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Air Liquide (Paris; www.airliquide.com) has signed another major long-term contract in the steel industry in China. It will invest about €40 million in Yichun, Heilongjiang Province (northeastern China), 350 km north of Harbin, Heilongjiang’s capital city, to supply Xilin Steel…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has been awarded a contract by Tongling Non-Ferrous Metals Group for the design and delivery of a new copper smelter to be built in Jinchang in Anhui province, China. The contract value is approximately €15 million.…
The Chemical Business Association (CBA; Crewe, U.K.; www.chemical.org.uk) and the U.K. Warehouse Association (UKWA; London; www.ukwa.org.uk) have today, 16th March 2010, launched guidance for their respective member companies designed to assist in achieving higher levels of major hazard management. Major…
HRST, Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.; www.hrstinc.com) has added to their capabilities in performance analysis and modeling by integrating ANSYS software into the firm’s extensive knowledge of HRSG technologies. “The energy environment has changed in recent years,” Amy Sieben, HRST’s Analysis…
Foster Wheeler AG (FWC; Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCm) contract by Sasol for its Fischer-Tropsch Wax Expansion Project to be located at Sasolburg,…
The inventories-to-sales ratio for chemical products fell to a record low in January, suggesting increased production could follow, according to data compiled and analyzed by the American Chemistry Council (ACC). Sales of chemical products at the wholesale level rose 3.6% in…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) and Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc., an operating unit of The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (Lynchburg, Va.; www.babcock.com) have formed a strategic alliance with Fluor’s Power Group to market and sell carbon-dioxide-capture systems…
U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced today that a project with NRG Energy has been selected to receive up to $154 million, including funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Located in Thompsons, Tex., the post-combustion capture and…
Caloric Anlagenbau GmbH (Gräfelfing, Germany; www.caloric.com) has won the contract for a hydrogen expansion project in Malaysia. After successful operation of the first plant delivered by Caloric and started up in 2006 the customer chose again Caloric’s high efficient HC…