Kobe Steel Ltd.(CONTRACT NEWS)

Zippe has been involved in many batch plant projects with glassmakers all over the world. It designed, installed and delivered a batch plant, wet sand storage facilities, internal cullet recycling plant, batch and cullet transport and batch chargers for Gruppo Sangali's new Manfredonia Vetro factory in Italy. This turnkey project ......

Caterpillar, Inc. (Oxford, MA) has selected Quaker Chemical Corp. (Conshohocken, PA) as the management services providerfor Caterpillar's manufacturing plant. Under the contract, Quaker will be responsible for optimization of the application of all process and maintenance chemicals used in the manufacturing process at the plant. Quaker is also responsible for ......

Qasco at Umm Said is owned by QP, having bought out the 20% stake of Kobe Steel and 10% share of Tokyo Boeki in late May 1997 (thus ending a 22-year association with the two Japanese firms). Based on a direct reduction process, Qasco's capacity was raised from 500,000 t/y ......

Al-Khafji Joint Operations, a 50:50 JV of Kuwait Gulf Oil Co. and Saudi Aramco's Aramco Gulf Operations working in the Divided Zone (DZ), was on Oct. 12 to receive a proposal for an integrated mega-project from a group of investors led by Kuwait Finance House (KFH). This calls for a ......

BOC Gases, the industrial and special gases business of The BOC Group, will supply cylinder gases and on-site cylinder management services to the first manufacturing facility of TwinStar Semiconductor Incorporated - a joint venture between Texas Instruments and Hitachi. With this award, BOC will be the sole, supplier of industrial ......

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Mining company cleveland-cliffs of the U.S. and joint-venture partner Kobe Steel of Japan will construct a commercial-scale iron nugget production facility at the Empire Mine in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Production of the 500,000 ton-year plant is expected to begin commercial operation by early 2010. The new facility in Palmer, Mich., ......