Lummus Technology has been awarded a contract by LUKOIL Permnefteorgsintez for a new integrated MTBE and alkylation plant at LUKOIL's refinery in Perm, Russia, using its CD Etherol and CD Alky technologies. The award was announced on 14 January 2022.

Burckhardt Compression signed a contract to equip three EVA and LDPE production lines at Jiangsu Hongjing New Material's petrochemical mega-plant in Lianyungang, China, with Booster-Primary and Hyper Compressors. The plant will have an output of 600 kilotons per year of EVA/LDPE. The contract value was not disclosed.

Tereos signed a strategic supply agreement with Avantium Renewable Polymers to supply 100% of the wheat-derived F95 high-fructose syrup needed to make FDCA for bio-based PEF packaging. The initial volume is 5,000 tons.

MAN Energy Solutions subsidiary DWE won an order from Wanhua Chemical to deliver three salt-operated reactor systems for a new maleic anhydride plant in China, with an overall capacity of 200,000 tons per year. The plant produces PBAT for biodegradable plastics.

VA Tech Wabag secured an engineering and procurement order worth USD 165 million from Amur Gas Chemical Complex in Russia, a SIBUR and Sinopec joint venture. Wabag will supply the integrated wastewater treatment facilities with zero liquid discharge.

Maire Tecnimont subsidiary Tecnimont won a lump-sum turnkey contract from Repsol worth about €430 million to build polypropylene and linear polyethylene units at Repsol's Sines complex in Portugal, due for completion by 2025.

A Maire Tecnimont and Tecnimont Private consortium was awarded a lump-sum EPCC contract by Indian Oil Corporation worth about $170 million for a 200,000 tons per year polypropylene plant at the Barauni Refinery in Bihar, with a 30-month schedule.

Cove signed an exclusive five-year agreement to receive 350 million pounds of RWDC Industries' PHA biopolymer for its biodegradable water bottles. The deal supports Cove's planned first product launch later in 2021.

Avantium Renewable Polymers signed two additional conditional offtake agreements for PEF resin with Toyobo and Terphane, bringing the total to four contracts, which together cover 30% of the planned flagship FDCA plant's capacity. Refresco is also among the offtake partners.

Johnson Matthey signed a substantial deal to supply membrane-electrode assemblies to German direct methanol fuel cell maker SFC Energy. No value was disclosed in the article.

Lummus Technology was awarded a contract by Enter Engineering for four SRT VI and VII cracking furnaces at the Shurtan Gas Chemical Complex in Uzbekistan, which will more than double its ethylene production.

China's JDB Group selected PPG INNOVEL non-BPA coatings for beverage cans for its Jia Duo Bao herbal tea, after testing against Chinese and international food contact standards.

Johnson Matthey won a contract from Technoleasing, part of ESN Group, to license its combined reforming methanol technology and Advanced Series Loop for a 3,000 mtpd methanol plant in Skovorodino, Amur Oblast, Russia. The contract includes engineering, equipment and catalyst supply and is subject to a final investment decision by Technoleasing.

Samson Ringo completed factory acceptance testing of 3595 angle control valves for antisurge service in the ethane cracking plant of a petrochemical complex. The valves were custom-sized to replace existing units and showed an opening time of 0.8 seconds.

KBR was awarded a contract by Hainan Huasheng New Material to license Mitsubishi Chemical's BPA technology and provide engineering design for a 240,000 tons per annum plant in Dongfang City, Hainan Province.

Veolia Water Technologies won a contract from Lee & Man to supply its HPD Enhanced Chloride Removal Process at the company's pulp mill in Chongqing, China, to treat precipitator ash and reduce chloride and potassium.

Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company awarded Honeywell UOP the reconfiguration of the refining and petrochemicals sections of its Al-Zour refinery, including technology, design, key equipment and catalysts. The announcement is dated July 24, 2019.

Ampo Poyam Valves will design and manufacture electric actuated gate valves for Gulf Coast Growth Ventures' chemical facility in San Patricio County, Texas. Construction starts in Q3 2019 with start-up expected by 2022.

Newway Valve and Wanhua Chemical signed a centralized valve procurement agreement for Wanhua's US MDI integrated project in Louisiana, with a total investment of $1.25 billion and design capacity of 400,000 tonnes per year, during a ceremony at Yantai.

Phu My Plastics Production JSC will use Honeywell UOP propane dehydrogenation technology to produce polymer-grade propylene at its plant in Vung Tau Province, Viet Nam, with expected output of 306,000 tonnes per year.

Fluor Corporation won the engineering, procurement and construction management contract for Valvoline's new blending and packaging facility in Zhangjiagang, China, its first plant in China. The contract value was undisclosed, and the plant will produce over 30 million gallons of lubricants and coolants a year.

ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions will provide the dual-pressure ammonia process license and engineering, supply and monitoring services for Ma'aden's new Phosphate 3 ammonia plant near Ras Al Khair, as a subcontractor to Daelim. The plant with 3,300 tons per day capacity is scheduled for completion in early 2022.

McDermott's Lummus Technology was awarded a technology contract by HPCL Rajasthan Refinery for the license and basic engineering of two 490 KTA polypropylene plants in Barmer District, Rajasthan, India. The award was reflected in McDermott's third quarter 2018 backlog.

Air Products has been awarded additional gaseous nitrogen and hydrogen supply for Samsung Electronics' Giheung fab in South Korea. It will build a new air separation unit, several hydrogen plants and pipelines, scheduled to be operational in 2020.

Samsung Engineering approached AMPO POYAM Valves to design and manufacture more than 4,000 gate and globe valves for PTT Global Chemical's olefins reconfiguration plant in Map Ta Phut, Rayong, Thailand. The plant is expected to start operations in early 2021, with an investment of 820 million.

Samsung Engineering selected Ampo Poyam Valves to supply more than 4,000 gate and globe valves for PTT Global Chemical's olefins reconfiguration project in Map Ta Phut, Rayong, Thailand. The project is valued at up to $820 million and expected to start in early 2021.

SNC-Lavalin and its joint venture partner JV Driver were awarded a lump-sum EPC contract by INEOS Oligomers to design and build a polyalphaolefin unit at Chocolate Bayou, Texas. The unit is expected online in October 2019 with 120,000 metric tons per annum capacity.

SNC-Lavalin, in consortium with TechnipFMC, was awarded a lump sum EPC contract by NOVA Chemicals for two gas cracking furnaces at its Corunna cracker in Canada. The award supports a third phase expanding the unit's ethylene capacity by more than 50%.

Sunshield Chemicals entered a supply agreement with Elantas GmbH Germany to supply THEIC product through 31 December 2020, worth about Rs 28 crore over 12 months.

KACE Valve was awarded a contract by Linde AG to supply automated severe service metal seated ball valves for Braskem America's polypropylene plant under construction in La Porte, Texas.

Samson's Surgut unit will supply large-diameter pipeline valves for the ZapSibNeftekhim petrochemical complex being built by SIBUR in Tobolsk, Russia. Total contracts with Russian suppliers for the project exceed 220 billion rubles.

UK public purchasing body ESPO awarded West Design Products Limited a framework contract worth GBP 12,000,000 for the supply of glues, adhesives and adhesive tapes to its general warehouse and customers. The award was published on 21 October 2017.

Neste Jacobs has signed an EPCM services contract for an upgrade and expansion of Haltermann Carless's production site in Speyer, Germany, including a NExSAT hydrogenation unit targeted for production by end-2018. The value was not disclosed.

Yokogawa Electric Korea received an order to supply 15 analyser houses and 75 GC8000 gas chromatographs for the Liwa Plastics Industries Complex in Sohar, Oman, being built for Orpic; the complex is scheduled to start operation in 1Q20.

EcoSynthetix secured a commercial contract with Stora Enso to supply its EcoSphere biolatex binder for packaging board formulations at one of Stora Enso's major European mills.

Wood Group has been awarded a three-year contract worth $8 million to provide process automation engineering services as main automation contractor to TPC Group's Texas and Louisiana facilities.

SOCAR GPC selected Univation's UNIPOL PE technology and XCAT metallocene technology for a world-scale 600,000 tpy polyethylene plant to be built in Garadagh, Azerbaijan, with Linde Engineering completing the basic engineering design package.

Scientific Design Company was selected by Indian Oil Corporation to supply its MEG technology for a complex in Paradip, Odisha, India, with a capacity of 180 KTA of ethylene. The award includes process licensing, design package, proprietary equipment and catalyst.

Borealis selected Honeywell UOP's C3 Oleflex process technology for a proposed plant in Kallo, Belgium, targeting 740,000 metric tons per year of polymer-grade propylene, with final investment decision expected in Q3 2018.

Grannus LLC selected Haldor Topsoe to license ammonia loop, shift catalyst and sulfur guard technologies and provide engineering services for its 250 short tpd ammonia plant in Kern County, California, due to be operational in 2019.

Parcol was awarded a contract in October 2016 to supply critical angle valves for the 40,000 MTPA melamine plant of Gujarat State Fertilizers & Chemicals at Vadodara, India. The project is due for commissioning by Q3 FY 2017-18.