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Airgas to hold job fair at business center in Tulsa

There is no pdf available for this short news item Airgas, Inc. (Radnor, Pa.; www.airgas.com), with support from the Tulsa Metro Chamber and Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett,  announced that it will hold a job fair to fill more than 60…

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KBR awarded VCC license and basic-engineering package for a refinery in Russia  

KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) was awarded a contract by TAIF Group to provide licensing and engineering services for the Veba Combi Cracker (VCC) to be implemented at the Nizhnikamsk petroleum refinery in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. Under the terms of…

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Jacobs receives four contracts from Arkema to support PVC projects in China  

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) says that it is executing four contracts from Arkema France for basic engineering services to support the provision of Arkema's proprietary suspension and emulsion technology to four of its clients in China. Officials…

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Fluor awarded biofuels demonstration plant by Joule Unlimited  

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract by Joule Unlimited, Inc. (Bedford, Mass. www.jouleunlimited.com), to design and build a biofuels demonstration facility in New Mexico. Fluor booked the undisclosed contract value in…

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Linde Engineering Dresden purchases Choren’s Carbo-V-Technology  

Linde Engineering Dresden GmbH (www.linde.com) has acquired the Carbo-V Technology of the insolvent Choren Industries GmbH (Freiberg, Germany) from the insolvency administrator Dr. Bruno M. Kübler. The Carbo-V Technology (for flowsheet, see Chem. Eng., August 2003, p. 16; www.chemengonline.com/articles/2003/NewsChem/NewsChem08012003_14.html) constitutes…

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Toyo invests in Indonesian engineering company  

Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) has acquired 47% of shares of a major engineering company, PT. Inti Karya Persada Teknik (IKPT; Jakarta, Indonesia; www.ikpt.com). IKPT, an engineering company founded in 1982, has a lot of experience in engineering,…

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Air Liquide invests in new ASU in South Africa  

Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed a major long-term contract with Evraz Highveld Steel and Vanadium, the second-largest steel producer in South Africa. Air liquide is investing around €40 million in a new air separation unit (ASU), with a…

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Praxair sell advanced components business to FM Industries  

Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has executed a definitive agreement by which Praxair sold its advanced components business to FM Industries, Inc. (Fremont, Calif.). FM Industries is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NGK Insulators of Japan. Terms of the transaction were…

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Fluor to design, build, operate and maintain 125-MW PV facility in Arizona  

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) says that Arlington Valley Solar Energy II, LLC (AVSE II), a member of LS Power Group, has awarded Fluor a lump-sum engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract, as well as a separate contract for ongoing…

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JGC wins closed cooling-water facility rehabilitation project in Iraq  

JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.co.jp) has been awarded a contract for a project to renovate cooling water facilities at a thermal power plant in Nassiriyah in southern Iraq. This marks the first post-Iraq War lump-sum contract for engineering, procurement, and…