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Repsol enters metallocene license agreement
Repsol’s (Madrid, Spain) Chemicals Division (www.chemicals.repsol.com) has entered into an agreement to license Chevron Phillips Chemical’s proprietary technology for production of metallocene-based polyethylene resins. Repsol will be implementing this technology in its existing integrated site in Tarragona, Spain, which already uses…
Sandvik expands its sulfur technology portfolio
Sandvik Process Systems (SPS; Fellbach, Germany; www.processsystems.sandvik.com), a world leading supplier of sulfur processing & handling solutions for the oil-and-gas industry, has expanded its product portfolio by purchasing the proprietary technology and knowhow of the Brimrock Group Inc. (Calgary, Canada).…
JGC awarded EPC contract for clean fuels project in Kuwait
JGC Corporation JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) and its partners GS Engineering & Construction (GS) and SK Engineering & Construction, both based in Korea, announced today that they received award notification by Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) to provide engineering,…
Bayer expands production for coating raw materials in China
Bayer MaterialScience AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.materialscience.bayer.de) is increasing its production capacities in the Asia/Pacific region to meet the continued growth in demand there for raw materials for coatings and adhesives. Ground was broken at the site in Shanghai, China, on…
GTL joint venture
Velocys plc (Plain City, Ohio; www.velocys.com) has entered a joint venture (JV) with Waste Management (www.wm.com), NRG Energy (NRG; www.nrgenergy.com), and Ventech Engineers International (Ventech; www.ventech-eng.com) to develop gas-to-liquids (GTL) plants in the U.S. and other select geographies. The JV…
German Engineering & Construction: staying competitive in a volatile environment
The member companies of the Large Industrial Plant Manufacturers Ì Group (AGAB) at the German Engineering Federation (VDMA; Frankfurt am Main, Germany; www.vdma.org) booked orders worth €21.2 billion in 2013, a 3% increase year-on-year (2012: €20.5 billion). The industry is…
Novo Nordisk invests in new purification pilot plant in Denmark
Novo Nordisk A/S (Bagsværd, Denmark; www.novonordisk.com) is increasing its drug development capacity by investing 550 million Danish kroner ($100 million) in a new research and development facility in Bagsværd, Denmark. The purification plant will expand the company’s capacity to produce…
Kreisel strengthens its position in southern Germany
On February 15, 2014, Kreisel GmbH & Co. KG (Krauschwitz, Germany; www.kreisel.eu) took over the business of the insolvent Schäffer Verfahrenstechnik GmbH & Co. KG in Thierhaupten near Augsburg. The approximately 30 employees will retain their jobs in the newly…
Foster Wheeler awarded FEED contracts by S-OIL for residue-upgrading project
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says that subsidiaries of its Global Engineering and Construction Group have been awarded contracts by S-OIL Corporation for the front-end engineering design (FEED) for a residue upgrading project at S-OIL’s Onsan refinery in Ulsan,…
KBR awarded EPC contracts for Agrium’s nitrogen-operations Facility
KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) says that Agrium awarded the company two engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for a new grassroots urea plant and to increase the ammonia capacity for Agrium’s Lone Star Project in Borger, Texas. Upon completion, this world-scale…