KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) has been awarded a contract by Tierra Del Fuego Power & Chemical Co., Ltd. to provide licensing and process design for a grassroots ammonia plant in Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina. KBR will license its conventional ammonia…
Praxair (China) Investment Co. (Shanghai; www.praxair.cn) has signed a multi-year agreement with Evergreen Solar Energy China Co. to supply bulk industrial gases for its solar wafer manufacturing facility in Wuhan, China. Evergreen Solar develops, manufactures and markets solar-power products based…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has been awarded a contract by Sinopec Wuhan Co. for the design and supply of three circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) steam generators for the Sinopec Wuhan…
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) says a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded contracts by SOCAR & TURCAS Rafineri A.S. (STRAS) for its planned grassroots refinery to be built within the Petkim Petrokimya A.S.…
Akzo Nobel N.V. (Amsteredam, the Netherlands; www.akzonobel.com) today announced the sale of its National Starch business to Corn Products International (Westchester, Ill.). The company will receive $1.3 billion in cash and the buyer will assume certain pension and employee benefit liabilities.…
Overall production in the chemical industries fell by 0.9% in May, following a 0.4% gain in April, but wider industrial production surged ahead by a greater-than-expected 1.2% in May, the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Arlington, Va.; www.americanchemistry.com) Weekly Chemistry and…
RWE Power (Cologne, Germany; www.rwe.com) and Linde-KCA-Dresden GmbH (www.linde-kca.com), a subsidiary of The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com), have signed a framework agreement on the use of technology developed by RWE Power for drying lignite. This turns Linde-KCA-Dresden into a provider…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and RTI International (Research Triangle Park, N.C.; www.rti.org), are joining forces to develop a new, exceptionally cost-effective technology to capture carbon dioxide from waste gases emitted by coal-fired power plants and other industrial sources. The…
Bayer MaterialScience (BMS; Leverkusen, Germany; www.bayermaterialscience.com) will continue in the future to network its activities in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) at the Leverkusen, Dormagen and Krefeld-Uerdingen Chemparks. This task transfers as of July 1, 2010, to the Bayer subgroup’s newly established NRW…
Pöyry Plc. (Vantaa, Finland; www.poyry.com) has been awarded engineering and project services contract by Kevitsa Mining AB, a subsidiary of First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (FQML), for its Kevitsa nickel/copper concentrator project in Northern Finland. The value of the contract is expected…