Compass Minerals (Overland Park, Kan.; www.compassminerals.com) has selected Veolia Water Technologies (Moon Township, Pa.; www.veoliawaterstna.com) to provide the HPD Crystallization equipment necessary to expand production of its potassium sulfate product at its facility near Ogden, Utah, in the U.S. The…
Air Liquide’s (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) has signed a new contract with ITER-India for the design and manufacturing of 19 cryogenic lines for the ITER project. This latest contract comes after two earlier ones, signed in 2012 and in 2013, bringing the…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Te.; www.fluor.com) announced that Fluor Ltd., its U.K. operation, was selected by Cytec Industries Inc. for the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) of the expansion of its high-performance adhesives manufacturing facility in Wrexham, North Wales. Fluor…
Badlands NGLs, LLC (Denver, Colo.; www.badlandsngls.com) and Univation Technologies, LLC (Houston; www.univation.com), a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) announced that Badlands has licensed Univation Technologies’ Unipol PE Process for four polyethylene (PE) reactor lines, representing…
Air Liquide’s (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) Advanced Technologies U.S. LLC business has recently acquired PoroGen Corp., a leading manufacturer of porous polymeric membranes for use in many industries, including oil and gas, refining and petrochemicals, energy, power generation and aerospace. PoroGen…
Orion Engineered Carbons S.A. (OEC; Luxembourg ; www.orioncarbons.com) and Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) announced agreements on transactions where Orion will acquire Evonik’s 52% percent stake, as well as Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft GmbH’s (DEG) 15% stake in Qingdao…
Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.; www.bv.com) has been selected by NiQuan Energy to assess the cost, scope and schedule for completion of its Petrotrin gas-to-liquids (GTL) facility in Pointe-à-Pierre, Trinidad and Tobago. The GTL process converts natural gas to…
ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) has announced that Jens Michael Wegmann will take over as chief executive officer (CEO) and board chairman, effective on October 15, 2015. The Industrial Solutions business area consists of four units: Resource Technologies,…
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced that its joint venture team was selected by Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) as the preferred bidder for two engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) packages. Facilities in the two packages will include a variety…
Sasol Ltd. (Johannesburg, South Africa; www.sasol.co.za) has selected Emerson Process Management to help automate its $8.9-billion petrochemical complex in Lake Charles, La. The automation project is one of the largest in history awarded to Emerson. When completed sometime in 2018,…