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Caloric wins its first project in the U.K.  

Caloric Anlagenbau GmbH (Gräfelfing, Germany; www.caloric.com) has won its first contract in the U.K. for a small, industrial onsite carbon-monoxide-generation plant (40 Nm³/h of pure CO). The plant will be delivered to a chemical company in the UK and will…

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New Air Products Lab will help oil recyclers optimize hydrotreatment processes

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) is building a hydrogen laboratory at its corporate headquarters in Allentown, Pa., that will support the fast growing oil recycling industry. A key feature of the new laboratory is a hydrotreatment unit capable of…

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Fluor and Technip awarded RAPID Refinery Facilities Project in Malaysia  

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com), in a joint venture (JV) with Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com), was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract by PRPC Utilities and Facilities Sdn. Bhd. for the Petronas Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development…

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ThyssenKrupp wins follow-up order for cement plant in Saudi Arabia  

ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com), the ThyssenKrupp Group's plant engineering specialist, has received an order from Al Sawfa Cement Co. (Saudi Arabia) to build a complete cement production line. The order is worth around €100 million. The new…

Foster Wheeler awarded contract for ExxonMobil’s Antwerp refinery upgrade

Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) has announced that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract by ExxonMobil Petroleum & Chemical BVBA (“Esso”) for the Antwerp Northwest Europe…

BP announces contracts for Indonesia liquefaction project

BP plc (London, U.K.; www.bp.com) has announced that the following two consortia have been awarded the onshore Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) for the $12-billion Tangguh Expansion Project (Train 3): PT. Tripatra Engineers and Constructors, PT. Tripatra Engineering, PT.…

AkzoNobel exits paper chemicals market with divestment of Eka Synthomer JV

AkzoNobel N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) has announced the €5 million divestment of its 50% share in non-consolidated joint venture (JV) Eka Synthomer Oy, to Synthomer. The divestment of these shares follows a strategic review of the businesses within AkzoNobel's…

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UOP phenol technology selected by Cepsa Chemical in China  

UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.; www.uop.com), a Honeywell company, says that Cepsa Chemical (Shanghai) Co. will use UOP process technology to meet demand in China for key petrochemicals used to make plastics for the fast-growing domestic construction and automotive industries.…

CCPS names new executive director

The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) of AIChE (the American Institute of Chemical Engineers; New York; www.aiche.org) announced that Shakeel Kadri, currently director, global process safety and risk management for Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. (Allentown, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) will…

Chemtura expanding antioxidant production capacity in Italy, Canada and Taiwan

Chemtura Corp. (Philadelphia, Pa.; www.chemtura.com) has announced that three of its major production sites are now increasing capacity for its Naugalube alkylated diphenyl amine (ADPA) liquid antioxidants to prevent predicted future shortages of antioxidants in the automotive petroleum additive industry…