Bechtel (Reston, Va.; www.bechtel.com) has received approval from Teck to proceed with the expansion of the Quebrada Blanca copper mine in Chile, comprising a143,000 tons-per-day copper concentrator, a high-capacity desalination plant, and a 165-kilometer water supply pipeline. The Quebrada Blanca…
In December 2018, the no. 1 AOD (argon-oxygen-decarburization) converter modernized by Primetals Technologies Ltd. (London, U.K.; www.primetals.com) was started up at the Tornio works of Outokumpu Stainless Oy (Helsinki, Finland), a stainless-steel producer. The project involved fitting the converter with…
WorleyParsons Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia; www.worleyparsons.com) has been awarded an engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction (EPC) contract for the Pipestone Processing Facility in Alberta Canada by Encana Corp. (Encana). Keyera Partnership, a subsidiary of Keyera Corp, will own the Pipestone…
Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has acquired Structured Polymers Inc., a U.S.-based technology startup for 3-D printing materials headquartered in Austin, Texas. A corresponding agreement and plan of merger was executed and the transaction has been closed recently. The…
Ecolab Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.; www.ecolab.com) announced that it has closed on its previously announced acquisition of Bioquell PLC (www.bioquell.com), a leading provider of hydrogen peroxide vapor bio-decontamination systems and services for the life sciences and healthcare industries. Headquartered in…
BASF Corp. (Florham Park, N.J.; www.basf.com/us) is investing in its operations in Mauldin, South Carolina to enable production of pearlizers and opacifiers used in cosmetic products. Start-up of the new production line is planned for the end of 2019. The…
Metso Corp. (Helsinki, Finland; www.metso.com) has won a significant order to deliver a large-scale iron-ore pellet plant and related engineering services to Tata Steel for the expansion of the Kalinganagar operation located in Odisha state in India. The order has…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) and Adani Group (Ahmedabad, India; www.adani.com) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the eve of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2019, to evaluate a major joint investment in the acrylics value chain. This…
Marathon Petroleum Corp. (MPC; Findley, Ohio; www.marathonpetroleum.com) has contracted Axens (Rueill-Malmaison, France; www.axens.net) to provide its Connect’In services for realtime process monitoring and optimization of multiple Continuous Catalytic Regenerative (CCR) Reformers and multiple Prime-G+ FCC gasoline post-treatment units across their…
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR; www.socar.az) has announced the start of production of its new carbamide plant. The plant has a production capacity of 650–660,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of carbamide products using 435 million cubic…