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MARKET PROSPECTS PHARMACEUTICALS
BASF expands ibuprofen production in Germany and North America
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ASF is planning to build a new world-scale plant to produce ibuprofen in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The new facility, which will be the first world-scale ibuprofen plant in Europe, is scheduled to come onstream in 2021. BASF is also expanding its ibuprofen capacity at its production site in Bishop, Texas, USA by early 2018. BASF is investing approximately E200 million in the two projects.
POWER GENERATION
Amec Foster Wheeler to run UK nuclear power research initiative
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mec Foster Wheeler has been appointed by the UK government to lead a new nuclear power research programme. Under a £2.9 million contract from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Amec Foster Wheeler will set up and run a UK Digital Reactor Design partnership that will use virtual engineering and high-performance computing to enhance the techniques used to design reactors and optimise their performance. Amec Foster Wheeler will work with partners and sub-contractors from industry, academia and science, including the University of Liverpool’s Virtual Engineering Centre, the Hartree Centre, National Nuclear Laboratory, Rolls-Royce, EDF Energy, the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London.
New CCPP planned for Warsaw
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oland’s PGNiG Termika SA and a consortium of Mitsubishi Hitachi
July 2017
Power Systems companies and Polimex-Mostostal SA have signed a contract for the delivery and assembly of a combined cycle power plant (CCPP) at the Żerań CHP Plant in Warsaw. The new plant, which will be the most modern CCPP in Poland, is scheduled to be handed over for operation in 2020.
PT Indonesia Power awards CCPP project to Marubeni/GE consortium
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consortium of Marubeni Corp, General Electric and PT Hutama Karya (HK) has been awarded a ¥41 billion EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contract for PT Indonesia Power’s Tambak Lorok Combined Cycle Power Plant Block 3 Project in Indonesia. The 780 MW power plant in Semarang, Central Java will be the largest power project developed by Indonesia Power. It is expected to be completed in 2020. The Marubeni/GE/HK consortium will undertake engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning for the full turn-key project. Marubeni will provide the balance of plant equipment including a heat recovery steam generator and install all of the equipment in the plant. The main equipment such as a gas turbine, steam turbine and generator will be provided by GE, while HK will undertake civil construction.
WATER & WASTEWATER
Acciona starts operating New Cairo water supply system
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cciona Agua has started operating the upstream water supply infrastructure in New Cairo, a satellite city about 30 km east of the Egyptian capital. The process includes taking water from the River Nile, piping it to the 500 000 m3/ day New Cairo drinking water treatment
plant, processing it and then storing the water for distribution to end users. The piping system, with a capacity to carry 1 million m3 per day, comprises two 42-km water mains each with a diameter of 2.6 m, and four pumping stations. The four-year contract is worth about E35 million.
De.mem establishes Singapore membrane production facility
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e.mem Ltd has opened a facility in Singapore to produce hollow fibre membranes and membrane modules for industrial and municipal wastewater projects. At the new facility, Singapore-based wastewater treatment company De.mem will produce its proprietary filtration technology – the low-pressure hollow fibre nanofiltration (NF) membrane which was developed at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU). The technology, which NTU exclusively licenced to De.mem in June 2016, is said to allow for lower operating cost and reduced investment relative to other water treatment technologies. The new De.mem facility located in Woodlands has the capacity to produce membranes as well as industry standard 4-inch and 8-inch membrane modules at volumes which are sufficient for small-scale commercial projects. It will also be possible to manufacture other types of hollow fibre membranes at the new site. De.mem is currently preparing for pilot testing at select customer sites ahead of planned commercial market launch of the technology later this year.
Emefcy and RWL Water merge and form Fluence
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mefcy Group Ltd and RWL Water LLC have completed their merger and formed Fluence Corp Ltd. Fluence has been established with the vision of becoming the leading global provider of fast-to-deploy decentralized and packaged water and wastewater treatment
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BASF expands ibuprofen production in Germany and North America
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ASF is planning to build a new world-scale plant to produce ibuprofen in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The new facility, which will be the first world-scale ibuprofen plant in Europe, is scheduled to come onstream in 2021. BASF is also expanding its ibuprofen capacity at its production site in Bishop, Texas, USA by early 2018. BASF is investing approximately E200 million in the two projects.
POWER GENERATION
Amec Foster Wheeler to run UK nuclear power research initiative
A
mec Foster Wheeler has been appointed by the UK government to lead a new nuclear power research programme. Under a £2.9 million contract from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Amec Foster Wheeler will set up and run a UK Digital Reactor Design partnership that will use virtual engineering and high-performance computing to enhance the techniques used to design reactors and optimise their performance. Amec Foster Wheeler will work with partners and sub-contractors from industry, academia and science, including the University of Liverpool’s Virtual Engineering Centre, the Hartree Centre, National Nuclear Laboratory, Rolls-Royce, EDF Energy, the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London.
New CCPP planned for Warsaw
P
oland’s PGNiG Termika SA and a consortium of Mitsubishi Hitachi
July 2017
Power Systems companies and Polimex-Mostostal SA have signed a contract for the delivery and assembly of a combined cycle power plant (CCPP) at the Żerań CHP Plant in Warsaw. The new plant, which will be the most modern CCPP in Poland, is scheduled to be handed over for operation in 2020.
PT Indonesia Power awards CCPP project to Marubeni/GE consortium
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consortium of Marubeni Corp, General Electric and PT Hutama Karya (HK) has been awarded a ¥41 billion EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contract for PT Indonesia Power’s Tambak Lorok Combined Cycle Power Plant Block 3 Project in Indonesia. The 780 MW power plant in Semarang, Central Java will be the largest power project developed by Indonesia Power. It is expected to be completed in 2020. The Marubeni/GE/HK consortium will undertake engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning for the full turn-key project. Marubeni will provide the balance of plant equipment including a heat recovery steam generator and install all of the equipment in the plant. The main equipment such as a gas turbine, steam turbine and generator will be provided by GE, while HK will undertake civil construction.
WATER & WASTEWATER
Acciona starts operating New Cairo water supply system
A
cciona Agua has started operating the upstream water supply infrastructure in New Cairo, a satellite city about 30 km east of the Egyptian capital. The process includes taking water from the River Nile, piping it to the 500 000 m3/ day New Cairo drinking water treatment
plant, processing it and then storing the water for distribution to end users. The piping system, with a capacity to carry 1 million m3 per day, comprises two 42-km water mains each with a diameter of 2.6 m, and four pumping stations. The four-year contract is worth about E35 million.
De.mem establishes Singapore membrane production facility
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e.mem Ltd has opened a facility in Singapore to produce hollow fibre membranes and membrane modules for industrial and municipal wastewater projects. At the new facility, Singapore-based wastewater treatment company De.mem will produce its proprietary filtration technology – the low-pressure hollow fibre nanofiltration (NF) membrane which was developed at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU). The technology, which NTU exclusively licenced to De.mem in June 2016, is said to allow for lower operating cost and reduced investment relative to other water treatment technologies. The new De.mem facility located in Woodlands has the capacity to produce membranes as well as industry standard 4-inch and 8-inch membrane modules at volumes which are sufficient for small-scale commercial projects. It will also be possible to manufacture other types of hollow fibre membranes at the new site. De.mem is currently preparing for pilot testing at select customer sites ahead of planned commercial market launch of the technology later this year.
Emefcy and RWL Water merge and form Fluence
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mefcy Group Ltd and RWL Water LLC have completed their merger and formed Fluence Corp Ltd. Fluence has been established with the vision of becoming the leading global provider of fast-to-deploy decentralized and packaged water and wastewater treatment
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