Precision Polymer Engineering, Ltd. (PPE; Blackburn, U.K.; www.prepol.com) has completed a three-year, £5-million, expansion of its manufacturing, sales administration, materials research and training facilities in Blackburn. The expansion doubles the size of PPE’s factory to 6,000…
Brooks Instrument (Hatfield, Penn.; www.brooksinstrument.com) has announced its acquisition of certain assets of Celerity’s Instrumentation Div. Celerity designs and manufactures precision instruments and advanced gas and liquid delivery solutions, including thermal mass flow devices, for the semiconductor industry where it…
Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) and the Danish Technological Institute (www.dti.dk) have received 1-million euros from the Danish Energy Agency for a project aiming to turn bioethanol into an economic and sustainable replacement of fossil fuels for diesel vehicles.…