SunPine AB (www.sunpine.se) has awarded Pöyry Sweden AB (www.poyry.com) with the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services assignment for SunPine biorefinery expansion project in Piteå, Sweden. The assignment includes all engineering disciplines, project management services, procurement and construction management…
PTT Global Chemical PLC (PTTGC; Bangkok, Thailand; www.pttgcgroup.com) and TOC Glycol Co., Ltd. (TOCGC), a subsidiary of PTTGC, announced plans to sign joint venture (JV) agreements with Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (MCI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mitsuichem.com) to cooperate in managing Siam Mitsui…
Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo, Japan; www.asahi-kasei.co.jp) and its subsidiary Asahi Kasei Engineering Corp. have received an order from Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corp. (www.toshiba-energy.com) for an alkaline-water-electrolysis system of the world-leading scale of 10 MW in a single unit…
Toyo Engineering Corp. (Chiba, Japan; www.toyo-eng.co.jp) was awarded a lump-sum turnkey engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract from Maruzen Petrochemical Co., Ltd. for the expansion of naphtha cracking furnaces to increase ethylene production at its Chiba Plant. Toyo has participated…
Saudi Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; www.saudiaramco.com), Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com), and ACWA Power (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; www.acwapower.com) have signed a Term Sheet to form an over $8-billion Gasification/Power joint venture (JV) located at Jazan Economic City (JEC) in…
Americhem, Inc. (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; www.americhem.com) is expanding operations at its Suzhou, China, plant with a new, state-of-the-art extrusion line for soft polymer compounding. This is the second expansion in three years for the facility located in Suzhou Industrial Park,…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) has received the full notice to proceed for the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) of Anglo American’s Quellaveco copper project in the Moquegua region in the south of Peru. Fluor will book the undisclosed…
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced that it has been awarded a license and engineering and a proprietary equipment supply contract by China Pingmei Shenma Group (PMSM) to build two new polycarbonate plants in Kaifeng and Pingdingshan in the Henan Province…
MOL Group (Budapest, Hungary: www.mol.hu and APK AG (www.apk.ag) signed a strategic cooperation agreement yesterday in Merseburg, Germany. As a first step in the cooperation MOL will support the completion of APK’s Merseburg plant. The plant will serve as a…
pH is a critical parameter in many aspects of production: from setting the conditions for a reaction to happen, to the management of the reaction’s process quality, and from sustaining process equipment integrity, to avoiding environmental pollution and health…