Foster Wheeler AG (FWC; Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a basic engineering design and front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for two grassroots petroleum refineries in Brazil for Petróleo Brasileiro S.A., (Petrobras).…
Global chemical industry production grew by 0.3% in October, according to data from the American Chemistry Council’s (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) Global Chemical Production Regional Index (CPRI). The pace of growth is slower than earlier in the year, but on…
The Shaw Group Inc. (Baton Rouge, La.; www.shawgrp.com) it has been selected by GAIL (India) Ltd (GAIL) to provide its proprietary technology and basic engineering for a new 450,000-ton/yr ethylene plant. Shaw also will provide support during detailed engineering, procurement…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) will build a new and fully integrated polysilicon production site near the city of Cleveland, Tenn. The chemical company announced the decision today. With an annual capacity of 15,000 metric tons (m.t.), the production…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has received a contract from CPC Corp. (CPC; Taiwan) to design and license Jacobs' proprietary EuroClaus technology for a desulfurization unit as part of the Ta-Lin refinery expansion project in Kaoshiung, Taiwan. Officials…
ComberS.r.l., (Colzate, Bergamo, Italy; www.comber.it) the Italian manufacturer of NutscheFilter - Dryers, vertical Pan and horizontal Paddle drying systems, will be part of the Heinkel Group (Besigheim, Germany; www.heinkel.de) effective December 2010 and operating under the name of Comber Process Technology S.r.l. Commercial operations have been…
The U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE; Washington, D.C.; www.energy.gov) announced today that a $428-million, five-year contract has been awarded to the Babcock & Wilcox Conversion Services, LLC (B&WCS; Lynchburg, Va.; www.babcock.com), for operation of the depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) facilities…
Aveva Solutions Ltd. (Cambridge, U.K.; www.aveva.com) launched its new AVEVA IntelliLaser technology at SPAR Europe 2010 (Amsterdam; December 7–8). As an extension to the AVEVA NET information management solution, the new IntelliLaser product enables owner operators of industrial process plants…
A new version of the eChemPortal has been launched yesterday by OECD. It provides free public access to information on more than 600,000 records on chemical substances. By launching the new eChemPortal, the OECD (Paris; www.oecd.org) has reached a new…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Petronas (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; www.petronas.com) today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to undertake a joint feasibility study to produce specialty chemicals in Malaysia, a move that would extend the two parties’ existing business…