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CB&I lands contract for Kearl Oil Sands Expansion Project
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) has been awarded a contract, valued in excess of $750 million, by Imperial Oil Resources Ventures Ltd. for work on the Kearl Expansion Project in Alberta, Canada. CB&I’s work scope on the expansion project includes…
Sartorius Stedim Biotech and G-Con Manufacturing announce global collaboration
Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB; Göttingen, Germany; www.sartorius-stedim.com) and G-Con Manufacturing, LLC (G-Con; College Station, Tex.; www.gconbio.com) have agreed to a global collaboration to offer highly advanced and flexible production platforms for the biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry. The new product line will…
UOP to provide technology for petrochemical and fuels production in South Korea
UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, has been selected by Samsung Total Petrochemicals Co. to provide technologies for the production of key petrochemicals and high-quality diesel and jet fuel at its complex in Daesan, South Korea. The…
BASF to build an integrated TDI plant in Ludwigshafen
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) says it will build a single-train 300,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) production plant for toluene diisocyanate (TDI) and expand additional plants for its precursors at its site in Ludwigshafen. These include the construction of…
Toyo awarded contract for a bioethanol production facility in Malaysia
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 wins EPC contract for Petron refinery upgrade in the Philippines
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…
Bayer MaterialScience commissions new hydrogenation technical center
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…
Solvay and Air Liquide form fluorine-gas JV for high-tech industries
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…
BASF invests $50 million to acquire equity ownership position in Sion Power
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…
BASF and Sinopec complete second phase of Nanjing
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…