Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by EPAX Pharma UK Ltd., the U.K. subsidiary of Trygg Pharma AS, based in Norway, for the…
Praxair China (Shanghai; www.praxair.cn) has started up a new air separation plant in Nanjing, Jiangsu province for Meishan Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Baosteel Group, one of the world’s top steel makers. This new air separation plant…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has begun work on a new project for Sasol Technology Pty. Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa) for its Tar Separator Project. The new contract is for engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for the replacement…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has been awarded multiple orders, worth a total of €265 million, for technology deliveries to National Iranian Copper Industries Co.'s (NICICO) copper and molybdenum projects in Iran. Approximately €58 million of these contracts will be…
Pöyry Oyj’s (Vantaa, Finland; www.poyry.com) Industry business group has been awarded a services assignment by Companhia Siderurgica Nacional S.A. (CSN) for detailed engineering to finalize the iron ore beneficiation plant expansion at Casa de Pedra Mine in the state of…
BP (London, U.K.; www.bp.com) and JBF Petrochemicals (a wholly owned subsidiary of JBF Industries Ltd.) have signed an agreement for licensing BP’s latest generation purified terephthalic acid (PTA) technology. JBF intends to build a 1.25 million metric tons per annum…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is planning to expand the manufacturing plant for vinylformamide (VFA) in Ludwigshafen. In addition, BASF intends to increase the polymerization capacity in Ludwigshafen and build a new polymerization line for VFA in China for further…
ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH (Uhde; Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) is strengthening its capabilities in the global oil-and-gas business through the acquisition of E&P Global Ltd. (London, England) and its subsidiaries Energy and Power Consultants Ltd. in London and Energy and Power Ltd.…
Praxair (China) Investment Co. (Shanghai, China; www.praxair.cn) has started up a large air separation plant in Wuwei, Anhui province, 100 km from Nanjing, to supply oxygen, nitrogen, and clean air to the Anhui Wuwei coal-based chemicals project of Anhui HuaYi…
Aquatech International Corp. (Canonsburg, Pa.; www.aquatech.com) has been awarded a contract for the design, engineering, supply and supervision of installation and commissioning of a concentrated brine treatment plant at the Chinacoal Tuke Fertilizer Project in China. The project is located…