Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the Halliburton Specialty Chemicals Manufacturing Reaction Plant located in the PlasChem Park, Jubail, Saudi Arabia. Fluor booked the undisclosed contract value in the fourth quarter…
Evonik Industries (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) intends to start up an additional production line for hydrogen peroxide at its site in Antwerp by 2020 and has therefore decided to launch the necessary basic planning. The new production line would increase Evonik’s…
W.R. Grace & Co. (Columbia, Md.; www.grace.com) has begun construction of a new colloidal silica plant at its European flagship manufacturing and R&D center in Worms, Germany. This investment will support growing demand and increasing technical requirements of customers. It…
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC; www.adnoc.ae) awarded a Pre-Front End Engineering and Designing (Pre-FEED) contract to the Wood Group (Aberdeen, Scotland; www.woodplc.com), a global leader in engineering, project and technical services, for the new refinery in Ruwais, which is…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and The Linde Group’s Engineering Division (Pullach, Germany; www.linde-engineering.com) have agreed on a collaboration to serve natural gas processing applications using BASF’s adsorbent technology and Linde’s adsorption & membrane technology. This collaboration brings together two…
Invista (Wichita, Kan.; www.invista.com) says engineering for a 400,000-ton adiponitrile (ADN) plant in Shanghai, China is underway. The company's estimated investment will be in excess of $1 billion (7 billion RMB). With support of the local authorities, we expect construction…
One of the world’s largest copper reserves will soon be accessed with the help of high-capacity overland conveyors from thyssenkrupp AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp.com). The Industrial Solutions business area (www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) recently won a contract to supply a material handling system…
BASF Venture Capital GmbH (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf-vc.com) is investing $2 million into Alchemist Accelerator’s (San Francisco, Calif.; www.alchemistaccelerator.com) fund, allocating at least half towards investments in -D printing, agtech, material informatics, nutrition, and technology game-changers. This investment supports BASF’s strategy…
Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals; Amsterdam; www.nouryon.com) has licensed its carbon disulfide (CS2) manufacturing technology to a leading viscose fibers manufacturer in Indonesia, enabling the manufacturer to raise output of its plant on the island of Sumatra. As part of…
DowDuPont’s (Wilmington, Del.; www.dow-dupont.com) Specialty Products division announced it will divest its DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS; www.sustainablesolutions.dupont.com) business to create a new, independent global operations management consulting firm. The new firm will be led and operated by existing DSS management…