Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been awarded a contract for a 100,000-ton/yr butadiene production plant for PT Petrokimia Butadiene Indonesia. the plant, located at Cilegon, West Java, is slated to startup in 2013. The approximately $110-million lump-sum…
SKC Co. (Seoul, Korea) and Uhde Inventa-Fischer GmbH (Berlin, Germany; www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) have signed a contract for the supply of a plant for the production of high-quality PET (polyethylene terephthalate) for the manufacture of films in Jincheon, Republic of Korea. The…
Westec Environmental Solutions, LLC (WES; Chicago, Ill.; www.wes-worldwide.com) announced today that Spanish utility company Iberdrola, through Perseo, has chosen to invest in WES for its carbon capture technology. Iberdrola, a one-hundred-year-old company with operations in Europe, Latin America and the…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) is expanding its hydrogen capacity in Texas and Louisiana and extending its Mississippi River corridor H2 pipeline system under long-term supply agreements for 270-million standard cubic feet per day (scfd) with Valero Energy Corp. In…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract by Showa Denko Carbon, Inc. (www.sdkc.com), to expand its graphite products manufacturing facility in Ridgeville, S.C. Located in Dorchester County, the Showa Denko plant produces graphite…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has acquired a majority ownership of Consulting Engineering Services (India) Private Ltd. (CES; Delhi, India; ). Founded in 1969, CES is a leading power, infrastructure, and civil engineering company in India. It employs…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) and its partner Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp. (TNSC; www.tn-sanso.co.jp/en) today officially started up the new integrated-production facility for monosilane and Aerosil in Yokkaichi, 400 km south of Tokyo. Evonik has thus realized a future-oriented project…
KBR (Houston; www.hbr.com) has been selected to execute engineering design services for three coal-seam gas (CSG) pipelines designed to carry CSG from gasfields in central Queensland, Australia to an export facility on Curtis Island. The project will be executed for…
The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) confirmed today that construction of its new manufacturing facility for production of the Dow Powerhouse Solar Shingle is underway at the Company’s Michigan Operations site in Midland. The new, large scale manufacturing facility…
Plant Watch Strategic partnership for acrylonitrile and sodium cyanide in the Middle East April 29, 2011 — Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.sabic.com), Asahi Kasei Chemicals Corp. (Tokyo; www.asahi-kasei.co.jp) and Mitsubishi Corp. (Tokyo; www.mitsubishicorp.com) have signed…