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Metso supplies calcining system to Russia

Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) has signed a contract for the delivery of a calcining system to a customer in Russia. The order value of approximately €30 million has been booked in Metso’s Q1 2020 orders received. Commissioning of the…

Gazprom Neft constructing new catalyst production plant

Gazprom Neft (St. Petersburg, Russia; www.gazprom-neft.com) is continuing its construction of a high-tech-catalyst production facility in Omsk, with the future plant set to produce 21,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of modern catalysts to be used in key processes involved…

Evonik announces breakthrough in fermentation-based collagen production

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) announced the development of an advanced collagen platform that is made via fermentation-based processes and devoid of animal- or human-derived materials. The recombinant technology will, for the first time, provide pharmaceutical, medical, cell culture…

KBR to study heating-system efficiency of Singapore industrial facilities

KBR (Houston; www.kbr.com) announced that it has been awarded the Heating Systems Energy Efficiency Study by the National Environment Agency (NEA) of Singapore. KBR will provide consultancy services to study the energy performance of heating systems in energy-intensive industrial facilities…

AGC to acquire Italian biotechnology company Molmed

AGC Inc. (Tokyo; www.agc.com) has decided to launch a voluntary tender offer (VTO) to acquire all ordinary shares of Molecular Medicine S.p.A. (Molmed), a company with shares listed on the Italian Stock Exchange (Milan). Molmed is a clinical-stage biotechnology company…

Toray Plastics opens resin innovation center in Virginia

Toray Plastics (America), Inc. (www.toraytpa.com) has opened the PEF Division Innovation Center at its operations in Front Royal, Virginia. The new $4 million, 5,000-square-foot Innovation Center houses a state-of-the-art, custom designed pilot line, which enables Toray to explore and qualify…

Maire Tecnimont awarded EPC contract for new urea complex in Turkey

Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy; www.mairetecnimont.com) announced that its subsidiary Tecnimont S.p.A. has signed with Gemlik Gübre Sanayii Anonim Şirteki for an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for a value of approximately €200 million related to the implementation of…

Huntsman to acquire CVC Thermoset Specialties

Huntsman Corp. (The Woodlands, Tex.; www.huntsman.com) has agreed to acquire CVC Thermoset Specialties, a North American specialty chemical manufacturer serving the industrial composites, adhesives and coatings markets.  CVC Thermoset Specialties is part of Emerald Performance Materials LLC which is majority…

Significant increase in efficiency of P&ID creation

Established in 1912, EBARA Group (Tokyo, Japan; www.ebara.co.jp) has been at the forefront of developing some of the world’s most advanced fluid technologies. In the Fluid Machinery and System division, the creation of process & instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) is one…

Black & Veatch and BHP complete major desalination project in Chile

BHP (Melbourne, Australia; www.bhp.com), the world’s largest mining company, recently marked the completion of the Escondida Water Supply Expansion (EWSE) project at its Minera Escondida mine in Chile. The expansion increases the mine's desalination capacity to the point where 100%…