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Jacobs awarded contract by Aurubis Bulgaria  

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) says its Chemetics unit in Pickering, Ontario, Canada was awarded a design and fabrication contract by Aurubis Bulgaria AD for two proprietary designed sulfuric acid coolers to be installed in its acid plant…

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Jacobs receives contract from Honeywell for Baton Rouge manufacturing plant  

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has been awarded a contract from Honeywell to provide engineering services for the expansion of its Baton Rouge, La. manufacturing facility. The expansion enables the Baton Rouge facility, one of the leading refrigerants…

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Evonik to build a new methionine production complex in Singapore  

With the largest of its chemical investments to date, Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) plans to strengthen its core business with essential amino acids for animal nutrition. The Group will invest roughly one-half billion Euros in Singapore for the…

U.S. industrial production slips in November, ACC report says

Citing U.S. Federal Reserve data, the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) said U.S. industrial production slipped by 0.2% in November following a 0.7% gain in October.   “The largest declines were in motor vehicles and parts, wood products,…

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Air Products: Largest single onsite ASU order ever  

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has signed a long-term contract with Shaanxi Future Energy Chemical Co., and will build, own and operate the largest onsite air separation unit (ASU) order ever awarded to an industrial gas company. The facility,…

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World’s largest onsite high-purity ammonia plant comes onstream in China  

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) says it has brought a large-scale, onsite ammonia plant onstream in China’s Anhui Province to supply ultra-high-purity NH3 to Anhui Sanan OptoElectronics Co., a subsidiary of Sanan OptoElectronics (Sanan). The plant, located at Sanan’s…

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Technip awarded a GTL contract in Uzbekistan  

Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by Uzbekistan GTL LLC an extension of the existing reimbursable services contract, for the front-end engineering design of a gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant, located 40 km south of Qarshi in Uzbekistan. This plant will be…

Koch Membrane Systems to install wastewater system in China

Koch Membrane Systems, Inc. (KMS; Wilmington, Mass.; www.kochmembrane.com) has been selected to supply membranes for a large-scale wastewater recycling system for Yingkou Medium Plate Co., in Yingkou City, Liaoning Province, China. The project will recycle the plant’s wastewater to meet…

Air Liquide plans new plant in North Dakota

Air Liquide Industrial U.S. LP (Houston, Tex.; www.us.airliquide.com) has announced that it will build a new air separation unit (ASU) to supply nitrogen to industrial users, particularly those in the oil and gas sector, in northwest North Dakota. The new…

Global chemical production volume up 3.5% in 2011, ACC estimates

Chemistry output globally will increase 3.5% in 2011, as measured by volume, according to the Year-end 2011 Situation and Outlook report from the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com). Released today, the report summarizes the economic trends experienced in…