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was 157 000 metric tons of coated groundwood paper. The Blandin mill will continue to operate its two newer machines, PM 5, built in 1975, and PM 6, built in 1989.
MARKET PROSPECTS
B&W AWARDED C$20M CONTRACT FOR ELK FALLS Babcock & Wilcox Canada Ltd has been awarded a contract valued in excess of C$20 million as part of Norske Skog Canada Ltd’s No 2 Recovery Boiler modernization project at its Elk Falls Division in Campbell River, British Columbia. The original recovery boiler was supplied by B&W Canada in the mid-1960s, and has been the workhorse of the pulp mill ever since. NorskeCanada has embarked on a modernization project to upgrade the steam and recovery plant to meet the demands of an ever-increasing competitive marketplace. The project includes engineering, procurement, manufacturing, transportation, demolition and construction. B&W Canada will provide a new membrane furnace, primary and secondary superheaters and auxiliary equipment. The boiler start-up is scheduled for March 2004.
PHARMACEUTICALS TAKEDA TO BUILD API PLANT Foster Wheeler, in association with IshikawajimaHarima Heavy Industries Co Ltd, has won an engineering, procurement and construction contract for a new active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) plant currently being built in Dublin, Ireland, for Japan’s Takeda Chemical Industries Ltd.
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The new plant will produce the active ingredients for drugs to be used in clinical trials, as well as ACTOS, the brand name for pioglitazone hydrochloride, which is used to treat diabetes and is currently being processed by Takeda at its Irish pharmaceutical finishing plant in Bray, Co Wicklow. The 80 million contract will involve the design and construction of a new facility on a 20-acre greenfield site. Construction has already started with mechanical completion expected next year.
CHEMICALS DOW TO CLOSE PET PLANT IN PISTICCI, ITALY The Dow Chemical Co is permanently shutting down its polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plant in Pisticci, Matera, Italy, by the end of the first quarter 2003. The company says current unfavourable market conditions and the global economic environment have forced it to concentrate on facilities that offer optimum efficiencies and world-scale capabilities. The Pisticci plant has a capacity to produce 60 000 MT of PET per annum, compared with an average capacity of more than 150 000 MT at newer plants.
SHAW TO CONSTRUCT SINGLE-TRAIN PMDI FACILITY Shaw Constructors Inc has been awarded a contract by the Dow Chemical Co for the construction of a polymeric methylene diisocyanate (PMDI) facility in Freeport, Texas. When completed, the plant will be the largest single-train
capacity PMDI facility in the world. Shaw’s scope includes erection of structural steel, setting of major mechanical equipment and the installation of process piping to be supplied by Shaw. The project started in January, and has an anticipated completion date of February 2004.
PETROCHEMICALS FW WINS LINEAR ALKYL BENZENE CONTRACT IN QATAR Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd, UK has secured a contract from Qatar Petroleum for front-end engineering design and project management consultancy for a new linear alkyl benzene (LAB) plant in Qatar. The new plant will have the capacity to produce approximately 88 000 tons per year (tpy) of n-paraffin and 110 000 tpy of LAB. It will be built within the Qatar Petroleum Refinery battery limits to benefit from using the existing utilities such as electric power and cooling water, to reduce the project’s capital costs. The US$240 million fasttrack project is scheduled to be commissioned during the fourth quarter of 2005.
LNG TRAIN PLANNED FOR OMAN The Oman Government has awarded Chiyoda-Foster Wheeler and Co LLC a contract for the detailed engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) train at Qalhat, near Sur, Oman. The contract includes construction of additional LNG storage facilities as an option. The new LNG train will be built next to the
existing Oman LNG Complex at Qalhat, where two identical LNG trains, each with a capacity of 3.3 million tons per year, have been operating since early 2000. It is expected to be on stream by the end of 2005.
POWER GENERATION TECHNIPCOFLEXIP TO UPGRADE GERMAN PLANTS RWE Systems AG has awarded Technip-Coflexip a lumpsum turnkey contract, valued at about 41 million, to increase efficiency in two existing natural-gas-fired cogeneration plants in Bochum and Dortmund, Germany. Technip-Coflexip’s scope of work covers design, mechanical and electrical equipment supply, dismantling of existing parts, erection of new parts and commissioning of the upgraded plants. The project, to be handled by Technip-Coflexip’s engineering centre in Dusseldorf, will be carried out simultaneously at both locations, with the two plants running practically non-stop. Completion is scheduled for March 2004.
SHIPBUILDING SAMSUNG BOOKS MORE ORDERS Samsung Heavy Industries has received orders for eight ships worth US$580 million. The orders include an LNG carrier for Qatar’s Ras Laffan LNG Co Ltd (RasGas), five container vessels for Canada’s Seaspan Container Lines Ltd and two product carriers for Italy’s Euroceanica CTGM SA.
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was 157 000 metric tons of coated groundwood paper. The Blandin mill will continue to operate its two newer machines, PM 5, built in 1975, and PM 6, built in 1989.
MARKET PROSPECTS
B&W AWARDED C$20M CONTRACT FOR ELK FALLS Babcock & Wilcox Canada Ltd has been awarded a contract valued in excess of C$20 million as part of Norske Skog Canada Ltd’s No 2 Recovery Boiler modernization project at its Elk Falls Division in Campbell River, British Columbia. The original recovery boiler was supplied by B&W Canada in the mid-1960s, and has been the workhorse of the pulp mill ever since. NorskeCanada has embarked on a modernization project to upgrade the steam and recovery plant to meet the demands of an ever-increasing competitive marketplace. The project includes engineering, procurement, manufacturing, transportation, demolition and construction. B&W Canada will provide a new membrane furnace, primary and secondary superheaters and auxiliary equipment. The boiler start-up is scheduled for March 2004.
PHARMACEUTICALS TAKEDA TO BUILD API PLANT Foster Wheeler, in association with IshikawajimaHarima Heavy Industries Co Ltd, has won an engineering, procurement and construction contract for a new active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) plant currently being built in Dublin, Ireland, for Japan’s Takeda Chemical Industries Ltd.
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February 2003
The new plant will produce the active ingredients for drugs to be used in clinical trials, as well as ACTOS, the brand name for pioglitazone hydrochloride, which is used to treat diabetes and is currently being processed by Takeda at its Irish pharmaceutical finishing plant in Bray, Co Wicklow. The 80 million contract will involve the design and construction of a new facility on a 20-acre greenfield site. Construction has already started with mechanical completion expected next year.
CHEMICALS DOW TO CLOSE PET PLANT IN PISTICCI, ITALY The Dow Chemical Co is permanently shutting down its polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plant in Pisticci, Matera, Italy, by the end of the first quarter 2003. The company says current unfavourable market conditions and the global economic environment have forced it to concentrate on facilities that offer optimum efficiencies and world-scale capabilities. The Pisticci plant has a capacity to produce 60 000 MT of PET per annum, compared with an average capacity of more than 150 000 MT at newer plants.
SHAW TO CONSTRUCT SINGLE-TRAIN PMDI FACILITY Shaw Constructors Inc has been awarded a contract by the Dow Chemical Co for the construction of a polymeric methylene diisocyanate (PMDI) facility in Freeport, Texas. When completed, the plant will be the largest single-train
capacity PMDI facility in the world. Shaw’s scope includes erection of structural steel, setting of major mechanical equipment and the installation of process piping to be supplied by Shaw. The project started in January, and has an anticipated completion date of February 2004.
PETROCHEMICALS FW WINS LINEAR ALKYL BENZENE CONTRACT IN QATAR Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd, UK has secured a contract from Qatar Petroleum for front-end engineering design and project management consultancy for a new linear alkyl benzene (LAB) plant in Qatar. The new plant will have the capacity to produce approximately 88 000 tons per year (tpy) of n-paraffin and 110 000 tpy of LAB. It will be built within the Qatar Petroleum Refinery battery limits to benefit from using the existing utilities such as electric power and cooling water, to reduce the project’s capital costs. The US$240 million fasttrack project is scheduled to be commissioned during the fourth quarter of 2005.
LNG TRAIN PLANNED FOR OMAN The Oman Government has awarded Chiyoda-Foster Wheeler and Co LLC a contract for the detailed engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) train at Qalhat, near Sur, Oman. The contract includes construction of additional LNG storage facilities as an option. The new LNG train will be built next to the
existing Oman LNG Complex at Qalhat, where two identical LNG trains, each with a capacity of 3.3 million tons per year, have been operating since early 2000. It is expected to be on stream by the end of 2005.
POWER GENERATION TECHNIPCOFLEXIP TO UPGRADE GERMAN PLANTS RWE Systems AG has awarded Technip-Coflexip a lumpsum turnkey contract, valued at about 41 million, to increase efficiency in two existing natural-gas-fired cogeneration plants in Bochum and Dortmund, Germany. Technip-Coflexip’s scope of work covers design, mechanical and electrical equipment supply, dismantling of existing parts, erection of new parts and commissioning of the upgraded plants. The project, to be handled by Technip-Coflexip’s engineering centre in Dusseldorf, will be carried out simultaneously at both locations, with the two plants running practically non-stop. Completion is scheduled for March 2004.
SHIPBUILDING SAMSUNG BOOKS MORE ORDERS Samsung Heavy Industries has received orders for eight ships worth US$580 million. The orders include an LNG carrier for Qatar’s Ras Laffan LNG Co Ltd (RasGas), five container vessels for Canada’s Seaspan Container Lines Ltd and two product carriers for Italy’s Euroceanica CTGM SA.