INVISTA completed a $1-billion plant in Shanghai, China, to produce the chemical ADN, a nylon precursor. The project was delivered in 44 months by Fluor Enterprises.
Bombardier and its partners (Balfour Beatty, ACS Infrastructure, Fluor Enterprises) have been awarded a US$4.9 billion contract to build and operate a passenger transit system at Los Angeles International Airport. Bombardier's portion includes a US$219 million order to design and build the system with 44 INNOVIA automated vehicles.
Chevron Phillips Chemical opened new polyethylene units in Old Ocean, Texas, with a capacity of 1,000,000 metric tons per year. The units are part of a $6 billion US Gulf Coast petrochemicals project that also includes an ethane cracker at Cedar Bayou.