Sener: Five new thermosolar projects in Spain
Sener Ingeniería y Sistemas, S.A. (Sener; Madrid, Spain;www.sener.es) has clinched several contracts for the design…
Foster Wheeler wins FEED contract from Huntsman
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that its Global Engineering and Construction Group…
B&W awarded renewable energy contract in Sweden
The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) announced today that its Denmark-based subsidiary,…
Technip: Technology provider and contractor for the Ethylene XXI project in Mexico
Braskem-Idesa, the joint venture (JV) between the Brazilian Braskem and Mexican Group Idesa has taken…
Uhde is expanding HKM’s coke oven plant
In late 2010 Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann GmbH (HKM; Duisburg-Huckingen www.hkm.de) awarded Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany;…
Toyo wins large-scale fertilizer-plant order in Indonesia
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) and PT Inti Karya Persada Teknik have jointly…
Harper: Carbon fiber processing line for ORNL
Harper International (Buffalo, N.Y.; www.harperintl.com) has finalized a contract with the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s…
Evonik: New catalyst plant in Argentina
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is planning to build a new facility to produce…
Dow and Binhua: MoU for new JV in China
The Dow Chemical Co. (Midlands, Mich.; www.dow.com) and Befar Group Co. (Binhua), today announced a…
EJPC signs license agreement with DPT for world’s largest methanol plant
Egypt Japan Petrochemical Corp. S.A.E. (EJPC) and Davy Process Technology Ltd. (DPT; London; www.davyprotech.com), a…
Foster Wheeler: Steam reformer for Russia
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering…
KSB acquires South Korean valve manufacturer
KSB AG (Frankenthal, Germany; www.ksb.com) has bought the South Korean valve specialist Seres Co. Ltd.…
BASF Chongqing MDI project approved
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf) has received approval for a 400,000 metric tons per year…
Outotec: Process technology for Australia
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with Sandfire Resources to deliver key…
AkzoNobel boosts cellulose-derivatives capacity in China
AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) is to invest more than €60 million in boosting production…
Metso: Biomass power plant in Latvia
Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) will supply SIA Graanul Invest with a biomass power plant…
UOP technology for detergents production in China
UOP LLC Des Plaines, Ill; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, announced today that its technology has…
PetroAlgae and Haldor Topsøe: Partnership to develop renewable fuels based on biomass
PetroAlgae Inc. (Melbourne, Fla; www.petroalgae.com) has entered into an agreement with Haldor Topsøe S/A (Lyngby,…
Shell Global Solutions and Sulzer Chemtech extend strategic alliance
Shell Global Solutions International B.V. (The Hague, the Netherlands; www.shell.com/home/content/globalsolutions) and Sulzer Chemtech Ltd. (Winterthur,…
Uhde to supply turnkey skid-mounted chlor-alkali electrolysis plant to Leuna-Harze
With today’s turning of the first sod in Leuna, Germany, Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu)…
EPA proposes first national standard for mercury pollution from power plants
In response to a court deadline, today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; Washington, D.C.;…
Topsøe: Hydrotreating unit for refinery in Venezuela
Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) and Haldor Topsøe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) have signed a…
Jacobs lands contract from Jubail Chemical Industrial
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received an award from the Jubail Chemical…
CB&I: Kearl oil-sands contract
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract by Imperial Oil Resources for…
Wacker expands polysilicon production
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) has decided to expand its production facilities for hyperpure…
BMS to invest €100 million in Germany
Bayer MaterialScience AG (BMS; Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayermaterialscience.com) plans to invest roughly €100 million in the…
KBR: Aniline technology license to Connell
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract by Inner Mongolia Connell Chemical Industry…
Solazyme & Dow: Bio-based dielectric insulating fluids
Solazyme, Inc. (San Francisco, Calif.; www.solazyme.com), a leading renewable-oils and bioproducts company, announced today the…
Siemens: Automation technology for North America’s largest sugar refinery
Siemens AG (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) has been awarded the contract to equip the biggest sugar…
Huntsman to expand PU production in India
The Polyurethanes division of Huntsman Corp. (Everberg, Belgium; www.huntsman.com) plans to expand its polyurethane (PU)…