Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) says that its joint venture (JV) with AMEC and Balfour Beatty has been selected by Sellafield Ltd. to deliver its Box Encapsulation Plant (BEP) project in West Cumbria, U.K. Sellafield officials noted that…
After having worked together for years across the globe, GEA Process Engineering (Søborg, Denmark; www.gep.com) announces the acquisition of Scan-Vibro A/S from Svendborg in Denmark. The acquisition is a perfect match and the plan is to further grow and develop…
ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) is making its Steam Active Reforming (STAR) process available to Formosa Plastics Corp. (FPC) for a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant in Texas. The PDH plant is to be built at the petrochemical complex…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded an engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction contract by Fort Hills Energy L.P. for the utilities scope of the Fort Hills oil sands mining project. The project is located about 90 km north of…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has signed a contract with Norilsk Nickel for the delivery of minerals processing technology and equipment to the Bystrinskoe copper concentrator in the Chita Region in Russia. The parties do not disclose the contract price,…
On September 15, Sulzer Ltd. (Winterthur, Switzerland; www.sulzer.com) agreed to acquire Advanced Separation Company B.V. (ASCOM) and ProLabNL B.V., (both Arnhem, the Netherlands). These acquisitions expand the offering of the division Sulzer Chemtech for gas-liquid and liquid-liquid separation technologies and…
Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany; www.merckgroup.com) Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, Mo.; www.sigma-aldrich.com) have entered into a definitive agreement under which Merck will acquire Sigma-Aldrich for $17.0 billion (€13.1 billion), establishing one of the leading players in the $130 billion global life science…
Siemens AG (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) executes on its Vision 2020 with a decisive move to strengthen its core. The company has entered into an agreement with Dresser-Rand (Houston), which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, to acquire all…
Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS; Yokohama, Japan; www.mpshq.com) has received an order from ENEA Wytwarzanie S.A., a power producer in Poland, for two sets of selective catalytic reduction (SCR) deNOx system for installation at Units 1 and 2 of the…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has opened a new office in Manila, the Philippines, as part of the company's expansion in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. The new office was inaugurated by Stuart Sneyd, president of Outotec's APAC region, in…