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Outotec acquires Vertical Pressure Filter technology
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has acquired the Vertical Pressure Filter (VPF) technology and its intellectual property rights from Australian Process Technology Pty Ltd (North Fremantle, Australia), a filters supplier for the alumina refining industry. The parties have agreed not…
Bechtel and SolFocus deliver renewable power for California agribusiness
Bechtel (Frederick, Md.; www.bechtel.com), SolFocus, Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.; www.solfocus.com) and developer Sol Orchard announced today that a 1-MW high concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) power plant was completed for Nichols Farms, a pistachio farm in Hanford, Calif. The solar plant, which…
Evonik starts up new isobutene plant in Antwerp
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has started up a new facility to produce high-purity isobutene at its site in Antwerp (Belgium). The new plant, which involved investment of tens of millions euros, can produce up to 110,000 metric tons…
Sener: Five new thermosolar projects in Spain
Sener Ingeniería y Sistemas, S.A. (Sener; Madrid, Spain;www.sener.es) has clinched several contracts for the design and supply of solar fields in Spain: the Aste 1A and Aste 1B, Termosolar Soluz Guzmán, Consol-Orellana and La Africana plants. With these five new…
Foster Wheeler wins FEED contract from Huntsman
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that its Global Engineering and Construction Group has received a contract from Huntsman (Europe) BVBA to undertake the front-end engineering design (FEED) for the expansion of Huntsman's Isocyanates Facility at Caojing, in…
B&W awarded renewable energy contract in Sweden
The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) announced today that its Denmark-based subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Vølund A/S (B&W Vølund), has been awarded a contract worth more than $30 million to design and supply a boiler, combustion system,…
Technip: Technology provider and contractor for the Ethylene XXI project in Mexico
Braskem-Idesa, the joint venture (JV) between the Brazilian Braskem and Mexican Group Idesa has taken another important step for the development of its Ethylene XXI project in Mexico. The JV has chosen Technip (Paris; www.technip.com) as technology provider for the…
Evonik builds surfactants plant in China; and acquires silicone-chemistry group
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) is building an integrated production plant for organic specialty surfactants at its site in Shanghai, China. With an investment in the upper double-digit million euro range, the production network is scheduled to begin operation…
Uhde is expanding HKM’s coke oven plant
In late 2010 Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann GmbH (HKM; Duisburg-Huckingen www.hkm.de) awarded Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) a contract to build a second coke oven battery at its Duisburg Huckingen site as well as to expand the gas treatment unit and…
Toyo wins large-scale fertilizer-plant order in Indonesia
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Toyo; Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) and PT Inti Karya Persada Teknik have jointly received a notice of bidding award for a fertilizer project from the state-owned Indonesian fertilizer company, PT Pupuk Kalimantan Timur (Kaltim). The plant will be…