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.…
Sasol Technology (Pty) Ltd (Johannesburg, South Africa; www.sasol.com) has appointed the Engineering Division of The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) as preferred Licensor’s Engineering Contractors for a major portion of the Sasol, Fixed Bed Dry Bottom (FBDB) Gasification Technology for…
The specialty chemicals Group Altana AG (Wesel, Germany; www.altana.com) has signed an agreement today to acquire Kometra Kunststoff-Modifikatoren und -Additiv GmbH. Kometra produces so-called polymer modifiers in Schkopau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. These modifiers are specific surface-active copolymers, which are used as…
The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) applauds today's signing of the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) consortium work plan for advancing clean coal technologies. B&W is one of five U.S. companies involved in this CERC consortium,…
Marking a significant step forward for coal gasification technology, GE (Atlanta, Ga.; www.ge.com) and Shenhua (Beijing, China) have agreed to form an industrial coal-gasification joint venture (JV) to advance the deployment of “cleaner coal” technology solutions in China. The new…
Hyperion Systems Engineering Ltd. (Hyperion; Nicosia, Cyprus; www.hyperionsystems.net) will supply the Operator Training Simulator (OTS) for an ethylene cracker and associated units, which form part of a polymer complex to be built in Dahej, India, that will manufacture 1.1-million ton/yr…