Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded a contract from Teck (Vancouver, Canada; www.teck.com) to provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for the Highland Valley Copper Mill Optimization project in British Columbia, Canada. Fluor booked $397 million…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed to acquire all shares in Demil Manutenção Industrial Ltda. (Guarapari, Espírito Santo, Brazil) from Marcos Del Pupo and his children. Demil provides industrial maintenance services for iron-ore pelletizing plants and is located in.…
Solazyme, Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.; www.solazyme.com) and The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) have entered into a contingent offtake agreement in which Dow has agreed to purchase from Solazyme all of its requirements of non-vegetable microbe-based oils for…
The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) says that its subsidiary Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG) has received full notice to proceed (FNTP) for the engineering, design, procurement and construction of a waste-to-energy power…
At the Frankfurt-Höchst, (Germany) industrial estate, AkzoNobel is converting an amalgam electrolysis plant to the modern membrane process and has commissioned ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) to design and supply the energy-saving Uhde membrane cells. This extensive conversion project…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, says that it has been selected by Sinochem to provide technology to purify hydrogen at a new petroleum refinery in China. Sinochem Quanzhou Petrochemical Co. — a fully owned subsidiary of…
A novel cold-dry process makes possible the utilization of fine form-factor silicon, such as granules and sand-like fines, in the production of high-purity polysilicon for solar photovoltaic cells and semiconductors, where such fine-grained material would normally have to be sent…
A new solid-state basic catalyst for forming carbon-carbon bonds has been developed by Masaru Ogura, an associate professor, and his research group at the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo (www.u-tokyo.ac.jp). The catalyst has been shown to accelerate the…
This month, Borregaard Industries Ltd. (Sarpsborg, Norway; www.borregaard.com) will start up an integrated, pilot-demonstration plant to further develop a new pretreatment process for converting biomass into lignin and fermentable sugars. Located at the company’s R&D Center in Sarpsborg, the pilot…
This month, Borregaard Industries Ltd. (Sarpsborg, Norway; www.borregaard.com) will start up an integrated, pilot-demonstration plant to further develop a new pretreatment process for converting biomass into lignin and fermentable sugars. Located at the company’s R&D Center in Sarpsborg, the pilot…