Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has won a contract from Minera Quadra Chile Limitada (Santiago), a subsidiary of Quadra FNX Mining Ltd. (Vancouver, B.C., Canada), to perform work at the company's Sierra Gorda project in Chile. Fluor booked approximately $1…
Kobe Steel, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.kolbeco.com) says that its Chinese subsidiary, Kobelco Compressors Manufacturing (Shanghai) Corp. (KCMS), has increased production capacity at its compressor plant in Shanghai, China. A new manufacturing line in the expanded facility has been completed and…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed on the delivery of concentrator technology for the Petropavlovsk Group in Malomyr gold mine in the Russian Far East. The contract was signed with LLC Malomyrskiu rudnik, which is a part of the…
Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard, the Netherlands; www.stamicarbon.com), the licensing and IP Center of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Rome, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.it), has signed a license agreement with Hengang Huahe Coal Chemical Industry, Ltd. in the Peoples’ Republic of China for a urea granulation…
Crane ChemPharma Flow Solutions (Cincinnati, Ohio), a Crane Co. business (www.craneflowsolutions.com) and a leading provider of highly engineered products for fluid handling applications worldwide, has acquired German valve manufacturer W.T. Armatur GmbH & Co. KG (WTA; Maxdorf, Germany). Founded in…
GEA Group AG (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.geagroup.com) has acquired Nu-Con Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand), a major global supplier of powder handling components, complete powder handling systems and bulk filling lines. With 167 employees, Nu-Con generated some €27 million in revenues during…
Fuel cells from Nedstack (Arnhem, the Netherlands; www.nedstack.com) will soon produce one megawatt (1 MW) of electricity for Solvay’s chlorine plant in the harbor of Antwerp. On July 26th, the hydrogen power plant will be transported to Solvay, in Lillo,…
NexLube Tampa LLC plans to begin construction of a used oil re-refinery and blending plant in Tampa, Florida using Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) and Viscolube S.p.A.’s (Pieve Fissiraga, Italy;www.viscolube.it) Revivoil technology. The facility is expected to process 24 million gallons…
Praxair, Inc. (Danburz, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has signed a multi-year contract with Hemlock Semiconductor, L.L.C. to supply high-purity hydrogen to Hemlock Semiconductor, L.L.C.’s new $1.2-billion polysilicon manufacturing facility under construction in Clarksville, Tenn. Praxair will build and operate an on-site hydrogen…
A subsidiary of Foster Wheeler AG’s (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by YPF S.A. for the delayed coker heater for the new delayed coking unit at YPF's Complejo Industrial La Plata in…