Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.com) announced that its subsidiary Tecnimont S.p.A., in joint venture with China HuanQiu Contracting & Engineering Corporation Ltd. (HQC) – 65% Tecnimont / 35% HQC – has been awarded by PRPC Polymers Sdn Bhd (PRPC…
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) officially started up its new pilot reactor for vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer (VAE) dispersions at its Nanjing site (Jiangsu province) in China today. The new facility will allow Wacker to expand its local research and…
Siemens AG (Munich, Germany; www.siemens.com) and Bentley Systems (Exton, Pa.; www.bentley.com) announced today that they have formalized a strategic alliance agreement to drive new business value by accelerating digitalization to advance infrastructure project delivery and asset performance in complementary business…
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…