Soybean crushing
Cenex Harvest States Cooperatives (St Paul, Minnesota, USA) and its grain division Harvest States has initiated construction of a new soybean crushing plant in Fairmont, Minnesota.
Polypropylene unit in New Jersey
Phillips Petroleum Company is planning to start up a new polypropylene (PP) unit possibly by June of this year at its refinery in Linden, New Jersey, USA.
Goro nickel-cobalt project in New Caledonia
The company Goro Nickel, of the Canadian group INCO, has signed a contract with Technip-Coflexip in association with the American group Bechtel, for the engineering, project management, procurement of equipment and materials and construction of a nickel-cobalt production complex at Goro, in the south of New Caledonia.
AvestaPolarit to expand hot rolling mill
AvestaPolarit will increase the capacity of its Tornio hot rolling mill from about 1
million tonnes to 1.7 million tonnes per annum.
Egyptian LNG deal
Gaz de France will buy 3.6 million tons of Egyptian sourced liquefied natural gas a year over the next 20 years in a deal with BG, the UK based international gas group and BG’s partners from Egypt and Italy.