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Morrison Knudsen awarded $1.2-billion construction and engineering contract

The Indonesian Infrastructure Partnership has awarded Morrison Knudsen (Los Angeles, Calif.; www.morrison-knudsen.com a $1.2 billion contract in Kalimantan, Indonesia. The contract is for the engineering and construction of a new harbor and load out facilities for the country's expanding pulp-and-paper…

Air Liquide to supply hydrogen purification unit for Louisiana methanol plant

Air Liquide Engineering and Construction (www.engineering-airliquide.com) will supply a hydrogen purification PSA (Pressure Swing Adsorption) unit to one of the largest methanol production facilities to be built by Yuhuang Chemical Inc (YCI) in St. James Parish, La., as per recently signed agreement.…

Fluor wins two contracts from Marathon for Texas refineries

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced that it was selected by a division of Marathon Petroleum Corp. (Marathon) to execute the engineering and procurement scope for a major reconfiguration at Marathon’s Galveston Bay and Texas City, Texas refineries. Fluor will…

Mitsui Chemicals starts up electrolyte solution production facility

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan; www.mitsuichem.com) has announced the startup of its electrolyte solution production facilities, which have been built at Nagoya Works to accommodate growing domestic demand for lithium-ion battery-use electrolyte solution. The production capacity for the new plant…

Ashland to acquire composites plant in France

Ashland Global Holdings Inc. (Covington, Ky.; www.ashland.com) announced that it has made a binding offer to acquire a composites resin manufacturing facility in Etain, France, from Reichhold Holdings International B.V. The transaction, which is subject to customary regulatory approvals, is…

BASF to sell Bleaching Clay and Mineral Adsorbents businesses

BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) announced that it has signed an agreement to sell its Bleaching Clay and Mineral Adsorbents businesses to EP Minerals LLC, a worldwide leader in industrial minerals. Financial details of the divestiture are not being disclosed.…

PPG acquires remaining interest in IVC joint venture in Asia

PPG Industries, Inc. (Pittsburgh, Pa.; www.ppg.com) has purchased the remaining 50% ownership interest in its Asian joint venture (JV) comprising IVC (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd and IVC-OPS (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. from its joint-venture partner, Omni-Plus System Pte. Ltd. Financial terms were…

Air Products starts up gases plant in Guangdong province

Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) announced that it has started up another new oxygen and nitrogen plant in the Guangdong province in South China. The plant further enhances the company’s production capacity and supply position in this important industrial…

IDEC has acquired HMI manufacturer APEM

IDEC Corp. (Osaka, Japan; www.idec.com), a leading manufacturer of industrial automation and control devices, announces the recent acquisition of APEM (www.apem.com). Together, IDEC and APEM are now one of the world’s largest manufacturers of human machine interface (HMI) components, panels…

Air Liquide to build nitrogen plant at plastics complex in Oman

Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) and Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic), Oman’s national refining company, recently signed a longterm agreement for the supply of nitrogen to the Liwa Plastics Industries Complex (LPIC), a new plastics production complex that…