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Jacobs relocates global headquarters to Dallas

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (Dallas, Tex.; www.jacobs.com) announced today it has moved its headquarters from Pasadena, California to Dallas, expanding its current footprint in downtown Dallas’ Harwood Center. Pasadena served as Jacobs’ headquarters since it was founded by Joseph J.…

B&W consortium awarded environmental equipment contract for carbon black facilities

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:BW) announced today that its subsidiary, The Babcock & Wilcox Co. (B&W; Charlotte, N.C.; www.babcock.com) and its consortium partner, Saulsbury Industries, Inc., have been awarded a contract for more than $90 million to engineer, procure…

ICA Fluor awarded gold and silver project in Mexico

Fluor Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.fluor.com) says that ICA Fluor, its industrial engineering and construction joint venture with Empresas ICA, S.A.B. de C.V. (www.ir.ica.mx), was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management contract by Minas de La Alta Pimeria S.A. de…

Showa Denko to acquire graphite electrode business from SGL

Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; Tokyo, Japan; www.sdk.co.jp) agreed with SGL Carbon SE, a carbon and graphite product manufacturer headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, that SDK will acquire SGL GE Holding GmbH, which engages in the graphite electrode business, from SGL Carbon…

Solvay to build polyamide compounding plant in Mexico

Solvay SA (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) is building a Technyl polyamide compounding unit in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, with initial annual capacity of 10,000 metric tons (m.t.). This new facility is expected to become operational in the third quarter of 2017…

Sumitomo to merge its three Singapore-based subsidiaries

Sumitomo   Chemical   has   decided   to   merge   its   three   Singapore-based subsidiaries:   Sumitomo Chemical Asia Pte Ltd., which engages in the manufacturing and sales of petrochemical products; Sumitomo Chemical Singapore Pte Ltd., which engages in the manufacturing and sales of methyl methacrylate…

U.S. specialty chemicals sees 3rd consecutive monthly gain, ACC says

The Specialty Chemicals Market Volume Index, a tool created by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), showed that U.S. specialty chemicals market volumes rose 0.3 percent in September. This follows a revised 0.1 percent gain in August and…

Technip awarded furnace contract for ethylene plant in Russia

Technip (Paris, France; www.technip.com) was awarded by Public Joint Stock Company (PJSC) Kazanorgsintez a contract to provide engineering and procurement of three proprietary SMK grassroots furnaces at Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. The furnaces will be part of the ethylene…

Celanese to acquire Italy-based thermoplastic compounder

Celanese Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.celanese.com) announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Forli, Italy based SO.F.TER. Group, one of the world’s largest independent thermoplastic compounders. Celanese will acquire SO.F.TER. Group’s comprehensive product portfolio of engineering thermoplastics (ETPs),…

Air Liquide to construct hydrogen production unit at Axion Energy site in Argentina

Air Liquide (Paris, France; www.airliquide.com) announces a new investment for Axion Energy Argentina, a subsidiary of Bridas Corporation and a leading refiner in Argentina, to expand its longterm supply of hydrogen. Air Liquide will invest around €55 million in a second hydrogen…