Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi.co.jp) has been awarded by Statoil, an international energy company with headquarters in Norway, to undertake a concept study for a technology qualification program (TQP) for one of the world's largest carbon dioxide…
CB&I's (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) Lummus Technology has been awarded a contract by Huating Coal Group Co., Ltd. for the license, basic engineering and related services for a polypropylene plant at Huating Industrial Development Area Gansu in China. The plant…
JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) says that its wholly-owned Saudi Arabian subsidiary, JGC Gulf International Co. (JGC Gulf), has been awarded a contract for expansion of ethylene manufacturing facilities for the Rabigh Phase II Project. The contract was awarded by…
Hillenbrand, Inc. (Batesville, Ind.; www.hillenbrand.com) has agreed to acquire the Coperion Group (Stuttgart, Germany; www.coperion.com) . The transaction is anticipated to close by December 31, 2012, subject to regulatory approvals. Hillenbrand is a strategic global diversified industrial company, publicly listed…
Uhde Inventa-Fischer (Domat/Ems, Switzerland; www.uhde-inventa-fischer.com) is to build a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plant for its Indian customer JBF Industries Ltd., a leading producer of polyester granules. The plant with a total name plate capacity of 432,000 metric tons (m.t.) per…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) , a world leader in Specialty Chemicals, today announced to expand the production capacity for Houdry dehydrogenation catalysts. The expansion will be achieved by a low double-digit million Swiss francs investment at its current Louisville, Ky.…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) say that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCm) contract by Lanxess Butyl Pte. Ltd. for a new neodymium-polybutadiene (Nd-PBR) rubber plant…
OCI Construction Group has selected ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH (Uhde; Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) for an engineering and procurement contract for the construction of one of the world’s largest single-train liquid fertilizer plants to be built in the U.S. Uhde was awarded…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) says that Indura, its South American joint venture, has opened a new 84-ton/d industrial gas plant producing liquid oxygen, nitrogen and argon in Puerto Varas, Chile. The new facility, which will include a cylinder…
Novasep (Pompey, France; www.novasep.com) announces today an investment of €30 million to build in Europe what will be the world's largest chromatography plant used for the production of a large volume commercial API (active pharmaceutical ingredient). The plant will be…