WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) has been awarded an engineer, procure and construction management (EPCM) services contract for the expansion of Fortescue Metal Group’s (FMG) Anderson Point port facilities in Port Hedland Western Australia. The project will increase iron…
By way of an internationally attended groundbreaking ceremony, TransGas Development Systems, LLC, has begun construction of America’s largest coal-to-gasoline complex, the Adams Fork Energy plant in Mingo County, W.V. The ceremony was conducted today on the project site at Wharncliffe,…
Outotec Oyj (Espoo, Finland; www.outotec.com) has agreed with Tech Talk company of Dubai on the delivery of flash smelting technology for the expansion of National Iranian Copper Industries Co.'s copper smelter located in Sarcheshmeh, Iran. Outotec's scope of delivery includes…
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Pasadena, Calif.; www.jacobs.com) has been awarded an engineering and procurement supply contract by China Sun Paper for an integrated chlorine dioxide plant in Laos. Officials did not disclose the contract value. Jacobs is providing basic design…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com) has started up a new air separation unit to supply industrial gases to ThyssenKrupp’s state-of-the-art carbon- and stainless-steel processing facilities in Mobile, Alabama. The new air separation unit, with a capacity of 400 ton/d, will…
Royal DSM (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) and the French starch and starch-derivatives company Roquette Frères (Lestrem, France; www.roquette.com) will build a commercial scale plant for the production of bio-based succinic acid, the first non-fossil feedstock derived chemical building block that…
Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.;www.bv.com) has been appointed principal contractor for a program of works that will enhance and expand sludge treatment operations at Thames Water’s Basingstoke and Bracknell Sewage Treatment Works. The major upgrades will convert liquid treated…
SNC-Lavalin Inc. (Montreal, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has acquired Groupe Stavibel, a multidisciplinary consulting engineering firm based in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec. Groupe Stavibel provides engineering consulting expertise in numerous fields of activity in the buildings, infrastructure, transport, mining, and environment sectors. The firm…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) is investing 17 million euros in the expansion of its production capacities for polychloroprene solid rubber. The expansion at the Dormagen site is scheduled for completion by the end of 2012 and will increase production…
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) will build and operate a large hydrogen and synthesis gas plant in the Chongqing Chemical Park in Western China in a joint enterprise with Chongqing Chemical & Pharmaceutical Holding Company (CCPHC). The project has…