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Samsung Engineering signs its first deal in Azerbaijan with Socar fertilizer award
Samsung Engineering Co. (Seoul, South Korea; www.samsungengineering.co.kr) signed a contract, worth $650 million (€498 million), with State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (Socar), Azerbaijan’s state-owned company, for the Socar Ammonia and Urea Complex project. Socar CEO Rovnag Abdullayev and Samsung…
Toyo awarded refinery modernization contract in Tatarstan
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been awarded a contract with TAIF-NK (Nizhnekamsk, Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation) to provide services for detailed engineering and procurement for the petroleum-refinery modernization project in Nizhnekamsk. TAIF-NK belongs to TAIF PSC…
BASF to start up new FCC catalysts testing and research laboratory in Heidelberg
BASF Corp. (Iselin, N.J.; www.basf.com) has announced that it will start-up a new multi-million euro fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalysts testing and research laboratory at the hte AG (the; www.hte-company.com) facility in Heidelberg, Germany. hte is a wholly owned subsidiary…
Davy Process Technology and SEKAB E-Technology form strategic partnership
Davy Process Technology Ltd. (Davy; London, U.K.; www.davyprotech.com), a Johnson Matthey company, and SEKAB (Rotterdam, the Netherlands; www.sekab.com), a leading player in the field of the ethanol based chemicals and biofuels, today announced at World Biofuels Markets that they are…
AkzoNobel and Solvay establish a partnership on renewable solvents
Today, international chemical group Solvay SA (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) is announcing an agreement to significantly increase the usage of renewable raw materials (or biobased chemicals) within AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) formulations of paints and coatings. The first of a…
Toyo forms bio-pharm business alliance with Middough
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) recently formed a business alliance with Middough Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio; www.middough.com), an engineering company with expertise in pharmaceuticals. The alliance will strengthen business development in bio-pharmaceuticals, which have particularly high market growth potential…
Jacobs awarded contract for sulfuric acid regeneration plant
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) was awarded a contract by Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemical Co. for the design of a sulfuric acid regeneration plant in Lianyungang, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China. Officials did not disclose the contract value. Under…
Ineos and Sinopec form JV agreement for chemical complex in Nanjing
Ineos Phenol (www.ineosphenol.com) and Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical Co. (Sinopec YPC) have today initialled joint venture (JV) agreements for the design, build and future operation of a 1.2-million metric ton (m.t.) cumene, phenol and acetone complex at the Nanjing Chemical Industrial…
Linde takes over JV OCAP in the Netherlands
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com), has acquired the remaining shares of its partner Volker Wessels Stevin Deelnemingen in the OCAP joint venture (Organic CO2 for Assimilation by Plants). With immediate effect, the supplier of industrial gases is thus the…
Pöyry awarded EPCM assignment in a pulp mill project in Brazil
Pöyry Oyj. (Helsinki, Finland; www.poyry.com) has been awarded an assignment by CMPC Celulose Riograndense for the expansion of the company's Guaiba pulp mill in Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. The assignment consists of engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM)…