Fluor Corporation (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) was awarded a contract by Minera Lumina Copper Chile S.A. (Santiago) deliver engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for the company's new Caserones copper mine project in central Chile. Minera Lumina Copper Chile is…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) today (July 1, 2010) announced the merger of its Swiss group companies BASF Orgamol Pharma Solutions SA, Evionnaz, and BASF Fine Chemicals Switzerland SA, Evionnaz, to a single organization. The company arising from the merger…
Following the successful completion and commissioning of a coke oven plant (phase 1) for Dragon Steel Corp. of Taiwan, a member of China Steel Corp. (CSC), Uhde GmbH (Dortmund, Germany; www.uhde.eu) has again been awarded a plant contract to build…
The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Mich.; www.dow.com) and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan; www.mitsui.co.jp/en) announced today that the two companies have signed a definitive agreement to form a 50:50 manufacturing joint venture (JV) to construct, own and operate a…
IFP (Rueil-Malmaison, France; www.ifp.fr) and Dynamotive Energy Systems Corp. (Vancouver, Canada; www.dynamotive.com) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate in the field of pyrolysis oil upgrading with the aim to produce second-generation Biofuels. Pyrolysis oils present several challenges to overcome…
Siemens Water Technologies Corp. (Warrendale, Pa.; www.water.siemens.com) and Aramco Overseas Company, B.V., a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; www.saudiaramco.com), have signed an exclusive patent and technology license agreement for the commercialization of the EcoRight membrane bioreactor (MBR), a new…
Vale (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; www.vale.com) has awarded a significant cost reimbursable contract to a consortium of WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) and SNC-Lavalin (Montreal, Canada; www.snclavalin.com) for implementation of the S11D project in Brazil. Vale’s multi-billion-dollar S11D project is…
Lanxess AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.lanxess.com) will expand the production capacity of its butyl rubber plant in Zwijndrecht, Belgium, by 10% to meet growing global demand for regular butyl and halobutyl synthetic rubber. The company will invest €20 million to increase capacity…
PAS (Houston; www.pas.com), a leading supplier of software products and consulting services to the processing industries worldwide, announces the release of Integrity Recon software, which improves the reliability of automation systems composed of Microsoft-based computing platforms. These platforms reside on…
Davy Process Technology (DPT; London; www.davyprotech.com), part of Johnson Matthey Plc, is pleased to announce that it has entered into contracts with Xinwen Mining Group Co. for a plant to produce Substitute Natural Gas (SNG) from coal. The scope of…