Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has received the global marketing rights for the Ausmelt Top Submerged Lance (TSL) technology for the fuming of zinc bearing residues from Korea Zinc Co. Prior to the Outotec acquisition of Ausmelt Ltd. in 2010,…
CP Kelco (Atlanta, Ga.; www.cpkelco.com), a world-leading carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) producer, today announces plans to increase capacity at its production facility in Äänekoski, Finland. CP Kelco will be expanding purified CMC capacity up to 25% at this facility over the next…
Normal 0 According to the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA; Helsinki, Finland; echa.europa.eu) Committee for Risk Assessment (RAC) announced on December 7, 2012, that it disagreed with a request to classify formaldehyde as…
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Stamicarbon B.V. (Sittard, The Netherlands; www.stamicarbon.com), the Licensing and IP Center of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.it), has been awarded two contracts for a new urea plant with Inner Mongolia Erdos Chemical Industry Group Co. in the People’s Republic…
AMEC (London, U.K.; www.amec.com) has been awarded a $528 million (£330 million) Project Management Consultancy (PMC) contract by the Kuwait National Petroleum Co. (KNPC) for a new petroleum refinery at Al Zour, Kuwait. When completed in 2018, the multi-billion dollar…
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.com) says that its main subsidiary Tecnimont S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) has been awarded by Etileno XXI Services B.V., an engineering and procurement contract on lump-sum basis for the realization of a 300,000-ton/yr low-density polyethylene (LDPE)…
The Global Chemical Production Regional Index (Global CPRI) was flat in October, following 10 months of gains, according to data from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). In its most recent Weekly Chemistry and Economic Report, ACC…
Sasol (Johannesburg, South Africa; www.sasol.com) today announced it will proceed with the front-end engineering and design (FEED) phase for an integrated, 96,000 bbl/d gas-to-liquids (GTL) facility and a world-scale ethane cracker with downstream derivatives, at its Lake Charles site…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded a new project by Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden). Fluor’s scope of work is to provide project management consulting (PMC) services related to the development of the Umm Wu’al greenfield phosphate project and…