Toyo Engineering & Construction Sdn. Bhd. (Toyo-Malaysia), a Malaysian subsidiary of Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has been awarded a contract to build a bioethanol production facility with a capability of 10,000 ton/yr by a joint -venture company…
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 Petron Corp. for the Petron Refinery Master Plan-2 Project in Bataan, Philippines. Foster Wheeler will execute…
Solvay SA (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) and Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) have entered into an agreement to form a worldwide fluorine gas business joint venture (JV). It will build, own and operate modular onsite fluorine cleaning gas units for the…
Bayer MaterialScience AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.materialscience.bayer.com) has commissioned a new technical center for the development of isocyanate production processes at Chempark Dormagen. The research center was erected in just under a year with an investment of EUR 5 million. “All…
BASF Corp. (Iselin, N.J.; www.basf.com) has invested $50 million to acquire an equity ownership position in privately held Sion Power (Tucson, Ariz.; www.sionpower.com), the global leader in the development of lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries. This equity partnership expands upon an existing…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) announced today that its Chemetics unit in Pickering, Ontario, Canada has been awarded a design and fabrication contract by Ballance Agri-Nutrients for one Cold Heat Exchanger to be installed in their sulfuric acid…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, has been selected by Kumho P&B Chemicals, Inc. (Yeosu, South Korea) to provide technology to produce key petrochemicals for the manufacture of plastics. UOP’s Q-Max and Phenol process technologies will be…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Sonopec Corp. (Beijing, China; www.sinopec.com.cn) today inaugurated the $1.4-billion second phase of their integrated petrochemical site in Nanjing, bringing crucial chemicals to the China market that will support the development of more sustainable local…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has completed the purchase of Graf-Wulff GmbH, a German company that designs, manufactures and installs circulating dry ash fluegas-scrubbing technology for all types of boilers…
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell (NYSE: HON) company, says that it has been selected by The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) to provide technology to produce propylene at a Dow production site in Texas. Dow Texas…