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Fluor selected for Cerro Verde mine-expansion project in Peru
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced today that it was awarded a contract by Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold to provide construction management (CM) services for the expansion of the Cerro Verde mine in Peru. Fluor previously provided engineering and procurement…
KBR awarded contract for Ineos HDPE plant
KBR (Houston, Tex.; www.kbr.com) announced that it has been awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract by Ineos Olefins & Polymers USA for one of the largest grassroots high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plants to be built in the Americas. The…
BASF to build a new plant for high-performance Ultramid in China
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) is building a new Ultramid polymerization plant with a capacity of 100,000 metric tons (m.t.) per year in Shanghai, China. The new plant is planned to start up in 2015. “As part of our long-term…
Eurochem to establish JV in China
EuroChem (Moscow, Russia; www.eurochem.ru), Russia’s largest mineral fertilizer producer and a top ten agrochemical company globally, today announces plans to create a joint venture (JV) with Migao Corp., a China-based specialty potash fertilizer producer, in Yunnan, a province in southern…
Innovnano scales up nanostructured powders
Innovnano (Coimbra, Portugal; www.innovnano-materials.com), a manufacturer of high-performance ceramic powders, has invested in a high-tech, brand new facility for production of its nanostructured powders, including 3 and 4 mol % yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ). The new site is based in…
Foster Wheeler awarded contract for Dow’s Louisiana plant upgrade
Foster Wheeler AG (Zug, Switzerland; www.fwc.com) announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by The Dow Chemical Company (Midland, Michigan; www.dow.com) to provide detailed engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM)…
Georgia Pacific’s GP Harmon Recycling acquires Highlands Group plastics facility in Tennessee
Georgia Pacific’s (Atlanta, Ga.; www.gp.com) GP Harmon Recycling (www.gpharmon.com) has announced the asset acquisition of The Highlands Group, Inc.’s plastics recycling facility located in Elizabethton, Tenn. The acquisition marks GP Harmon Recycling’s official entrance into plastics recycling processing. GP…
Kaneka to expand production capacity of chlorinated polyvinyl chloride
Kaneka Corporation (Osaka, Japan; www.kaneka.com) is increasing its production capacity of chlorinated polyvinyl chloride (CPVC) resin at wholly owned subsidiary Kaneka North America LLC, located in Texas, to 50,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr), an increase of approximately 20,000 m.t./yr.…
Siemens designs sinter plant for Ukranian steel producer EMZ
Siemens Metals Technologies (Linz, Austria; www.siemens.com/metals) has received an order from the Metinvest Group to carry out detailed engineering work on a new sinter plant for PJSC "Yenakiieve Iron and Steel Works" (EMZ), a Ukrainian steel producer. The sinter plant…
Altana to acquire rheology modifier business from Rockwood
The specialty chemicals group Altana (Wesel, Germany; www.altana.com) has signed a definite agreement to acquire the global rheology business of Rockwood Holdings Inc. The unit, currently part of Rockwood’s Performance Additives segment, is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of…