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Fuller signs clinker deal
November
Pump Industry Analyst
American Water Works, which is the largest publicly-traded water company in the USA, to focus on a growing segment of the water and wastewater marketplace.
ADB LOAN FOR VIETNAM Urban infrastructure in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam will be upgraded with the help of a concessional US$70 million loan, approved by the Asian
Project is aimed at reducing environmental health hazards, improving living conditions economic sustaining and improved through growth infrastructure. Drainage and sewerage systems will be upgraded to prevent flooding in three of the city’s most densely populated districts and solid waste management will be improved. In addition, industrial pollution control and air quality monitoring will be improved. The Department of Transport and Public Works and the Department of Science, Technology and Environment will be the executing agencies for the project, due to be completed in December 2005.
SUEZ LYONNAISE EXPANDS IN CZECH REPUBLIC Strengthening its position in the Czech Republic, Lyonnaise des Eaux, the water management division of Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux, has extended a contract in Brno and signed a new deal in Horny Slovak for the provision of water and wastewater management services. Extended for a 25-year period, the existing contract in Brno provides for the water and wastewater management , ;;:;;I~:; the 420 000 city
The main objective for the future is to rehabilitate the existing wastewater treatment plant to meet the European Union environment regulation standards. The new contract signed in Horny Slovak provides for the water and wastewater management services for the city’s 9000 inhabitants. It includes the operation and management of the existing network and the construction of a water network extension.
BASF BUILDS MEXICAN PAPER COLOURANTS PLANT At its production site in Altamira, Mexico, BASF is beginning the construction of a new paper colourants production plant involving an investment of approximately US$20 million. The plant is scheduled to come on stream at the end of 2000 and will supply the NAFTA region in North America. The European market will still be supplied with paper colourants produced at BASF’s Ludwigshafen site in Germany.
JACOBS WINS STOCKHAUSEN PROJECT Jacobs Engineering Group Inc has received an engineering, procurement, and construction contract for a major expansion of Stockhausen Inc’s chemical facility in Greensboro, North Carolina. The US$35 million project involves the addition of a new process building and utility additions, as well as upgrades to the existing facility. The expanded facility should begin commercial operation in the first quarter 2000. Jacobs
completed the front end dehnition of the project on an integrated team basis with Stockhausen late last year. Detailed design is underin Jacobs’ Southern way headquarters in Region Greenville, South Carolina. Jacobs subsidiary JE Merit Constructors Inc, supplemented by local subcontractors, will complete fieldwork.
PHILLIPS, SOLVAY TO SHARE US HDPE PLANT In response to increasing demand for high-density polyethylene (HDPE) in Phillips North America, Petroleum Company and Solvay Polymers Inc are to build and operate a US HDPE manufacturing facility that is expected to be the largest slurry loop reactor in the world. Phillips and Solvay Polymers each will own 50% of the 700 million pounds-per-year facility and will share the plant’s production of general purpose blow-moulded HDPE. The facility, expected to be operational in 2002, will be built on one of the companies’ existing US manufacturing sites. Phillips will provide the majority of the ethylene for the facility from its Sweeny, Texas complex. The companies also intend to build a similar shared facility for start up in 2005-2007, as the market dictates. The second facility will be located on a site belonging to the company not hosting the initial plant.
CMA RECOGNISES ENERGY EFFICIENCY The Chemical Manufacturers’ Association (CMA) is honouring eight chemical companies for their energy and efficiency projects improvements during 1998. Award recipients this year are BASF, Bayer, Eastman
1999
Chemical, Exxon Chemical, Nalco/Exxon Energy Chemicals, Texas Petrochemicals, UCB Chemicals and Vulcan Chemicals. The awards are presented annually as part of CMA’s Energy Efficiency Continuous Improvement Program (EECIP), a voluntary effort that helps CMA member companies improve energy efficiency, maintain and strengthen international competitiveness and minimise energy-related environmental impacts.
DUPONT EXPANDS IN CANADA DuPont is to invest C$51 million to expand its nylon operations Kingston, in Ontario. The will expansion increase the capacity of the nylon manufacturing facility by 35% and create more than 200 jobs in the Kingston area over the next 18 months. The facility, which adjoins the existing DuPont Canada plant in Kingston, will be ready for start-up by the end of next year.
FULLER SIGNS CLINKER DEAL Ash Grove Cement Company has selected Fuller to supply a new, complete 4200 tpd clinker production line for its plant at Chanute, Kansas, USA. The turnkey contract is worth nearly DKrl billion and covers the design, supply and construction of a new clinker production line to modemise and increase the production of the existing wet-process plant to 1.35 million tonnes per annum, which is three times the current output. Ground breaking for the new line will take place later this year, with the start-up scheduled for spring 200 1.
Pump Industry Analyst
American Water Works, which is the largest publicly-traded water company in the USA, to focus on a growing segment of the water and wastewater marketplace.
ADB LOAN FOR VIETNAM Urban infrastructure in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam will be upgraded with the help of a concessional US$70 million loan, approved by the Asian
Project is aimed at reducing environmental health hazards, improving living conditions economic sustaining and improved through growth infrastructure. Drainage and sewerage systems will be upgraded to prevent flooding in three of the city’s most densely populated districts and solid waste management will be improved. In addition, industrial pollution control and air quality monitoring will be improved. The Department of Transport and Public Works and the Department of Science, Technology and Environment will be the executing agencies for the project, due to be completed in December 2005.
SUEZ LYONNAISE EXPANDS IN CZECH REPUBLIC Strengthening its position in the Czech Republic, Lyonnaise des Eaux, the water management division of Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux, has extended a contract in Brno and signed a new deal in Horny Slovak for the provision of water and wastewater management services. Extended for a 25-year period, the existing contract in Brno provides for the water and wastewater management , ;;:;;I~:; the 420 000 city
The main objective for the future is to rehabilitate the existing wastewater treatment plant to meet the European Union environment regulation standards. The new contract signed in Horny Slovak provides for the water and wastewater management services for the city’s 9000 inhabitants. It includes the operation and management of the existing network and the construction of a water network extension.
BASF BUILDS MEXICAN PAPER COLOURANTS PLANT At its production site in Altamira, Mexico, BASF is beginning the construction of a new paper colourants production plant involving an investment of approximately US$20 million. The plant is scheduled to come on stream at the end of 2000 and will supply the NAFTA region in North America. The European market will still be supplied with paper colourants produced at BASF’s Ludwigshafen site in Germany.
JACOBS WINS STOCKHAUSEN PROJECT Jacobs Engineering Group Inc has received an engineering, procurement, and construction contract for a major expansion of Stockhausen Inc’s chemical facility in Greensboro, North Carolina. The US$35 million project involves the addition of a new process building and utility additions, as well as upgrades to the existing facility. The expanded facility should begin commercial operation in the first quarter 2000. Jacobs
completed the front end dehnition of the project on an integrated team basis with Stockhausen late last year. Detailed design is underin Jacobs’ Southern way headquarters in Region Greenville, South Carolina. Jacobs subsidiary JE Merit Constructors Inc, supplemented by local subcontractors, will complete fieldwork.
PHILLIPS, SOLVAY TO SHARE US HDPE PLANT In response to increasing demand for high-density polyethylene (HDPE) in Phillips North America, Petroleum Company and Solvay Polymers Inc are to build and operate a US HDPE manufacturing facility that is expected to be the largest slurry loop reactor in the world. Phillips and Solvay Polymers each will own 50% of the 700 million pounds-per-year facility and will share the plant’s production of general purpose blow-moulded HDPE. The facility, expected to be operational in 2002, will be built on one of the companies’ existing US manufacturing sites. Phillips will provide the majority of the ethylene for the facility from its Sweeny, Texas complex. The companies also intend to build a similar shared facility for start up in 2005-2007, as the market dictates. The second facility will be located on a site belonging to the company not hosting the initial plant.
CMA RECOGNISES ENERGY EFFICIENCY The Chemical Manufacturers’ Association (CMA) is honouring eight chemical companies for their energy and efficiency projects improvements during 1998. Award recipients this year are BASF, Bayer, Eastman
1999
Chemical, Exxon Chemical, Nalco/Exxon Energy Chemicals, Texas Petrochemicals, UCB Chemicals and Vulcan Chemicals. The awards are presented annually as part of CMA’s Energy Efficiency Continuous Improvement Program (EECIP), a voluntary effort that helps CMA member companies improve energy efficiency, maintain and strengthen international competitiveness and minimise energy-related environmental impacts.
DUPONT EXPANDS IN CANADA DuPont is to invest C$51 million to expand its nylon operations Kingston, in Ontario. The will expansion increase the capacity of the nylon manufacturing facility by 35% and create more than 200 jobs in the Kingston area over the next 18 months. The facility, which adjoins the existing DuPont Canada plant in Kingston, will be ready for start-up by the end of next year.
FULLER SIGNS CLINKER DEAL Ash Grove Cement Company has selected Fuller to supply a new, complete 4200 tpd clinker production line for its plant at Chanute, Kansas, USA. The turnkey contract is worth nearly DKrl billion and covers the design, supply and construction of a new clinker production line to modemise and increase the production of the existing wet-process plant to 1.35 million tonnes per annum, which is three times the current output. Ground breaking for the new line will take place later this year, with the start-up scheduled for spring 200 1.