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Veolia to operate utilities at DuPont maufacturing site in Virginia
Veolia North America (Boston, Mass.; www.veolianorthamerica.com) announced that it has entered, through its subsidiary Veolia Energy Operating Services, LLC, into an agreement to upgrade, operate and maintain the utilities infrastructure at the DuPont Spruance manufacturing facility in Virginia, United States.…
2018 CEPCI Updates: March (prelim.) and February (final)
The preliminary value for the February 2018 CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; most recent available) increased compared to the previous month’s value. All four of the subindices (Equipment, Buildings, Construction Labor and Engineering & Supervision) moved higher for February, pushing…
Fluor wins contract for Marathon’s STAR program at Galveston Bay refinery
Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) announced that it was selected by a division of Marathon Petroleum Corp. (MPC) to execute the engineering and procurement scope for MPC’s South Texas Asset Repositioning (STAR) program at its Galveston Bay refinery in Texas…
Air Liquide and Covestro sign longterm hydrogen-supply contract in Antwerp
Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) and Covestro AG (Leverkusen, Germany; www.covestro.com) have recently signed a new longterm contract for the supply of hydrogen at Covestro’s production site in the port area of Antwerp. Air Liquide will invest 80 million euros…
Emerson to acquire Textron’s Tools and Test Equipment business
Emerson (St. Louis, Mo.; www.emerson.com) announced that it has signed an agreement to purchase the Tools and Test Equipment (Tools & Test) business of Textron for $810 million. Tools & Test is a leading manufacturer of electrical and utility tools,…
CB&I achieves modularization milestones for LACC Lake Charles project
CB&I (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.cbi.com) announced that it has achieved three significant project milestones at its Lotte Chemical (LACC) Ethane Cracker Project in Lake Charles, Louisiana. CB&I successfully set the first three of the four major modules at the project,…
Toray to establish resin production plant in India
Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan; www.toray.com) announced that it has decided to establish a production facility for nylon and Polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) resin compounds at its Indian subsidiary Toray Industries (India) Private Limited (TID). The resins are used in electrical…
Praxair begins hydrogen supply to Marathon refinery in Louisiana
Praxair Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com)announced that it has begun supplying hydrogen to Marathon Petroleum Corp.’s refinery in Garyville, Louisiana. Marathon Petroleum is one of the largest transportation fuels refiners in the U.S. and operates an integrated refining, marketing and transportation…
Wacker acquires Dutch biopharmaceuticals plant
Wacker Chemie AG (Munich, Germany; www.wacker.com) has acquired a Dutch site for manufacturing biopharmaceuticals, live microbial products and vaccines, plus the associated business, from SynCo Bio Luxembourg S.à.r.l. Both parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price. “This strategic…
KBR completes ethylene plant revamp in Korea
KBR, Inc. (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced the successful completion of the ethylene plant revamp project for Korea Petrochemical Ind. Co. (KPIC) in Ulsan, Korea. Under the terms of the contract, KBR provided its proprietary Selective Cracking Optimum Recovery (SCORE) technology license,…