Tag: chemicals

Foster wins UK chemical contract

Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd has been awarded a five-year Long Term Agreement (LTA) for ExxonMobil project work in Europe including projects at ExxonMobil’s integrated refinery and chemical plant, Fawley (Southampton, UK).

Hastelloy pump

Goulds Pumps, one of the fluid businesses of ITT Industries, has developed a new ANSI magnetic drive process pump.

Super duplex pumps

Weir Pumps has won a multi-million dollar contract to replace existing pumps at the Cantarell nitrogen generation complex located in Ciduad del Carmen, Campeche, Mexico.

Tantalum is back

Tantalum, used in plant and equipment construction, is fully available again – and will be exhibited by COMETEC GmbH at ACHEMA 2003 (19–24 May 2003).

Australian ammonia plant (2/4)

Burrup Fertilizers Pty Ltd has awarded a USD 300 million contract to Montreal-based SNC-Lavalin Inc.'s Australian subsidiary SNC-Lavalin (SA) Inc.

Sandvik opens plant in Shanghai

Sandvik has opened a new plant in Shanghai, China, for the manufacture of processing systems and press plates.

Acetic acid plant for China

German chemicals company Celanese AG will build a 600,000 tonne-per-year acetic acid plant in Nanjing, eastern China.

Fortune favours BASF

BASF (Germany) has been ranked the world’s most admired chemical company by the US business publication Fortune.

Stainless solution to Lockout/Tagout

Reece Safety has introduced a stainless steel lockout hasp, the MPL6.

Acetic acid plant expansion project

Yangtze River Acetyls Company Ltd (Yaraco) has awarded Aker Kvaerner the front-end engineering design (FEED) phase of a project to expand an acetic acid facility at Chongqing, China.