L&T Technology Services has won an EPCM contract by one of the leading plastics, chemicals and refining manufacturers for the expansion of an existing plant in Europe. The expansion work is expected to be carried out at the customer’s brownfield unit in Germany.

Ascend has plans to construct cogeneration units and expand adiponitrile capacity at its Decatur, Alabama site. The move is expected to create 150 skilled jobs during the construction phase, offer 10 high-profile manufacturing jobs and lower emissions by 60 %.

Under the MOU, the newly formed JV will establish a new propylene oxide (PO) and styrene monomer (SM) unit in China. The unit is expected to produce 300 KTA of PO and 600 KTA of SM.

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has awarded KBR with a Project Management Consultancy Services contract for four condensate greenfield refineries in Nigeria. The aim of the new projects is to lower the country's dependence on expensive imported fuels.

The chemicals company Kemira has plans to exit the Russian market and suspend its local operations in the country. Previously, in March, the company had discontinued its deliveries to Russia and Belarus owing to the Ukraine war.

Samir Brikho will succeed Alexander Landia as Chairman of the Board of Directors at Eurochem Group. Brikho has previously worked for many leading companies such as Asea, ABB Group, Alstom and Amec Foster Wheeler.

As emerging economies invest in new projects in water and electricity generation sectors and global oil and gas production increases, these directly affect the demand for valves. Moreover, there are various other factors as well that help valves industry to grow.

Befar and Uhdenora will cooperate on a new 80,000 million-tons-per-year caustic soda plant at Binzhou, Shandong Province, P.R. China. This facility will be the first in the world to be based on the NaCl ODC technology owned by Uhdenora.

Modern residue removal systems allow for a reliable, economic, and environmentally friendly transport of the huge volumes to be handled in large-scale coal fired power plants. Here in particular, tube conveyors in conjunction with shiftable conveyors and mobile spreaders offer reliable solutions.

The module programme for the Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company (Kipic) Al-Zour project in Kuwait was completed by Fluor’s JV Cooec-Fluor fabrication yard in China. On completion, the new complex is expected to be one of the largest refineries across the globe.