Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) and Grupo Mexico have signed a contract for the delivery of process technology to Buenavista del Cobre's new second copper concentrator in Mexico. The contract value booked in the first quarter 2012 order intake is…
Plant Watch Wacker invests €40 million to expand polymer site in China March 5, 2012 — Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) is expanding its polymer activities by investing around €40 million to build two new production facilities at its…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been jointly awarded, with ENPPI — an engineering company under the Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum — a contract to build a 460,000 ton/yr ethylene plant and a 20,000 ton/yr butadiene extraction plant…
Guodian Northeast Environmental Protection Industry Group, Ltd. has selected Siemens Industry Automation Division (Nuremberg, Germany; www.siemens.com/water) to supply an IPS composting system using the new Mechanically Enhanced Biodrying (MEB) process for the Shenyang Wastewater Treatment Plant Sludge Treatment Project in…
GEA Group AG (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.geagroup.com) has received an order worth more than €70 million from Fonterra in New Zealand. The order will be handled by the GEA Process Engineering Segment. The new whole milk powder plant which only utilizes…
Royal DSM N.V. (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding between its U.S.-based Business Unit DSM Functional Materials and Empresa Brasileira de Biotecnologia S.A. (Ebrabiotech; Araraquara, Brazil) for the launch of a new line of DSM-branded bio-based…
WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) has been awarded the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract for the delivery of the Tsagaan Suvarga copper-molybdenum concentrator project for the Mongolyn Alt (MAK) Corp. MAK is the largest privately owned company…
Samsung Engineering (Seoul, Korea; www.samsungengineering.co.kr) officially signed a contract, worth approximately $1 billion, with LUKOIL Mid-East Ltd. for the project management, engineering, procurement, supply, transportation, construction, pre-commissioning of facilities comprising the Oil Gathering System, Central Processing Facilities and Water Supply…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has acquired advanced adsorption technology assets for its Generated Gases product lines from Xebec Adsorption, Inc. (Blainville, Quebec, Canada) In this acquisition, Air Products purchased the technology, intellectual property and know-how related to structured…
Lucite International, Inc. Memphis, Tenn.; www.luciteinternational.com) says that it is progressing with its investment to establish 150,000-ton/yr production of methyl methacrylate (MMA) in 2012 at its Beaumont, Tex., facility. The company will continue to produce MMA at its Memphis, Tenn.,…