Construction services provider, Jacobs Engineering has been chosen by the Korean Lotte Group’s United Kingdom subsidiary, Lotte Chemical UK to provide construction management services for Lotte’s new polyethylene terephthalate (PET) facility to be constructed at Redcar in Cleveland at the Wilton International Site. Though the financial value of the contract has not been divulged, representative officials confirmed the scheduled contract duration to be 18 months.
A basic engineering package (BEP) contract for the joint petrochemical venture between Shell Global Solutions and Qatar Petroleum to develop a global scale mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) complex at Ras Laffan in Qatar has been awarded to the subsidiary of the Global Engineering and Construction Group of Switzerland based Foster Wheeler. While the financial value of the contract has not been revealed, the earnings from the contract will be booked in Foster Wheeler’s third quarter statement for 2012.
Manufacturer ANH Refractories is launching a revamped range of products for the cement manufacturing sector following a period of intensive testing and research. The American owned company says it now believes it offers the most comprehensive range of high quality refractories for cement kilns in the world.
BASF has announced the opening of its first manufacturing facility for dispersions at Umbogintwini Industrial Complex located in Durban, South Africa.
The plant construction business arm of ThyssenKrupp was awarded a contract to carry out the front end engineering and design (FEED) of a polypropylene plant in Russia in May 2012.
Clark Pacific, a provider of structural and architectural precast concrete solutions, has reported the completion of the California properties acquisition from Hanson Structural Precast, a unit of Hanson Building Products North America, a company of the HeidelbergCement Group and Lehigh Hanson.
Garage Floor Coating of Tucson has announced a new high-performance permanent sealer and concrete staining system dubbed Eco-CorFlex Clear Hydro-Poly Moisture Mitigation Industrial Coating.
Alcoa Reynobond composite materials were highlighted in three of the award-winning projects in the 2012 Metal Architecture magazine Metal Building Design Awards, which marks a stunning success of metal composite materials designed to result in exquisite architectural designs.
The Network Group for Composites in Construction (NGCC) has declared that its membership has been opened to firms located all over the world. NGCC was set up to enable the use of fibre reinforced polymers (FRPs) in building applications.
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid UPM researchers have obtained a patent for gypsum boards that can store thermal energy, which will bring down up to 40% of a building’s energy consumption. The boards along with strategies like natural airing and sunlight can bring down energy consumption, especially in Spain where nearly 80% of the energy is imported.
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