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SNC-Lavalin awarded EPCM contract for Élénore gold project in Canada
SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded a contract by Opinaca Mines Ltd., a company owned by Goldcorp Inc., to provide project management, detailed engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for the Éléonore gold project in northeastern…
KBR selected by CRI Catalyst to develop engineering packages for IH2 process
KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) says it was selected by CRI Catalyst Co. (CRI; Houston; www.cricatalyst.com) as the preferred engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) partner supporting licensed design of IH2 technology commercial scale facilities, having greater than 330-tons/d dry biomass feed rates.…
Jacobs wins another contract from Reliance Industries
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) announced today it has been selected by Reliance Industries Ltd. (Mumbai, India; www.ril.com) to provide engineering and procurement assistance services for the construction of offsites and utilities facilities for a cracker complex at…
Oxea to increase production capacities in Texas, with optimized processes
The chemical company Oxea GmbH (Oberhausen, Germany; www.oxea-chemicals.com) has developed several innovative continuous processes to expand its production at its site in Bishop, Texas, USA. The optimizations will add significant further volume, beyond the already announced capacity increases for potassium…
Evonik expands its market position for C4-based products
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is further expanding its market lead in C4-based products and investing in the expansion of its production facilities. The Group’s 1-butene capacity in Marl (Germany) Chemical Park will be expanded by 75,000 tons, making…
Outotec to deliver gas-cleaning plant for LKAB in Sweden
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara AB (LKAB) on the design and turnkey delivery of a gas-cleaning plant to LKAB's iron-ore pellet plant in Malmberget, Sweden. The order value is approximately €38 million and it has been…
Watlow aquires Semiconductor Tooling Services
Watlow (St. Louis, Mo.; www.watlow.com), an industry leader in the design and manufacture of complete thermal systems, announced today that it acquired Semiconductor Tooling Services, Inc. (STS; San Jose, Calif.) as a wholly-owned subsidiary. The terms of the agreement will…
Neste Jacobs and National Bioproducts Institute sign a biopharma agreement
Technology, engineering and project-management company Neste Jacobs Oy (Porvoo, Finland; www.nestejacobs.com) and the South African plasma fractionation company National Bioproducts Institute (Pinetown, South Africa; www.nbi-kzn.org.za) have signed a service agreement covering production consulting, engineering and executing of services related to…
White Martins starts up New ASU for Braskem in Brazil
White Martins Gases Industriais Ltda., the Brazil-based subsidiary of Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has started up a new air separation unit (ASU) in the state of Alagoas, in Brazil´s northeast region. As part of the long-term contract, Praxair will…
Foster Wheeler acquires Yonkers Industries
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland: www.fwc.com) has acquired Yonkers Industries, Inc. (Cary, N.C.; www.yonkersindustries.com), a 30-year-old firm that specializes in the management of construction and commissioning of pharmaceutical and biotech facilities, with capabilities to also manage the full EPCm (engineering,…