On 31 March 2012, the Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj visited North Rhine-Westphalia accompanied by a major business delegation during a five-day state visit to Germany. On this occasion ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH (Uhde; Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) and the representatives of the…
KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) says it will design and construct an ethylene furnace for Ineos Olefins & Polymers USA (Ineos) that upon commissioning will provide the highest achievable ethylene yields in the industry. The executed agreements with Ineos include provision of…
The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) says that its subsidiary Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG) has been awarded a contract valued at more than $30 million to design and supply a selective catalytic…
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract valued at about $300 million, by Williams Olefins, LLC for a petrochemicals expansion project in Geismar, Louisiana. The scope of the award includes the license and basic engineering for the…
Ube Industries, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.ube-ind.co.jp) says it is adding a production facility for battery separators to the Sakai Factory located in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture. The move comes in response to growing demand for separators in lithium-ion batteries used…
Russian oil giant Rosneft has selected Haldor Topsøe A/S’s (Lyngby, Denmaek; www.topsoe.com) technology for two hydrogen units at Kuibyshev and Syzran Refineries. Both units will supply hydrogen for the production of ultra-low sulfur diesel. The diesel produced will meet the…
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.it) has been awarded contracts for a total amount of approximately €260 million for EPC and engineering services activities. In Bratislava (Slovak Republic), the Group has received the award for an Engineering-Procurement-Construction (EPC) Contract on…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) is jointly developing with Peróxidos do Brasil a new concept of small cost-effective hydrogen-peroxide production units for installation at its customers' sites. This onsite H2O2 production concept is based on Solvay's new proprietary and innovative…
A new plant for the manufacture of oxidized polyethylene (PE) waxes went into operation at the BASF SE (www.basf.com) site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The plant manufactures high quality oxidized waxes according to BASF’s own process. The new plant will improve…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCm) services contract by Total Raffinage-Chimie for the revamp of a hydrodesulfurization unit at…