Royal DSM N.V. (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding between its U.S.-based Business Unit DSM Functional Materials and Empresa Brasileira de Biotecnologia S.A. (Ebrabiotech; Araraquara, Brazil) for the launch of a new line of DSM-branded bio-based…
WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) has been awarded the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contract for the delivery of the Tsagaan Suvarga copper-molybdenum concentrator project for the Mongolyn Alt (MAK) Corp. MAK is the largest privately owned company…
Samsung Engineering (Seoul, Korea; www.samsungengineering.co.kr) officially signed a contract, worth approximately $1 billion, with LUKOIL Mid-East Ltd. for the project management, engineering, procurement, supply, transportation, construction, pre-commissioning of facilities comprising the Oil Gathering System, Central Processing Facilities and Water Supply…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has acquired advanced adsorption technology assets for its Generated Gases product lines from Xebec Adsorption, Inc. (Blainville, Quebec, Canada) In this acquisition, Air Products purchased the technology, intellectual property and know-how related to structured…
Lucite International, Inc. Memphis, Tenn.; www.luciteinternational.com) says that it is progressing with its investment to establish 150,000-ton/yr production of methyl methacrylate (MMA) in 2012 at its Beaumont, Tex., facility. The company will continue to produce MMA at its Memphis, Tenn.,…
Intergraph Corp. (Huntsville, Ala.; www.intergraph.com) today released SmartPlant FreeView, a free .VUE viewer that allows users to display and navigate Intergraph 3D models and view associated plant properties. SmartPlant FreeView will open any Intergraph SmartPlant 3D and SmartMarine 3D projects…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from Teck Metals Ltd. to design and supply a new sulfuric acid plant for its Trail operation located in British Columbia, Canada. Officials estimate the contract value to be…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.om) broke ground to mark the official start of the construction for the upper two-digit-million-euro investment in Shanghai, China on March 20, 2012. The ceremony was attended by more than 200 guests including government officials,…
Messer (Bad Soden/Frankfurt, Germany; www.messergroup.com) the largest privately run industrial gases specialist, has started up a plant for the production of the noble gases krypton and xenon. A sophisticated process extracts the rare gases from the air, which are mainly…
Siemens Industry Automation Division (Nuremberg, Germany; www.siemens.com/water) is providing another Zimpro wet air oxidation (WAO) system to treat wastewater at Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical Co.’s facility, near the Yangzi River in Jiangsu Province, China. The most recent of seven Zimpro WAO…