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Outotec receives additional order from the Russian Petropavlovsk Group
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 urea technology licensed to Hengang Huahe Coal Chemical Industry
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 acquires W.T. Armatur
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…
M&G Group selects Texas for new PET and PTA plants
The M&G Group (Tortona, Italy; www.gruppomg.com), has selected Corpus Christi, Tex., as the location for construction of its previously announced 1-million metric tons (m.t.) per year polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and accompanying 1.2-million m.t./yr purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plants. For more…
GEA acquires powder specialist Nu-Con
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…
Nedstack to transport the world’s largest H2-fuel-cell power plant to Solvay’s Cl2 plant near Antwerp
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,…
Axens-Viscolube Revivoil technology selected for NexLube’s oil re-refining plant
NexLube Tampa LLC plans to begin construction of a used oil re-refinery and blending plant in Tampa, Florida using Axens’ (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) and Viscolube S.p.A.’s (Pieve Fissiraga, Italy;www.viscolube.it) Revivoil technology. The facility is expected to process 24 million gallons…
Praxair to supply hydrogen to Hemlock Semiconductor
Praxair, Inc. (Danburz, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has signed a multi-year contract with Hemlock Semiconductor, L.L.C. to supply high-purity hydrogen to Hemlock Semiconductor, L.L.C.’s new $1.2-billion polysilicon manufacturing facility under construction in Clarksville, Tenn. Praxair will build and operate an on-site hydrogen…
Foster Wheeler: Contract for a delayed coker heater in Argentina
A subsidiary of Foster Wheeler AG’s (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by YPF S.A. for the delayed coker heater for the new delayed coking unit at YPF's Complejo Industrial La Plata in…
Shell and Paques: New JV to push bio-desulphurization technology for oil & gas
Shell Global Solutions (Amsterdam; www.shell.com/globalsolutions) and Paques Holding B.V. (Balk, both the Netherlands; www.paques.nl) have agreed upon the formation of a 50-50 joint venture, Paqell B.V. (www.paqell.com), to focus their efforts on the marketing of biological desulphurization in the oil…