Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract for New Refinery in Libya

Foster Wheeler Ltd. announced that its Milan-based subsidiary Foster Wheeler Italiana S.p.A., part of its Global Engineering and Construction Group, has been awarded a contract by Zwara Oil Refinery Company Limited (ZORCO) for consultancy and project management services for a planned new 200,000 barrels per stream day crude oil refinery at Mellita, near Zwara, in the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. ZORCO is a project company in... Read more..

Foster Wheeler Awarded Coal-to-Liquids Feasibility Study in China

Foster Wheeler Ltd. announced that its subsidiaries, Foster Wheeler Energy Limited and Foster Wheeler International Engineering & Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., together with its consortium partner, Wuhuan Engineering Company, have been awarded contracts by Sasol Synfuels International (Proprietary) Limited (Sasol) and Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group Company Ltd. (Shenhua) to perform a feasibility study for an 80,000 barrels per day coal-to-liquids... Read more..

Yingli Green Energy Announces Business Update

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited, one of the world’s leading vertically integrated photovoltaic product manufacturers, today announces that the Company has signed a 36.8 MW PV module sales contract with S.A.G. Solarstrom AG and that it has completed the installation and trial production of an additional 200 MW of annual manufacturing capacity of each of PV polysilicon ingots and wafers, PV cells and PV modules. 36.8 MW Sales Contract... Read more..

Foster Wheeler Enters into License Contract for Advanced Pulverized-Coal Technology in Korea

Foster Wheeler Ltd. announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has entered into a fifteen-year agreement with Bumwoo ENG Co., Ltd. to provide an advanced technology license for wall-fired subcritical and supercritical pulverized-coal (PC) steam generators to be sold in South Korea. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed. The contract value will be included in the company’s third-quarter 2008 bookings and future royalty payments... Read more..

The Linde Group opens the first hydrogen filling station for fuel cell passenger ships

The technology company The Linde Group has today officially opened the world’s first hydrogen filling station for fuel cell passenger ships in Hamburg. Wolfgang Tiefensee, Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs was in attendance for this “Zemship-related” grand opening, an EU-sponsored project for the development of fuel cell ships. ADVERTISEMENT “As a pioneer in hydrogen technology, we want to make environmentally-friendly,... Read more..

Veeco Introduces High Throughput “FastFlex” Web Coating Platform For Production of Flexible Thin Film Solar Cells

Veeco Instruments Inc., announced the introduction of its FastFlex™ line of Web Coating Systems ideally suited for manufacturing CIGS solar cells (those using copper, indium, gallium and selenium). Veeco’s advanced FastFlex web deposition platform offers high throughput and excellent performance for flexible thin film solar cell production, contributing to a lower cost of ownership, due to its high quantity of deposition zones in a compact footprint. Piero... Read more..

Foster Wheeler Awarded Conceptual & Basic Design of New Alcon Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plant in Singapore

Foster Wheeler Ltd. announced today that its U.S. subsidiary, Biokinetics, Inc., along with Foster Wheeler’s Singapore office, both part of its Global Engineering and Construction Group, has been awarded a contract by Alcon Laboratories Inc. to provide engineering and architectural services for the conceptual and basic design of its new 250,000 square foot manufacturing facility to be located in the Tuas Biomedical Park in Singapore. The plant... Read more..