Black & Veatch (www.bv.com), in a joint venture (JV) with Civmec (BVCJV), will upgrade and expand Western Australia’s largest wastewater treatment plant. The EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) alliance contract with the Water Corporation will see Black & Veatch return…
SNC-Lavalin (Montreal; Canada; www.snclavalin.com) has been awarded a contract by Norilsk Nickel to implement a Sulfur Recovery Project at the Nadezhda Smelter, located at the company’s Polar Division in the Krasnoyarsk Region, Russia. This project is one of the…
Our most recent post addressed the benefits of proportional-only vacuum process control. Though this approach is well suited to many processes, in some cases more accurate (or precise) control of the pressure level is necessary. Under such circumstances, employing PI…
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) has been awarded by the State Oil Co. of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR; www.socar.az) a contract for Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) services for the SOCAR Azerikimya plant, located in the city of Sumgait, Azerbaijan. The…
Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo; www.yokogawa.com) announces that it has completed the acquisition of Soteica Visual Mesa (SVM), a leading energy-management technology provider, further delivering on a number of key objectives of Yokogawa's Transformation 2017 mid-term business plan. This announcement marks…
Within the next five years, BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany ; www.basf.com) plans to invest globally more than €200 million in its plastic additives business, approximately half of which in Asia, focusing on capacity expansions and operational excellence. Plastic additives improve…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has appointed Dr. Samir J. Serhan executive vice president, leading the company’s Technology, Engineering and Manufacturing functions, excluding HyCO (hydrogen and carbon monoxide). He also will have profit and loss responsibility for the Liquefied…
The Dresser-Rand business (www.dresser-rand.com), a part of the Siemens Power and Gas Division (www.siemens.com), received an order from Air Liquide Global E&C Solutions Hangzhou Co. for an innovative compressor train to be used in an air separation plant in China.…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) is increasing its production capacities for HDK pyrogenic silica. To this end, Wacker is expanding a hydrophobic silica specialties plant at its site in Burghausen, Germany. The plant’s capacity will rise by 40% as…
We are officially settled into our new headquarters building located at 2009 Renaissance Boulevard, King of Prussia, PA. We briefly touched on the move in our end of year blog posted Dec. 30th and are excited to report…