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Black & Veatch and Kiewit complete first stage of Jordan Cove LNG facility
Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.; www.bv.com) and Kiewit (Omaha, Neb.; www.kiewit.com) have completed the front-end engineering and design (FEED) work and pre-construction planning activities for the Jordan Cove Liquefaction Project. Located in Coos Bay, Ore., the facility will utilize Black…
Metso to supply biomass-fired heating plant in Finland
Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) will supply a biomass-fired heating plant for district heating production to Elenia Lämpö in Turenki, Finland. The heating plant is scheduled to go on-stream in late 2014. The value of the order will not be…
Chevron Phillips receives key permits for large Gulf Coast project
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP (The Woodlands, Tex; www.cpchem.com) announced it received air permits from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for its planned ethane cracker and polyethylene units. Additionally, Chevron Phillips Chemical received a greenhouse gas permit from Environmental…
Technip awarded contract by NCRA for a H2 plant in Kansas
Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com), in consortium with its construction partner Performance Contractors Inc., was awarded a contract by the National Cooperative Refinery Assn. (NCRA). This contract covers supply of Technip’s proprietary reforming technology, as well as engineering, procurement, installation and…
Johnson Matthey expands ligand manufacturing to commercial scale
Johnson Matthey (London; www.matthey.com) has announced that their global Catalysis and Chiral Technologies technology business unit, JMCCT, which provides services in heterogeneous, homogeneous, chiral and biocatalytic technologies for customers in the pharmaceutical, fine chemical and agrochemical industries, is expanding its…
Siemens delivers wet-air-oxidation system to treat wastewater in Indonesia
Siemens Energy (www.siemens.com) has received a contract from Indonesia to deliver a Zimpro wet-air-oxidation system. The technology will be part of the new Gundih gas processing plant where it will treat wastewater contaminated during the gas production process. The contract…
GranBio and Rhodia sign partnership deal in renewable chemicals
GranBio (São Paulo; www.granbio.com.br), a Brazilian biotechnology company, and Rhodia, a Solvay Group (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) company, have signed an agreement to create a partnership to produce bio n-butanol. Bio n-butanol is made from sugar cane straw and bagasse, the…
Invista and SilicoLife to collaborate on bio-derived raw materials
Invista (Wichita, Kan.; www.invista.com) and Portuguese computational biology company SilicoLife have announced collaboration for the development of new technologies to enable bio-derived processes for the production of industrial chemicals. The two companies are collaborating in order to further co-develop their…
Clariant and Tasnee establish masterbatches JV in Saudi Arabia
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com) and Tasnee (www.tasnee.com), one of the largest industrial conglomerates in Saudi Arabia, today announced the signing of an agreement to establish a masterbatches joint venture (JV) in Saudi Arabia. Within the framework of the agreement, through…
Edwards to acquire Gamma Vacuum
Edwards Group Ltd. (Crawley, U.K.; www.edwardsvacuum.com), a leading manufacturer of sophisticated vacuum products and abatement systems and a global provider of related value-added services, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the business and certain assets of Gamma Vacuum,…