White Martins, the Brazil-based subsidiary of Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com), has signed a 15-year agreement to supply nitrogen and oxygen to Braskem (São Paulo, Brazil), the largest petrochemical company in the Americas by capacity and the world’s largest producer…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has won a contract from Minera Quadra Chile Limitada (Santiago), a subsidiary of Quadra FNX Mining Ltd. (Vancouver, B.C., Canada), to perform work at the company's Sierra Gorda project in Chile. Fluor booked approximately $1…
Bechtel Corp. (San Francisco, Calif.; www.bechtel.com) has purchased ConocoPhillips’ (Houston, Tex.; www.conocophillips.com) leading delayed coking technology, a move that uniquely positions Bechtel for growth in the refining industry. ThruPlus Delayed Coking Technology is a proprietary process for upgrading heavy oil…
Topsoe Fuel Cell (Lyngby, Denmark; www.topsoe.com) is expanding its stack production facilities with kick-off in July 2011. The need for extra production capacity arises as Topsoe Fuel Cell expects demand to exceed currentcapacity already in 2013. The facility will be…
Kobe Steel, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.kolbeco.com) says that its Chinese subsidiary, Kobelco Compressors Manufacturing (Shanghai) Corp. (KCMS), has increased production capacity at its compressor plant in Shanghai, China. A new manufacturing line in the expanded facility has been completed and…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed on the delivery of concentrator technology for the Petropavlovsk Group in Malomyr gold mine in the Russian Far East. The contract was signed with LLC Malomyrskiu rudnik, which is a part of the…
Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard, the Netherlands; www.stamicarbon.com), the licensing and IP Center of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Rome, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.it), has signed a license agreement with Hengang Huahe Coal Chemical Industry, Ltd. in the Peoples’ Republic of China for a urea granulation…
Crane ChemPharma Flow Solutions (Cincinnati, Ohio), a Crane Co. business (www.craneflowsolutions.com) and a leading provider of highly engineered products for fluid handling applications worldwide, has acquired German valve manufacturer W.T. Armatur GmbH & Co. KG (WTA; Maxdorf, Germany). Founded in…
GEA Group AG (Düsseldorf, Germany; www.geagroup.com) has acquired Nu-Con Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand), a major global supplier of powder handling components, complete powder handling systems and bulk filling lines. With 167 employees, Nu-Con generated some €27 million in revenues during…
Fuel cells from Nedstack (Arnhem, the Netherlands; www.nedstack.com) will soon produce one megawatt (1 MW) of electricity for Solvay’s chlorine plant in the harbor of Antwerp. On July 26th, the hydrogen power plant will be transported to Solvay, in Lillo,…