The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA; www.osha.gov) issued Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs in Construction to help industry employers develop proactive programs to keep their workplaces safe. The recommendations may be particularly helpful to small- and medium-sized…
Gurit Holding AG (Wattwil, Switzerland; www.gurit.com) announced that it has acquired BASF`s PET (polyethylene terephthalate) structural foam business for an undisclosed purchase price. The transaction comprises BASF`s PET operations in Italy, including its staff, operating assets and product IP in…
JGC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan; www.jgc.com) has been awarded the contract for the construction of a Methionine production facility for Sumitomo Chemical Company, Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.sumitomo-chem.co.jp). This new plant, which will be constructed alongside Sumitomo Chemical’s existing factory located in…
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) says that its Denmark-based subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Vølund A/S (B&W Vølund), has been awarded a contract for nearly $40 million to design a waste-to-energy boiler for Shenzhen Energy Environmental Engineering…
The American Chemistry Council’s (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) Global Chemical Production Regional Index (Global CPRI) shows that the fourth quarter started on a soft note, with the index for October showing no gain or loss on a three-month moving average…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract to complete a feasibility study for a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant located at the existing Borealis AG (Vienna, Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) production site in Kallo, Belgium. As part of the…
Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group (WMFTG; Cornwall, U.K.; www.wmftg.com) has acquired Aflex Hose Limited and its subsidiary Aflex Hose USA LLC (Aflex) through its parent company Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc, for £61.4 million (around $77 million). Aflex, based in Halifax, England and…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) and Grupa Azoty Zakłady Azotowe Kędzierzyn S.A., part of Grupa Azoty (Tarnów, Poland), the second largest producer of mineral fertilizers in the European Union, have signed a long-term contract for the delivery of oxygen…
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI; Tokyo, Japan; www.mhi-global.com) has received an order for supply of systems to support a large-scale polyethylene production train for ExxonMobil's Beaumont Polyethylene plant. The new production train is slated to be completed in 2019, and…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; www.epa.gov) has finalized a rule adding a hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) category to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) list of reportable chemicals. This action will expand the scope of chemicals subject to TRI reporting and provide…